One of the songs - “Maybe I’m Amazed,” dedicated to Linda - would become a top hit in the U.K. Then, from late December 1969 through late March 1970 – working mostly at the McCartney London home, he set about working on that solo album, which would be titled, McCartney and would include an assortment of 13 songs, some of which had begun as earlier-composed fragments. She encouraged him musically, boosting his confidence, helping him to finish his solo album, which he had already started. Still, Linda became the rock in helping Paul weather the Beatles’ turmoil and getting him back on track.
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Linda then had her hands full with her 7 year-old daughter Heather from an earlier marriage, plus their newborn baby, Mary. He and his first wife, Linda – Linda Eastman, an American photographer – were married for less than a year at that point, having wed in March 1969. At the farm, however, McCartney went through a very down period of brooding, drinking, and depression over the likely demise of the Beatles and his uncertain musical future. McCartney then retreated with his wife and young family to his farm in Scotland, a remote place on the Kintyre peninsula they also called the High Park farm. The Beatles were practically everything Paul had ever done. Still, Paul had taken John’s announcement to heart, and it left him bereft. In September 1969, John Lennon had privately announced to the group (and not the public) that he wanted to quit the Beatles, though at the time it was unclear whether he meant permanently. And Paul McCartney, too, had begun working on songs for a possible solo album.īut for McCartney, the period leading up to his work on that solo album had become a rough, uncertain time, borne by the prospect of the Beatles breaking up, which had set him adrift. Ringo was pursuing some film interests and also had a solo album in the works.
George Harrison, frustrated with Lennon-McCartney domination, had put out a solo album in January 1968. But as they worked on the final sessions for what would be their last album together, Let it Be, the rifts were widening and near rupture.īy then, each of the Beatles had been thinking about, or had launched, solo projects.
On the musical front, too, there were serious fissures in the group, some dating to early 1968 and a couple of walk outs. Apple Records, their new label, was created in 1968, but a rift ensued when Allen Klein came in as manager with the support of Lennon, Harrison and Starr, while McCartney wanted his wife’s father, entertainment lawyer Lee Eastman, to be manager. In August 1967, they had lost their friend and business manager, Brian Epstein, then 32, to a drug overdose and were now navigating the business world on their own. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were having both creative differences over musical direction and business disagreements. The “Fab Four,” as they were once called, were having their differences. It was a turbulent time for the famous British rock group, the Beatles – that period from around September 1969 through April 1970. Photo of he and daughter Mary, tucked inside his coat, by Linda McCartney, shot in Scotland. Photo from back cover of “McCartney” album, April 1970, his first solo album.
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