POP/ROCK - June 30, 1992

Back to School: Former Beatle Paul McCartney, who recently turned 50, wants to enroll at his own music school for pop-star hopefuls, which is due to open in 1995. “There’ll be some sort of diploma offered for people who can actually go out and do music in the community. I want to try and get that degree, just for a laugh,” he said in a weekend radio interview broadcast in London. His planned Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts is being built on the site of McCartney’s old school in the northwest England city of Liverpool, hometown of the Beatles. McCartney said the idea of lecturing also appeals to him. “I would be interested in sitting around with a group of kids and talking to them about songwriting. I’m as excited about that as I am about my own work.”