Music has healing powers: Paul McCartney

London: Beatles legend Paul McCartney believes in the healing power of music and says an Elvis Presley song once cured his headache.

The 70-year-old singer said songs have a powerful effect, reported Contactmusic. "The healing power of music is serious. I remember I had a mate called Ian James, just my little teenage mate, school mate, and we used to go down the fairs together and things. "I remember one day I went back to his house and I had a headache, steaming headache, and I thought `Oh God`, but we put on `All Shook Up` by Elvis. By the time that record had ended I didn`t have a headache," he said. The `Get Back` hitmaker also said his late bandmate John Lennon`s vanity used to cause some amusing mishaps. "He wore horn-rimmed glasses, but any time there was any girls around he`d whip them off, and then he couldn`t see a bloody thing, you know, he`d be as blind as a bat. "One day we were writing together, John and I, it was around Christmas, and he used to come down to me, we`d write in the evening and he`d walk back up to his house, which was like a mile away or something, and he`s walking back one night." "...And I saw him the next day, he said, `Do you know, those people on that corner of Booker Avenue, they`re mad!` He said, `What time was it when I left you last night?` I said, `I don`t know, about 11.30 or something`. He said, `Yeah, well I went passed their house and they were out, still playing cards in front of their house`. I said, `I can`t believe it`. "So I go by there later and it`s a nativity scene. You know, Mary and Joseph bent over the baby Jesus. I said `Get your glasses on, man!`" IANS