Paul McCartney reveals how he navigated fame in early days with The Beatles

Paul McCartney opened up about how he handled fame after his old strategies failed.

The 83-year-old English musician and songwriter appeared on the Thursday, May 28, episode of The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music, where he reflected on his time as a band member of The Beatles, an English rock band formed by John Lennon, McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison in Liverpool in 1960.

While remembering his early days with the band, McCartney shared how he and his bandmates dealt with fame after Lowe asked him how he remains “relatable" and still enjoys his life.

He said, "I remember once in the early days of the Beatles, we were kind of recognized most places, but me and Ringo went on holiday with our girlfriends then to Greece and nobody knew us.”

What made him relaxed and thrilled while navigating fame was finding a place where he could be anonymous.

"It was like, ‘This is great. Wow, we must come back here more often. Even when we get really famous, we can always come to Greece and they're never going to know us.' But, of course, that didn't work," McCartney quipped, referring to the time when they went to Greece.

There, he "realized, ‘Oh, I'm going to be famous all my life, if I'm lucky,' I thought, ‘Okay, big decision time.' Now, you either stop and you just sort of think that was lovely. I had a great time with the music, and you do something else more anonymous or you carry on,” the Hey Jude crooner recalled, adding that he needed "some sort of strategy" for dealing with his fame.

It is pertinent to mention that Paul McCartney’s passion for music is alive, as he dropped his new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane on Friday, May 29.