Paul McCartney: 40 career highlights on his birthday

On former Beatle Paul McCartney's 70th birthday, here are 40 memorable moments from his musical life.

23. 'Things We Said Today' ('A Hard Day's Night,' 1964)

A criminally underheard track from Hard Day's Night, this sombre McCartney tune wonders aloud what his future with a lover (Jane Asher) might hold. Paul said about it, "I wrote this on acoustic. It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia. We’ll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future." Whatever it means, it's gorgeous, especially the bridge:

Someday when we're dreaming,
Deep in love, not a lot to say.
Then we will remember
Things we said today.

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