Paul McCartney Reveals Who Brought Him Back to Music After The Beatles Split

Paul McCartney has been getting candid about love, loss and the woman who helped him heal after the end of The Beatles.

The music legend, 83, reveals in new documentary Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, how his late wife, Linda McCartney, became his emotional anchor during one of the toughest times of his life.

As per a Page Six report, He told film director Morgan Neville he struggled with the Beatles split until Linda offered a simple but powerful mantra: “It’s allowed.”

Paul elaborated further and said: “In a situation like that you lost your job, you can get uptight very easily.”

“One of my favorite expressions of hers was, you’d be saying, ‘Oh, I don’t know. I’d love to do so and so, but I can’t. I can’t,’ and she’d say, ‘It’s allowed.’ It’s like all the weight just went off,” he added. “It’s allowed. Yeah, of course it is. So those kind of things really impressed me and I think probably made me think a lot more was allowed than was.”

The pair first met in 1967, marrying in 1969 and going on to build a life centered on family and music with the band Wings which Linda also was a part of playing keyboard.

Together, they welcomed children Mary, Stella and James, with Linda also bringing daughter Heather into the family.

Looking back, Paul added: “There was a lot of freedom in her thinking, so I think that really was good for me.”

The couple’s marriage of almost three decades was cut short when Linda died in 1998 at 58 after battling breast cancer.

But her influence lives on — not just in their music, but in the freedom she inspired for Paul.

As Closer revealed last month, Paul has announced his first new album in five years which will be released in May 2026.