Legacy Matters
Paul McCartney was so grief stricken when wife his first wife Linda died that he could not write or play music for two years.
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He was composing a classical album for a choir and orchestra when Linda died of breast cancer in April 1998. The work, Ecce Cor Meum, Latin for Behold My Heart, is finally released tomorrow.
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For a couple of years I couldn’t do anything, really. I was just grieving,” he says. “And when I eventually came back to it I started doing some particularly sad bits.
There is a piece called Interlude. It still affects me. It is quite a sad thing. The chords are very sad and it is strange, really, how something with no words can affect you so deeply, can affect your emotions.
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I gradually got back into it through that. I just sort of wrote my sadness out. I was able after a year or two to pick it up again and complete it.