10 Rock Bands That Got Better With Age
1. Paul McCartney
No one ever said that it was going to be easy leaving the biggest band in the world behind. At the end of the '60s, the breakup of the Beatles almost felt like a day of mourning in the music world, with the Fab Four each going in different directions and more than a little bit bitter with how the last few business dealings had treated them. It's a hard funk to get out of, but it was nothing that Paul McCartney's optimism couldn't get through.
After struggling to please the critics on his first solo efforts like his debut and RAM, Macca was slowly putting the pieces together for one of the greatest second acts in music history, creating Wings with his wife Linda and earning hits into the next decade like on Band on the Run and My Love. That's just a drop in the bucket of where he would go next though, willing to defy trends on records like the zany McCartney II or reminding us of the pop hits that he was so good at dishing out on records like Tug of War and London Town.
Even though his hit making days may be behind him in the '90s and '00s, Paul was still willing to test his strengths as a songwriter, making some of his more interesting output after 1999 like the atmospheric textures on Chaos and Creation in the Backyard or going off the wall with his side projects like the Fireman, which saw him playing with everything from avant garde sounds to electronic soundscapes. For the half a century that he has been making music, it seems like Paul McCartney is still just as interested in hearing where his muse is going to take him next.