Paul McCartney

After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Paul McCartney formed Wings in 1971 with his wife Linda McCartney, guitarist Denny Laine, and drummer Denny Seiwell. Wings recorded major hits throughout the 1970s, including "Band on the Run" (1973) and the James Bond theme "Live and Let Die" (1973).

Yes, "Yesterday" was solely Paul McCartney's composition, though it was credited to the standard Lennon-McCartney partnership when released on the 1965 album "Help!" McCartney has said the melody came to him in a dream, and the song has been covered by more than 2,000 artists, making it one of the most recorded songs in history.

Paul McCartney was primarily the Beatles' bassist and co-lead vocalist, famously playing a left-handed Höfner 500/1 violin bass. He also played piano, acoustic and electric guitar, Mellotron, and drums on various Beatles tracks, including the drums on "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "Dear Prudence."

The Lennon-McCartney partnership yielded approximately 180 officially released songs during the Beatles' career from 1962 to 1970. While early Beatles albums featured close collaboration, by the mid-1960s they increasingly wrote separately, though nearly all their compositions remained jointly credited.