The 69-year-old musician, who used to hit the bottle at his hideaway on the Mull of Kintyre, says he was so drunk that he was unable to write songs. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/paul.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 716px; " /> Paul McCartney &quot;I overdid it, basically. I&#39;d drink whisky, of which there was a large supply in Scotland. What happened was The Beatles, towards the end, was very constricting. &quot;You were in a corporate world suddenly. It&#39;s not what you get into music for, but it&#39;s there. It got very heavy, so me and Linda (wife) escaped with the kids, but the business hassles were still there. &quot;So I think I was just trying to escape in my own mind. I had the freedom to have just have a drink whenever I fancied it. I&#39;d go into the studio, maybe have another drink and so on. I got to a point where Linda had to say &#39;Look, you should cool it&#39;,&quot; he said.

Paul McCartney says he battled a drinking problem after the legendary band Beatles broke up.

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