His Long and Winding Road to HAPPINESS

A NEW BOOK REVEALS THE MUSIC ICON'S STRUGGLES AFTER THE BEATLES BROKE UP AND HOW LOVE SAVED HIM

In late 1969, Paul McCartney was reeling from the impending breakup of the Beatles. John Lennon had left the group, and while they’d kept it quiet, Paul packed up his family and retreated to a remote Scottish farmhouse. “He is not wanting to get out of bed and drinking way too much once he did get out of bed,” biographer Allan Kozinn tells Closer. “He’s completely depressed. He had been in the Beatles his whole adult life. It was the only job he knew.” Suddenly, Kozinn says, “Paul had a lot of self-doubt.”