Paul McCartney performs on Opening Night of the One On One Tour at Save Mart Center on April 13, 2016 in Fresno, California.
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Sir Paul McCartney has talked candidly about the depression he suffered after The Beatles broke up, confessing he considered giving up music altogether.
It is not the first time the musician has embraced VR technology, as he previously teamed up with Jaunt to film him performing his James Bond theme Live and Let Die at a 2014 concert in San Francisco, California. The dissolution of the band was a heartbreaking experience for him.
Of course McCartney has been around for decades, first as a member of the iconic group The Beatles before going solo.
There was always controversy on whether Wings served as a backdrop for Paul, the soloist, or if it was a band within its own right. “You were breaking from your lifelong friends”, he told BBC Radio 4’s Mastertapes. “With all the business stuff going on and not knowing whether I was going to continue in music, that was kind of depressing”, he said.
In a new BBC interview, the Mull of Kintyre singer reveals he turned to drinks and went wild in the years after the Fab Four called it quits, and his band Wings helped him straighten out and rediscover his love for music. He confessed about the criticisms fired at them and agreed that they were not that good. “People say he’s eccentric, which you’d have to agree with”.
“I could have just formed a supergroup and rung up Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page and John Bonham”. Looking back on his lengthy career Paul McCartney reflected on some fond, and not so fond, memories, including stints working with George Martin, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and, of course, John Lennon.
Two years after Lennon’s death, McCartney penned an emotional ode to his fallen friend with “Here Today”.
McCartney, 38, proved to be a man of few words in the email interview.
However, we have learnt one important thing from Paul McCartney: Never say no to Kanye, even when Oprah advises you to politely decline. McCartney said he and West were just jamming and telling stories to each other, with an iPhone recording the whole thing.
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McCartney said West had reached out to him and he had his doubts, but chose to go through with it and liked the end result.
