Editing When I'm Sixty-Four (section)

==Legacy==
On the occasion of McCartney's 64th birthday in June 2006, a month after the singer's separation from his wife [[Heather Mills]], [[Paul Vallely]] of ''[[The Independent]]'' wrote an appreciation that focused on the song's message. Describing McCartney's birthday as "a cultural milestone for a generation", Vallely said the widespread support for McCartney and corresponding derision of Mills "tells us more about us than it does about her".<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Vallely|title=Paul McCartney: When I'm 64|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/paul-mccartney-when-i-m-64-6097989.html|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=1 April 2009|access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref> To mark the occasion, McCartney's grandchildren recorded a new version of "When I'm Sixty-Four" for him at Abbey Road.<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Lewis|title=Now He's 64 ... Grandchildren sing for Sir Paul|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jun/19/arts.artsnews|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=19 June 2006|access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref> In ''The New York Times'', [[Sam Roberts (newspaper journalist)|Sam Roberts]] likened McCartney's failure to fulfil the song's promise of retirement-age contentment with Mills to America's divorce rates and other socioeconomic problems afflicting citizens in their sixties.<ref>{{cite news|first=Sam|last=Roberts|title=So Paul McCartney Is 64. Now What?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/arts/music/17paul.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 June 2006|access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref>