McCartney spoke approximately Kanye (‘I love him – he’s a monster’),writing a love song for John Lennon and Wings (‘we were terrible’) before a star-studded Mastertapes audiencePaul McCartney has revealed that he started drinking heavily and came close to quitting music altogether after the Beatles disbanded in 1970.
Discussing his career at a recording of Mastertapes for Radio 4, the songwriter described how he formed the group Wings. “I was depressed. You would be. You were breaking from your lifelong friends, and ” he said. “So I took to the bevvies. I took to a wee dram. It was great at first,then suddenly I wasnt having a first-rate time … I wanted to gain back to square one, so I ended up forming Wings.” Related: Scat, and scrapping songs and screaming: a guide to being the next Beatles Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com