‘The world said I was dead - in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles
- Posted on November 2, 2025
 - By The Guardian
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                                                                            ‘The world said I was dead - in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles

In 1969, as the band imploded, the singer was 27, depressed and drowning in a sea of legal and personal rows. He hadn’t died, as rumour had it, but he was struggling. He introduces an oral history of how his family’s escape to a remote Scottish farm helped him move on from John, George and Ringo