When the magnum opus band, The Beatles, broke up in 1970 bassist and singer/songwriter Paul McCartney was far from done with his music career. Immediately the musician went solo and released his first album which had been secretly recorded in a home studio. Among his many albums, McCartney took on a lot of musical projects. Wings, a feature film, composed ballets, a written and voiced cartoon short film, and pseudonym side-projects.

In 1971 McCartney released his second solo album “Ram” with the assistance of his wife, Linda McCartney. Later, in 1977, McCartney created a character in which he’d release an instrumentation version of his popular indie album. Percy Thrills Thrillington was not a heavily talked about side project because it did not gain much attention nor did any of the tracks chart—the self-titled cover album remains pretty under-explored. The album was initially supposed to follow the release of the original album since the recording sessions only took three days, but was shelved for a later date.

Another hidden gem project of McCartney’s, in 1993 he and Martin Glover (also known as Youth) started a duo band that specialized in London-central avant-garde electronica music. The project, known as The Fireman, released three albums from 1993 to 2008. Unlike his failed attempt at creating an orchestral sheep alter-ego, this project was less hidden from the public and gained a little more traction for its electronic-rock fusion sound. Their most recent album, “Electric Arguments,” is their most popular release and has a decently streamed song titled “Sing The Changes,” but the real standouts are “Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight” and “Highway.”