McCartney Times

During the initial start to his solo career, it seemed like Paul McCartney couldn’t win. The former Beatles bassist was being lambasted for breaking up the group when, in reality, John Lennon had been the one to divorce himself from the group first in 1969. Of course, it didn’t help matters when his first solo LP, McCartney, was a hodgepodge of home recordings and dashed-off lo-fi tracks.McCartney attempted to course correct with the dreamy and lush Ram, but critics were relentless. Even McCartney’s former bandmates were starting to count him out. “I feel sad about Paul’s albums,” Starr famously told Melody Maker after Ram‘s release. “I don’t think there’s one [good] tune on the last one.” By 1971, McCartney elected to form a new band, Wings. He immediately decided that Wings had to differentiate themselves from anything that McCartney had done previously.

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