History
McCartney wrote the song in 1969, just before The Beatles' breakup. He credited his wife Linda with helping him get through the difficult time. This is one of the five songs that he wrote for her, the other four being "I Will", "Two of Us", "The Lovely Linda" and "My Love".
The original studio version of the song ended with a fade instead of a full ending, but McCartney later composed an ending that can be heard on the live versions of the song. A live recording from the 1976 album Wings over America was released as a single by McCartney's band Wings on February 4, 1977 and reached # 10 in the United States on the Billboard pop charts. Versions of the song can be heard on several other live McCartney albums including "Tripping in the live Fantastic", "Back in the U.S." and "Back in the World".
"Maybe I'm Amazed" has become a centrepiece of McCartney's concerts, along with "Band on the Run" and "Live and Let Die". Regarded as one of McCartney's finest love songs, it achieved the #338 position in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2004, and is the only solo McCartney song to make the list.