This letter appears in today’s FT.
Sir, Regarding your otherwise excellent Comment & Analysis article on the baby boomers (December 27), there is a slight error when you write: "In Britain, a high-profile boomer is Sir Paul McCartney, the former Beatle."
Being a long-time Beatles fan, I agree that Sir Paul and his three Beatles band-mates - John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - had an immense cultural, political and social impact on millions of boomers and those of other generations as well, but none of the four was in fact a boomer. McCartney was born in 1942, Lennon and Starr in 1940 and Harrison in 1943. Perhaps they could be called "honorary boomers". Dick Stroud
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