Linda McCartney - The Woman Behind Paul's Hit Song Maybe I'm Amazed - Story Time

"Maybe I'm Amazed" is a song written by English musician Paul McCartney that was first released on his 1970 debut solo album McCartney.

Although the original recording has never been released as a single, a live performance by McCartney's later band Wings, from the live album Wings over America, was Released in 1977, this version became a top ten hit in the United States and reached number 28 in the United Kingdom.

McCartney wrote the song in 1969, just before the Beatles' break-up. He credited his wife Linda with helping him get through the difficult time. Although most of his debut solo album was recorded at his home in London, McCartney recorded "Maybe I'm Amazed" entirely in EMI's Number Two studio in Abbey Road, on the same day as he recorded "Every Night". He played all the instruments: guitars, bass, piano, organ and drums. Although McCartney declined to release the song as a single in 1970, it nonetheless received a great deal of radio airplay worldwide. A promotional film was made, comprising still photographs of McCartney, his wife Linda, stepdaughter Heather, and daughter Mary, which first aired in the UK on 19 April 1970 on ITV in its own slot, and as a part of an episode of CBS Television's The Ed Sullivan Show.

Regarded as one of McCartney's finest love songs, it achieved the number 347 position in the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2004, and is the only solo McCartney song to make the list.

Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone described "Maybe I'm Amazed", as "a very powerful song", that states "one of the main sub-themes of the record, that the terrible burden of loneliness can be dispelled by love." Winner continued to describe the track as "the only song on the album that even comes close to McCartney's best efforts of the past. It succeeds marvelously.

On September 24th, 1941, Linda Eastman was born in New York City and she would go on to become one of rock music’s great photographers, an animal rights activist who changed how people think about vegetarianism as well as being the love of Paul McCartney’s life. She was the muse behind a great chunk of the former Beatles’ work and ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ is a song about his adoration to Linda, one which captures his complete awe for her following the break up of The Fab Four and how she guided him through it.

The couple first met when Linda’s photography work took her to London in May 1967 and, during her time in the English capital, she would meet her soulmate Paul McCartney at the Bag O’Nails club. Whilst she was still in London, she met Paul once again four days later at the launch party for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at Brian Epstein’s house but she then traveled back to New York and fell out of contact.


Then twelve months later, when Macca was in the Big Apple, they reconvened and a few months later she went to London to stay with him.


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Paul McCartney and Wings Maybe I'm Amazed
by Patrick Cramer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsADBfl7-a8


Paul and Linda McCartney - Heart Of The Country
by PAUL McCARTNEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGaY-fyZl5M




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