Paul McCartney Opens Up About Depression After Breakup Of The Beatles

By Bradley Blaylock. Published: 24 May 2016 9:37 PM

In a recent interview with BBC Radio 4 Mastertapes, music legend Paul McCartney opened up suffering from depression after the breakup of The Beatles depression, revelaing he came close to giving up on music all together.

The interview took place in front of a studio audience and included Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg and Martin Freeman. “I was depressed,” McCartney stated, “It was difficult to know what to do after The Beatles. How do you follow that?”;

McCartney continues to explain that the thought of never producing music again was “kind of depressing.” He states, “You were breaking from your lifelong friends. We used to liken it to the army, where you’d been army buddies for a few years and now you weren’t going to see them again.”;

After putting his career on the back burner, the 73-year-old singer moved to Scotland, where he began hitting the bottle. “It was great at first but then after awhile I was a bit far gone,”; adds McCartney. “Suddenly I wasn’t having a good time. It wasn’t working.”;

McCartney goes on to explain his rocky relationship with former bandmate John Lennon, revealing that it took some time to repair their friendship to the way it once was. “I would make calls to John occasionally and it was a bit, “What do you want?’ “Well, what do you want?!'”; he said.

Thankfully, the two mended all wounds before the Lennon’s murder in 1980. “One of the things that I was really grateful for was that we got it back together before he died, because it would have been very difficult to deal with,”; explains McCartney.