Popular as they were during their heyday as a four-piece band, there’s still a lot to be said about the success of some of the Beatles’ members after the band broke up. John Lennon’s The Plastic Ono Band and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass are widely considered classic albums, and then there was Paul McCartney, whose post-Beatles career was widely celebrated.
On this day, April 10th, in 1970, Paul McCartney’s solo album McCartney was released. Fans worldwide were saddened by McCartney’s official departure from The Beatles. He released a Q & A forum on his advance album copies addressing concerns that would have been ask in the future about his “break-up” with The Beatles. Remarkably, the McCartney album went double platinum and remained #1 on the U.S. charts for three weeks. In the U.K., it charted #2 with Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water at #1.
Between 1970 and 2013, McCartney released an astounding 24 studio albums, all of which reaching the top 100 in the UK charts, with most entering the top 10.