Sir Paul McCartney 'proud of post-Beatles music'
Sir Paul McCartney has said he's glad he didn't listen to critics of his music after The Beatles, because he "might have given up".
Sir Paul is re-mastering his albums Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, and spoke about being "proud of his music in retrospect" with BBC Radio 2's Dermot O'Leary.
"I do yeah, in fact one of the things was Wings were getting a bad rap at that time because it was post Beatles, and anything you did or I did that was solo was stood up against The Beatles," he said.
"So you tend to go along with that, and I went along with a bit of that thinking 'well it's never gonna be that good but I'll do it because I love doing it'."
"And then you listen to it back and think 'this is better than I thought it was'. So that's great to do, to really listen back and think 'I'm glad I did that, glad I kept going', because you know if I listened to the critics I might have given up."
He also spoke frankly about the day Beatles star John Lennon was killed. Lennon was shot in New York in December 1980 by Mark David Chapman.
By: Ian Marland
Source: Herald Scotland
