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SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY FINDING IT HARDER TO BE FAMOUS

By Lizzie Catt with Lisa Higgins and Jack Teague

Tuesday March 6,2012

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY and wife Nancy Shevell showed their support for his daughter Stella’s Paris fashion show on Monday.

They happily posed for photos but Sir Paul, 69, admits: “It’s never been as hard as it is nowadays to be famous.” 

The former Beatle said in an interview that sometimes his fans can be a bit much when he wants a quiet moment, though he understands people are eager to meet him and take photos.

“I’m always polite to the people who speak to me. I’ve known from an early age that for the public I am an exciting figure – and I have had time to get used to it. But even for me nowadays it sometimes gets too much.”

Given The Beatles have been a global brand since the Sixties Sir Paul is resigned to the fact that he’ll never live the quiet life.

“Sometimes I want to have a peaceful evening with my wife in a restaurant without every few seconds having to pose for a mobile phone photograph. And increasingly people just don’t seem to understand that. Today everybody’s got a telephone with a built-in camera.”

Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell showed their support for his daughter Stella’s Paris show