Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now is a 1997 biography of Paul McCartney by Barry Miles. It is the "official" biography of McCartney and was written "based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews undertaken over a period of five years", according to the back cover of the 1998 paperback edition. The title is a phrase from McCartney's song "When I'm Sixty-Four", from the Beatles' 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The book was first published in the United Kingdom in October 1997 by Secker & Warburg. McCartney and Miles began working
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