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Paul McCartney not ready to retire yet: 'I'll stop when I feel like it'

Sir Paul McCartney has insisted that he has no plans to retire just yet.

The musician was recently hospitalised for some time after suffering from a viral infection.

Dates in Asia and the US were affected, but the Beatle told Rolling Stone that he has no intentions on quitting music.

McCartney said: "I was saying to someone the other day that one of the very first gigs we did - I don't even think we were The Beatles, it was the Quarrymen - one of the very first times I ever played with John [Lennon], we did a very early gig at a thing called a co-op hall, and I had a lead solo in one of the songs and I totally froze.

"My mum had come, and I really played the crappiest solo ever. I said, 'That's it. I'm never going to play lead guitar again'. It was just too nerve-wracking onstage. So for years, I just became rhythm guitar and bass player and played a bit of piano, do a bit of this, that and the other. 

The Liverpudlian concluded: "But nowadays, I play lead guitar, and that's the thing that draws me forward. I enjoy it. So, yeah, that means the answer to 'Are you going to retire?' is 'When I feel like it'. But that's not today."

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