Sir Paul McCartney is performing at The Times Union Center in Albany, NY this weekend.
As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by his side. Holed up at his farmhouse in Scotland, he sank into a deep depression. To outsiders, McCartney seemed like a man adrift—intimidated by his own fame, paralyzed by the choices that lay before him, cut loose from his musical moorings.
But what appeared to be the sad finale of a glorious career was just the start of a remarkable second act.
