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The critical episode had come at a meeting at the label they had founded, Apple Records, on Sept. In private, The Beatles had fallen out and apart, prompting McCartney’s state of panic and depression. Still, despite increasingly frequent spells of happiness, McCartney was still plagued with unease, knowing that a storm was brewing back in London. “She eased me out of it,” he remembers, “and just said, ‘Hey, you know, you don’t want to get too crazy.’ “

It was there, gently encouraged by Linda, that his songwriting slowly began to return to him, as he effectively used music as therapy to alleviate his depression. Revving up a generator, he put together an ad hoc four-track recording facility in High Park’s rickety lean-to, which he named Rude Studio.