SIR PAUL MAKES A FLIRTY RETURN

Macca, honouring graduates from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, which he co-founded, told the crowd his main motivation for being at the event was the female students.

“I just come up here every year to kiss the girls,” quipped the 67-year-old, who is dating American Nancy Shevell.

While the comment may well have induced mass hysteria 40 years ago we imagine the teenagers of 2009 managed a polite smile.