<p id=”par-1_47″>Paul McCartney leaned heavily on Linda McCartney after <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/john-lennon-said-the-beatles-over-met-yoko-ono.html/”>The Beatles broke up</a>. The band’s split was painful for McCartney; it didn’t help that his former <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/george-harrison-said-good-paul-mccartney-sued-rest-beatles.html/”>bandmates turned on him</a> in the aftermath. He said that Linda’s advice to him after the breakup helped him get through it.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-bassist-said-he-felt-depressed-after-the-beatles-broke-up”>The bassist said he felt depressed after The Beatles broke up</h2>
<p id=”par-2_27″>The Beatles <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/paul-mccartney-announced-the-beatles-breakup-anyone-else.html/”>announced their breakup</a> in 1970. The band’s final months were full of interpersonal conflict. After the band broke up, McCartney felt his life was over.</p>
<p id=”par-3_38″>“The Beatles had been my whole life, really,” he said in the documentary <em>Man on the Run</em>. “When we split up, I thought I’ll never write another note of music ever. I had fear of being a grown-up.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_12″>He said he spent months drinking too much as a coping mechanism.</p>
<p id=”par-5_49″>“I felt very depressed. I thought, ‘I’ll have a wee drum of scotch. Why not? I might have another one. I’ve got no where to go,’” he said. “This lasted a couple of months. I got into drinking too much. But I was very lucky, because I had Linda.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-paul-mccartney-shared-how-linda-mccartney-helped-him”>Paul McCartney shared how Linda McCartney helped him</h2>
<p id=”par-6_15″>During this time, Linda taught McCartney a mantra that helped him navigate his deep uncertainty. </p>
<p id=”par-7_49″>“In a situation like that you lost your job, you can get uptight very easily,” he said. “One of my favorite expressions of hers was, you’d be saying, ‘Oh, I don’t know. I’d love to do so and so, but I can’t. I can’t,’ and she’d say, ‘It’s allowed.’”</p>
<p id=”par-8_11″>He said this helped him visualize his future without the band.</p>
<p id=”par-9_39″>“It’s like all the weight just went off. It’s allowed. Yeah, of course it is,” he said. “So those kind of things really impressed me and I think probably made me think a lot more was allowed than was.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-paul-mccartney-spoke-about-the-songs-he-wrote-for-linda-mccartney”>Paul McCartney spoke about the songs he wrote for Linda McCartney</h2>
<p id=”par-10_35″>McCartney penned multiple romantic songs about Linda, including <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/paul-mccartney-called-maybe-im-amazed-basic.html/”>“Maybe I’m Amazed”</a> and “My Love,” which he described as <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/paul-mccartney-said-1-wings-song-ultimate-tribute-linda-mccartney.html/”>the “definitive” song</a> about their romance. He admitted he faced some ridicule because of the love songs. </p>
<p id=”par-11_79″>“[O]ver the years people have said, ‘Aw, he sings love songs, he writes love songs, he’s so soppy at times,’” he told <a href=”https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney-on-his-not-so-silly-love-songs-80344/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Billboard</a>. “I thought, Well, I know what they mean, but, people have been doing love songs forever. I like ’em, other people like ’em, and there’s a lot of people I love — I’m lucky enough to have that in my life. So the idea was that ‘you’ may call them silly, but what’s wrong with that?”</p>
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<p id=”par-12_13″>He wrote the song “Silly Love Songs” about this reaction to his work.</p>
<p id=”par-13_73″>The song was, in a way, to answer people who just accuse me of being soppy. The nice payoff now is that a lot of the people I meet who are at the age where they’ve just got a couple of kids and have grown up a bit, settling down, they’ll say to me, “I thought you were really soppy for years, but I get it now! I see what you were doing!”</p>