Sir Paul McCartney was traumatized so severely by The Beatles ' split it left him so physically and emotionally shattered he feared for his life, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The music icon, 83, has recalled he was struck with his crippling fear of death over his iconic group's break-up during a night when he was unable to lift his head from his pillow and believed he was in danger of suffocating. Article continues below advertisement

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He shares the harrowing tale in his new memoir Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run , in which he describes the devastating aftermath of the Beatles' 1970 breakup and how he spiraled into a

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