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"Paul Weller has released his latest track in tribute to Sir Paul McCartney. The singer-songwriter has recorded a cover of The Beatles track &amp;#039;Birthday&amp;#039; to celebrate the legendary musician&amp;#039;s 70th birthday today (June 18).   Speaking of the song, Weller said: &amp;quot;Once I saw [The Beatles], I just wanted to do music. They got me picking up a guitar in the first place. &amp;quot;I first met his royal highness in 1981 or &amp;#039;82, in George Martin&amp;#039;s studio. The Jam were recording our last album there, and Macca was recording at the same time. &amp;quot;I was totally overawed by meeting him, but he was a really nice and sweet geezer. His lovely wife Linda was smashing too.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;My wife got Paul to make me a DVD birthday thing for me which was amazing. So I&amp;#039;m returning a compliment, by doing a version of &amp;#039;Birthday&amp;#039;. Hopefully he likes it.&amp;quot; The track is available to download via iTunes for one day only. Listen to &amp;#039;Birthday&amp;#039; below:      Paul McCartney - photo gallery  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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