Sideshow: Sir Paul on approach to 70

February 16, 2012|By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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  • Paul McCartney performing Sunday during the Grammy Awards.
  • Paul McCartney performing Sunday during the Grammy Awards. (MATT SAYLES / Associated…)
  • Lindsay Lohan, whom the IRS cracked for failing to pay 2009 federal taxes, also forgot about 2010. The tab's rising. (EVAN AGOSTINI / Associated…)

Paul McCartney turns 70 in June, yet the Beatle rocks on.

He says he has already beaten the odds. "You really don't want to go beyond 50," a former manager once told him. "It's going to get embarrassing." So recounts Sir Paul in the March issue of Rolling Stone, a mag founded by kids who thought it was all over at 30.

"I'm never going to believe I'm 70, I don't care what you say," Paul says. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that." The singer, who plans to continue recording and touring, says it's simple: "If you're enjoying it, why do something else? And what would you do?" Can Paul see himself jamming onstage at 80? "I can imagine it . . . rocking on until a grand old age. . . . The only thing would be when it's not pleasant anymore," he says.

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"But it's way too pleasant at the moment. And it pays. Good gig, man. But I know exactly where you're coming from, though. How long can this go on?"

Lindsay Lohan, who last month was hit with a tax lien of $93,701.57 for failing to pay her 2009 federal taxes, has been bitten again by the jaws of the IRS. E! News reports that the IRS has filed a second lien against LiLo, for failing to pay 2010 taxes.

Already in a hole for the $93 grand, LiLo now owes an additional $140,203.30.

"Lohan's business manager," Lindsay rep Steve Honig tells E! News, "is working out an acceptable arrangement with the IRS."

 

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