{"id":3510,"date":"2013-09-02T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/02\/paul-mccartney-says-wife-linda-saved-him-from-nervous-breakdown-during-beatles-split\/"},"modified":"2013-09-02T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T14:23:37","slug":"paul-mccartney-says-wife-linda-saved-him-from-nervous-breakdown-during-beatles-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/09\/02\/paul-mccartney-says-wife-linda-saved-him-from-nervous-breakdown-during-beatles-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney says wife Linda saved him from nervous breakdown during Beatles split"},"content":{"rendered":"


Paul McCartney has revealed that his wife Linda “saved” him from a nervous breakdown during the demise of The Beatles in 1969. <\/p>\n

The revelation comes in a forthcoming biography titled Man On The Run: Paul McCartney In The 1970s, which is to be published on Friday (September 6). In the book, author Tom Doyle writes that McCartney suffered a massive crisis of confidence as the band were splitting up and fled to his farm in Scotland. <\/p>\n

An excerpt from the book, as published by The Sunday Times, reads: “Day by day, his (McCartney’s) condition had been steadily worsening. His often sleepless nights were spent shaking with anxiety, while his days were characterised by heavy drinking and self-sedation with marijuana. For the first time in his life, he felt utterly worthless. This was an identity crisis in extremis … when he did get out of bed, he would reach straight for the whisky and by three in the afternoon was usually out of it.”<\/p>\n

Doyle interviewed McCartney for the biography and the singer said of his recovery: “It was Linda who saved me and it was all done in a sort of domestic setting.” McCartney, by now on the mend, would announce his departure from The Beatles in April 1970.<\/p>\n

Paul McCartney wed Linda Eastman, a photographer from New York, in a ceremony in London in March 1969 and they remained married until 1998 when Linda died of breast cancer. McCartney married his third wife Nancy Shevell in London in October 2011.<\/p>\n

Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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