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''McCartney'' is the debut studio album by English musician Paul McCartney. It was issued on Apple Records in April 1970 after McCartney had resisted attempts by his fellow Beatles to have the release delayed to allow for Apple's previously scheduled titles, notably the band's ''Let It Be'' album. McCartney recorded his eponymous solo album during a period of depression and confusion, following John Lennon's private announcement in September 1969 that he was leaving the Beatles, and the conflict over its release further estranged McCartney from his bandmates. A press release in the form of a self-interview, supplied with UK promotional copies of ''McCartney'', led to the announcement of the group's break-up on 10 April 1970. Apart from wife Linda's vocal contributions, McCartney performed the entire album by himself, playing every instrument. Featuring loosely arranged (and in some cases, unfinished) home recordings, ''McCartney'' explored the back-to-basics style that had been the original concept for the ''Let It Be'' project in 1969. Partly as a result of McCartney's role in officially ending the Beatles' career, the album received an unfavourable response from the majority of music critics, although the song "Maybe I'm Amazed" was consistently singled out for praise. Commercially, ''McCartney'' benefited from the publicity surrounding the break-up; it held the number 1 position for three weeks on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart and peaked at number 2 in Britain. The album was reissued in June 2011 as part of the ''Paul McCartney Archive Collection''. ==Background== Following John Lennon's announcement in a band meeting on 20 September 1969 that he wanted a "divorce" from the Beatles,〔Doggett, pp. 101–03.〕 Paul McCartney withdrew to his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland.〔Spizer, p. 116.〕 Author Robert Rodriguez describes his frame of mind as: "brokenhearted, shocked, and dispirited at the loss of the only job he had ever known".〔 While the announcement was not made official, partly for business reasons,〔〔Woffinden, p. 27.〕 McCartney's period in seclusion with his family coincided with widespread rumours in America that he had died〔Sounes, p. 262.〕 – an escalation of the three-year-old "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy theory.〔Schaffner, pp. 127–28.〕 The rumour was broken only by journalists from BBC Radio〔Miles 2001, pp. 357, 358.〕 and ''Life'' magazine tracking him down at his farm, High Park.〔Sounes, pp. 262–63.〕 McCartney's months in Scotland created an estrangement between him and his bandmates,〔Clayson, p. 205.〕 further to the division caused by their appointment of Allen Klein as business manager in May that year.〔Doggett, pp. 85–86, 101, 111.〕〔''The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'', p. 61.〕 McCartney later cited Klein's appointment as the first "irreconcilable difference" within the Beatles, since he continued to favour New York lawyers Lee Eastman and John Eastman〔Doggett, pp. 70, 132.〕 – father and brother, respectively, of his wife Linda.〔Sounes, pp. 250, 251–52, 253.〕 For McCartney, the period following Lennon's departure was also marked by a bout of severe depression,〔 during which, in his own estimation, he came close to suffering a nervous breakdown.〔Miles 1998, p. 570.〕〔Sounes, pp. 263, 264.〕 In his book ''Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney'' (2010), Howard Sounes writes of the McCartneys' exile at High Park: "This was grim for Linda. She had a seven-year-old and a baby to look after, with a husband who was depressed and drunk. She later told friends it was one of the most difficult times in her life, while Paul reflected that he might have become a rock 'n' roll casualty at this point in his career."〔 With Linda's encouragement, McCartney began to consider a future outside the Beatles, by writing or finishing songs for his first solo album, ''McCartney''.〔Rodriguez, p. 1.〕〔Sounes, p. 264.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「McCartney (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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