McCartney Times

Paul McCartney didn’t need critical adulation in 1973. For one, he had experienced plenty of it during his decade-long run with the world’s most critically-acclaimed band, The Beatles. When he went solo, both under his own name and with his new band Wings, he continued to notch hits and sell records. McCartney was doing quite well for himself, but it was becoming increasingly hard to ignore the scorn of the press and the dismissal of his music by his ex-bandmates.

This was during the height of McCartney trading barbs with John Lennon, both in the press and in song. When Lennon took exception to songs like ‘Three Legs’ and ‘Too Many People’, he responded with ‘How Do You Sleep?’, a vindictive swipe directly aimed at McCartney. Although Lennon’s counterattacks were more brutal and less oblique, the UK press tended to side with him, heaping praise onto his solo albums like John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. Even George Harrison seemed to take Lennon’s side, contributing slide guitar to ‘How Do You Sleep?’

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