Paul McCartney has spoken about the depression he felt after The Beatles broke up in 1970. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 programme Mastertapes, McCartney said, "I was depressed. You would be. You were breaking from your lifelong friends".
"There's an old song, Wedding Bells. 'Those weddings bells are breaking up this old band o' mine'. We kind of felt like that". He also aldmitted he wasn't sure whether or not he would be continue his career in music.
During this time the Liverpudlian also "took to the bevvies. I took to a wee dram". Shortly after starting however he realised he "wasn't having a good time".
McCartney subsequently went on to form the group Wings with his wife Linda. According to McCartney Wings "weren't that good" and compared his wife Linda learning to play to John Lennon learning to play guitar. "John couldn't play guitar when we started, he was playing banjo chords".
The Beatles split up in 1970 shortly after releasing their final studio album Let It Be. Their final public performance together was on the roof of Apple Headquarters in London on January 30 1969.