Sir Paul McCartney is in talks to play a part in the London 2012 Olympics and said he could easily be involved in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee as well.

...the tradition in Liverpool families we came from was the sing-song

The former Beatle, who performed at the party in Buckingham Palace for the Golden Jubilee in 2002, said he was going to a meeting about the Games.

He added: “In actual fact I am seeing the guy funnily enough because there is something they want me to do.

“I’m not sure what it is ... I think they’ll tend to dictate it rather than me.

“I might be doing something in the Olympics...”

Sir Paul, who was speaking at a promotional event in London for his new album Kisses On The Bottom, said he was a big fan of the Queen. He added: “I think she’s great and does a great job. People say ‘ugh, the monarchy and all that’ but what are you going to get in return?

“You’ll get like, David Cameron? I mean much as we may love him I’m not sure I want him to represent the whole of Britain. Anyway, if I get asked I could easily do it.” Sir Paul’s new album, named after a line from the Fats Waller song I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, is released on February 6. The 14-track album, his first non-classical work for more than four and a half years, is mainly compiled of cover versions with just two original songs.

Many of the songs, which include It’s Only a Paper Moon and Bye Bye Blackbird, are standards Sir Paul remembers his father playing during his childhood.

The rocker said the numbers were always in the background while the Beatles were writing their hits and he had wanted to record them since the 1960s.

He added: “Ringo did an album called Sentimental Journey where he revisited these songs from his past because the tradition in Liverpool families that we came from was the sing-song.

“For me it was New Year’s Eve, so I’d always loved these songs and my dad was the piano player at the New Year’s Eve do. so he knew all these songs, he’d play them at home.”

But he revealed he kept having to put his plans off because other singers had the same idea.

He said: “Every time I came to make this album someone else would make one like it”.