Paul McCartney, 84, claimed he believes he can remember the moment of his birth during an appearance on the "Good Hang" podcast hosted by Amy Poehler. When asked by his daughter Stella about his earliest memory, the former Beatles member described specific details from his delivery at Walton Hospital in Liverpool.
"I have this feeling that I kind of remember being born," McCartney said. "I was born in a place in Liverpool called Walton Hospital, which was a real old Victorian thing; I think it had been something else before a hospital."
The musician recalled vivid sensory details from the hospital environment. "I kind of remember white tiles, very sort of hygienic white tiles and chrome instruments and a clanging, because I was a forceps birth. They had to pull me out," he explained.
McCartney was born on June 18, 1942, at Walton Hospital. His mother, Mary, trained as a nurse at the facility and later worked as a midwife there. He remembered his mother cycling to work at the hospital.
When Poehler mentioned she was also a forceps baby, McCartney acknowledged the uncertainty surrounding his recollection. "These things, you don't know if you've made it up. But I have this feeling that I kind of remember being born," he said. He later admitted: "I don't know if it's true."
The 84-year-old expressed doubt about whether the images and sensations he described were genuine memories or mental constructs formed over decades. Despite this uncertainty, he maintained that he retained what felt like recollections of the hospital's white tiles, the metallic instruments, and the sounds associated with his forceps delivery.