McCartney Times

Sir Paul McCartney talks candidly about the depression he suffered after The Beatles broke up, and says he turned to alcohol to escape.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Mastertapes, he said he had been at a loss when the band fell apart in acrimony in 1970.

“It was difficult to know what to do after The Beatles. How do you follow that?” he told John Wilson.

“I was depressed. You would be. You were breaking from your lifelong friends. So I took to the bevvies.”

Read more…Source: Paul McCartney: ‘I was depressed after the Beatles broke up’ – BBC News