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SIR Paul McCartney has given the Covid vaccine a big shot in the arm, promising to be among the first big names to get the vaccine in the UK.
The 78-year-old Beatles legend will be among the third tier of people eligible to receive the jab alongside others over 75, and said he believes it will finally offer Britain a way out of the pandemic crisis.
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In an exclusive interview with The Sun’s Something For The Weekend today, Sir Paul recounts how he is eager to get back on stage as soon as possible after being forced to miss the headliner for the Glastonbury Festival after it was canceled this year.
He said: “The vaccine will get us out of this. I think we’ll get through it, I know we’ll get through it, and it’s great vaccine news. I’ll have it as soon as they let me. “
His comments come as polls show that eight percent of Britons don’t want the hit, but 76 percent say they are willing to take it.
Nearly 138,000 people had it in the first week, and 25 million will have it by Easter.
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Sir Paul said: “I want to say that it is going to be very difficult for a while yet, because you cannot block a whole country unless it is China.
“We cannot have that kind of lack of freedom, we were all educated to enjoy this great freedom that we have in a democracy.
“So if someone says, especially to the younger ones, ‘Look, you just have to stay for Saturday night,’ I can’t imagine all those girls you see in Liverpool in the freezing cold in the smallest of miniskirts a Saturday night in the dead of winter, I’m not sure you can tell them, ‘Look, you have to stay home.’
Sir Paul is currently promoting his new album McCartney III, the third in a long-running trilogy he wrote and recorded during the close of this year. And he said he really wants to get back on stage “whenever he can.” He said: “Like everyone, we are all on hold. You just don’t know what is going to happen from one second to the next.
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“I was talking to a colleague who is a musician and he said to me: ‘When do you think we’ll be back?’ And I said, ‘You mean the road and stuff? I said, ‘I don’t know, maybe next year?’
“And he said, ‘No, two years.’ And he’s not kind of depressing this guy, he’s very positive, but he didn’t really think we could fix it sooner, so we’ll see.
“People have started to find ways with Zoom and with socially distanced things. But for something like Glastonbury, where there are more than 100,000 people huddled in a field, that’s a super spreader, you know.
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“But I’ll be happy when we can come back, it will be a good change to play with some people.”
Meanwhile, Lord of the Rings actor Sir Ian McKellen, 81, had his hit at Queen Mary University Hospital in London on Wednesday.
Then he said, “It is a very special day. I feel euphoric. “
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