The best post-Beatles solo albums, definitively ranked

On the 10th of April 1970, Paul McCartney announced what had, by then, been falsely reported so many times as to seem almost impossible – The Beatles, biggest band to ever do it, were finished.

Within a week he’d released his first solo record. Before the year was out, all three of his former bandmates had done the same, and as of today, the solo careers of each ex-Beatle have between them produced, depending on how you count it, something in the region of 85 albums.

That’s a lot to wade through for anyone keen on venturing beyond the band’s mere-12-studio-album discography. But wade we must, and there is so much to learn in our wading. These records are charged with parting barbs and so variously excellent and awful and bewildering. They contain in their collected mass not just a huge quantity of interesting and enjoyable music, but a path toward an understanding of what it was that made the band work as it did. Who was good at what? Who needed what from whom, whose instincts were balanced by whose, and what kinds of adventures might result from the removal of the structures of the band?

Source: gq-magazine.co.uk/Killian Faith-Kelly

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