PAUL McCARTNEY CELEBRATES his 70th birthday today, though he doesn’t look a day over 64 if you ask us. So here are seven things you may or may not already know about the Beatles star.

1. Paul McCartney is in the Guinness Book of Records with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million singles.
2. He wrote his first song, “I’ve Lost My Little Girl” when he was just 14.
3. As a boy, he was an amateur bird-watcher and owned a beloved bird field guide. This would later inspire him to write the song “Blackbird”.
4. Since 1966, many die-hard Beatles fans believe Paul died and was replaced by a lookalike. The rumour is still alive today, as is Paul.
5. On occasion he jokingly uses the pseudonym of ‘Apollo C Vermouth’. This was first used because his record contract prevented him from using his real name when producing an album for novelty music group The Bonzos.
6. In 1980 he was arrested and briefly jailed in Japan for carrying marijuana. He was also fined in the 1970s for possession and for growing marijuana on his Scotland farm.
7. Paul was made an honorary detective by the New York City Police Department for the benefit concert he gave for 9/11 victims, April 2002.

Here’s a few images of Paul through the years. Happy Birthday Macca!