We now continue our look at the U.S. top-10 hits of the 1970s, with this installment being totally dedicated to the many, many hits of Paul McCartney and, for most of the decade, his group Wings.
Overall, when the Beatles split up, McCartney started off in a somewhat non-commercial direction, at least for his earliest LPs. His first solo album,
McCartney, was a one-man band affair â the only really commercial track,
Maybe I m Amazed, inexplicably wasn t released as a single. I m certain the impassioned ballad/rocker would have made the top 10, or even hit #1.
The experimentation continued with
Ram, a much more elaborately produced album, although the pastiche song Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey did hit #1 in the U.S., and wasn t even a single in McCartney s native U.K.