{"id":242437,"date":"2026-05-26T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/sir-paul-mccartney-compares-taylor-swift-to-the-beatles\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:00:17","slug":"sir-paul-mccartney-compares-taylor-swift-to-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/sir-paul-mccartney-compares-taylor-swift-to-the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Paul McCartney compares Taylor Swift to the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-05-26\" datetime=\"1779807617\" pubdate=\"\">26 May 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Sir Paul McCartney has compared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;worldwide fame&#8221; to the fan frenzy of Beatlemania.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sir Paul McCartney has spoken about Taylor Swift<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles legend has given his thoughts on the Opalite singer&#8217;s career so far and admitted he can see a &#8220;parallel&#8221; between Taylor and his band because she has achieved a level of fame comparable to the hysteria which surrounded the Fab Four in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on BBC show Tracks Of My Years, Paul was asked if he would give any advice to Taylor and he replied: &#8221; You do see the parallel, you know the fame and the amount of fame and the worldwide fame that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has and that we had, but I don&#8217;t think she needs any advice to tell you the truth &#8230; If she asked for it, I definitely would. I&#8217;m like the older brother to that generation, or more like the granddad, actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul went on to reveal he met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> at a party organised by his wife Nancy Shevell and his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney which was also attended by a number of other female pop stars including Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; and the Beatles star admitted he was full of admiration for them all.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I did meet [her] &#8230; We had a party, my wife and my daughter Stella, are very good at getting cool people to a party and I ended up chatting to them all. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;There was Taylor, there was Billie Eilish, there was Olivia Rodrigo, there was Sabrina Carpenter, you know they&#8217;re really cool people, they&#8217;re very good. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I like their voices &#8230; If they need any advice, yeah, I would be happy to give it, but I don&#8217;t think they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nPaul&#8217;s comments come after he opened up about how he copes with fame confessing he&#8217;s learned to &#8220;deal with it&#8221; after so many years in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring an appearance on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, Paul explained: &#8221; When you&#8217;re first famous, you love it &#8211; because it&#8217;s what you were trying to achieve. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;So something goes well, people in the street recognise you, and you love it. There was none of this: &#8216;Oh, people are bothering me&#8217; &#8211; that&#8217;s a modern affliction. We loved it. And you learn to deal with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Paul insisted he still won&#8217;t pose for selfies with fans who approach him when he&#8217;s out in public, explaining: &#8220;I say I don&#8217;t like to do it because something important to me, something related to your question about innocence and staying normal, would be lost. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The minute I start thinking I&#8217;m something above myself, I won&#8217;t like me. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s very important for me to just be me. So I say to people: I don&#8217;t want to do photos. And they say: &#8216;Why?&#8217; And I say: &#8216;I&#8217;ll tell you what&#8230;&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And I go into this long explanation about how, down on the south coast of France in Saint-Tropez, there&#8217;s a man on the beachfront who has a monkey, and you pay to have your photo taken with the monkey. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I really do not want to feel like that monkey. And when I take a picture with someone, I do feel like him. I&#8217;m not me anymore &#8211; I&#8217;m suddenly something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sir-paul-mccartney-compares-taylor-swift-beatles-1445014.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 May 2026 Sir Paul McCartney has compared Taylor Swift&#8216;s &#8220;worldwide fame&#8221; to the fan frenzy of Beatlemania. 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