Barbra Streisand pays Paul McCartney 83rd birthday tribute with Beatles quote

Beatles star Paul McCartney got a sweet shoutout from Barbra Streisand on Wednesday.

The actress, 82, took to Instagram with a heartfelt birthday message for the fellow music legend, which included a reference to a classic Beatles song.

"To Paul… Happy Birthday. Hope you’re celebrating with a little help from your friends… including me. xo Barbra," Streisand captioned a picture of her and McCartney, 83, posing in the recording studio.

She also shared the photo on her Instagram Stories set to the tunes of the 1967 song With a Little Help from My Friends.

The musicians recently collaborated on a cover of the Beatles' song My Valentine for her upcoming duets album The Secret of Life Partners, Volume Two.

McCartney got candid about their recording session on his website in a May 20 blog post.

“I did the session with her in LA and I was pretty terrified. I think the session was about three hours, you know, a normal kind of session, and it was produced by my friend Peter Asher," he wrote.

He continued, "But it started off with a big 40-piece orchestra on the Sony lot… and we were on ‘The Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage,’ so no pressure there!"

McCartney released the song in 2011 for his wife Nancy Shevell, whom he married that year. The power ballad was part of his 2012 album, Kisses on the Bottom.

"I thought, ‘Well, this will be easy because it’s my song, it’s My Valentine. What can go wrong?’ But what I’d forgotten was that they’d arranged it so that it had to go in Barbra’s key and then in my key," McCartney continued.

"So, to get from Barbra’s key into mine was kind of difficult, and I had to launch in not knowing what key I was in. Mine was lower, hers was higher. It wasn’t easy at all!" he said. "I didn’t realise how rounded she is, creatively."

The Secret of Life Partners, Volume Two releases on June 27, 2025.