After the Beatles took the 1960's by storm, Paul McCartney spent his years stoned and dishevelled on a farm in Scotland. On the other hand, the band member shared his thought about his music with Wings and his solo work in comparison to his Beatles career.
According to GQ, right after the band ended, a lot of their fans thought he already died. The singer became shaggy and unkept. He claimed that he just stared at the ceiling and smoked and drank whiskey when he was on a farm in Scotland. Then Life magazine photographer reminisced the sight of McCartney tossing a bucket of food scraps in the path of his lens after he'd knocked on the door.
One of the snapshots made it to the cover the week after and this was how it was discovered that the singer was still alive. "The Case of the 'Missing' Beatle: Paul is still with us," the cover line of the photo wrote. On the brink of his sadness, he moved together with his family to High Park Farm, a tax shelter of a property he owned in Scotland. McCartney even thought of growing marijuana plants out of frustration. The former Beatles member stated, "[it] took a lot out of me."
But then, after his depression and frustrations went by, he came up with Wings, and Band on the Run, and McCartney went back to the arenas he had known. As mentioned in Telegraph UK, the singer recently told BBC Radio 2's Dermot O'Leary that he is actually happy that he didn't listen to criticisms before for the former Beatles member "might have given up" a long time ago.
McCartney has his album "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace". He claimed, "Wings were getting a bad rap at that time [the Seventies] because it was post-Beatles, and anything you did or I did that was solo was stood up against The Beatles." The band member went on by sharing that he really thought that Wings would never be as good as the Beatles, but he did the whole thing because of his love for his craft. He continued by saying, "And then you listen to it back and think 'this is better than I thought it was'."
Even today, a jam-packed schedule for the Beatles tribute keeps McCartney busy. In fact, there are two separate tours in September: the "The McCartney Years" and "Classical Mystery Tour". As reported by Lubbock Online, the international concert show entitled "The McCartney Years" is a show reminiscing the Beatlemania craze up to Paul McCartney's post-Beatles career with Wings. The other tour "A Beatles Tribute: Classical Mystery Tour", will kick off with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra playing behind four musicians cast as Paul, George, John and Ringo.
Now, many of the Beatles' fans can't seem to picture out what Paul McCartney went through and other music artists too, who got discouraged and dispirited during the downfall of their careers. Meanwhile, Paul McCartney still serves as one of the most celebrated artists of all time alongside his band Beatles.
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