Linda McCartney

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Linda and Paul McCartney , 1976

Linda Louise McCartney , b. Eastman (born September 24, 1941 in New York , NY , † April 17, 1998 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American photographer and musician . She was the first wife of Beatle Paul McCartney .

Life

Linda Eastman grew up in a wealthy New York family. Her father, Lee Eastman, ran a law firm with his brother. Her customers came mainly from the music scene and the visual arts. The maternal family came from Cleveland and owned several department stores there.

After high school and her mother's death, Linda Eastman moved to Arizona . There she began studying art and history, but dropped out relatively quickly. She married geologist John Melvin See Jr. and gave birth to their first daughter, Heather, on December 31, 1962. The divorce took place in 1965. A friend piqued Eastman's interest in photography.

In late 1965, Eastman moved back to New York. She took a job as a receptionist for the Town and Country newspaper . As the magazine once featured the Rolling Stones on its cover, the band's management invited the newspaper to a press reception on the occasion of the launch of the new album . Because Eastman as a receptionist & a. had the task of opening all incoming letters without a named recipient, she got hold of the invitation and the press pass. She pocketed both and took the appointment. Since no hotel wanted to accommodate the Rolling Stones for this event, the band had rented a ship. However, that turned out to be too small to accommodate the amount of reporters and photographers. That's why those in charge decided that the photographers had to stay on land. Eastman managed to get on the boat through her tenacity and the intercession of Mick Jagger . That would be her breakthrough as a photographer, her pictures, including portraits of Aretha Franklin , Grace Slick , Jimi Hendrix , Bob Dylan , Janis Joplin , Eric Clapton , Simon & Garfunkel , The Who , The Doors , The Animals , John Lennon and Neil Young , were soon very popular. Eastman gave up her job as a receptionist and became a freelance photographer.

Linda with Paul McCartney, 1973

Linda Eastman first met Paul McCartney on May 15, 1967 in the London scene club "Bag o 'Nails". Eastman was there with the Animals . Four days later, on May 19, 1967, at a press conference for the Sgt. Pepper album , the two met for the second time. McCartney and Eastman were married on March 12, 1969 in London. There were three children from the marriage: Mary (* 1969), Stella (* 1971) and James (* 1977). Heather - the first of Linda's marriage - was written by Paul McCartney adopted .

Linda and Paul McCartney became vegetarians through a key experience : According to their own reports, it was said that they were eating lamb on their farm in Scotland while a small lamb got lost in the house. "Never eat anything that has a face!" Became the McCartney slogan. Linda McCartney has published several books on cooking vegetarian dishes. She founded a company for vegetarian ready-made products and campaigned vehemently for animal welfare. In 1998, Linda McCartney founded the Linda McCartney Foods Pro Cycling Team , a professional cycling team whose athletes followed a vegetarian diet.

Linda McCartney restricted her photography and began to be more concerned with music. On January 4, 1970, she contributed the backing vocals to the Beatles song Let It Be and to Paul McCartney's first solo album McCartney (April 1970), on the following McCartney album Ram (May 1971) Linda McCartney was an equal co-interpreter and performed as co-composer for six of the album's twelve songs.

Together with Paul McCartney, she founded the band Wings in August 1971 , in which she played keyboards , sang and co-composed the first three albums.

Linda McCartney Memorial Garden and Linda McCartney as a bronze statue in Campbeltown , Scotland

After the Wings disbanded in April 1981, Linda McCartney was a guest musician on her husband's albums until 1997, and she was also a member of Paul McCartney's live band between September 1989 and December 1993. Linda McCartney's only solo album, Wide Prairie , was released posthumously in November 1998. The last recordings for the album took place on 20 March 1998. The McCartney family flew to the recording of their ranch in Tucson ( Arizona ) in the US, where Linda McCartney on 17 April 1998 Breast Cancer died.

Others

After Linda and Paul McCartney had already starred in the episode Lisa as a vegetarian (1995) in a larger role in the television series The Simpsons , the Simpsons-makers devoted an episode to her posthumously ( Rolling around in the dirt , 1998). Elizabeth Mitchell embodied Linda McCartney in the TV movie The Linda McCartney Story (The Linda McCartney Story) (2000).

Exhibitions

Books

Photo books

  • 1976: Linda's Pictures
  • 1982: Photographs
  • 1989: Linda McCartney's Sun Prints
  • 1992: Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era
  • 1991: Linda McCartney's Main Courses
  • 1996: Roadworks
  • 1999: Wide Open
  • 2001: Light from Within: Photojournals
  • 2011: Life in Photographs, edited by Annie Leibovitz , Martin Harrison, and Allison Castle; Verlag Taschen, Cologne 2011 ISBN 978-3-8365-2728-6

Cookbooks

  • 1989: Linda McCartney's Home Cooking
  • 1991: Linda's Light Lunches
  • 1995: Linda's Kitchen
  • 1997: Linda's Summer Kitchen
  • 1997: Linda's Winter Kitchen
  • 1998: Linda McCartney's On Tour: Over 200 Meat-Free Dishes from Around the World
  • 1998: Linda's Recipes: Simple and sophisticated recipes for meatless meals
  • 2001: Linda's Kitchen
  • 2001: Linda McCartney's World of Vegetarian Cooking

Discography

Singles

  • 1977: Seaside Woman / B-Side to Seaside (as Suzy and the Red Stripes = Linda McCartney & Wings, USA # 59)
  • 1986: Seaside Woman (Remix) / B-Side to Seaside (Remix)
  • 1986: Seaside Woman (Long Remix) / B-Side to Seaside (Long Remix) 12 ”
  • 1998: Wide Prairie / Cow
  • 1998: Wide Prairie / Cow / Love's Full Glory (CD)
  • 1999: The Light Comes from Within / I Got Up
  • 1999: The Light Comes from Within / I Got Up / Seaside Woman (CD)

Albums

Albums with the wings

Guest albums with Paul McCartney

Albums as guest musician with Denny Laine

Album as a guest musician with Michael McCartney ( Mike McGear )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Miles : Paul McCartney. Many years from now . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, p. 535 f.
  2. ^ Special exhibitions - Jewish Museum Westphalia . In: Jewish Museum Westphalia . ( jmw-dorsten.de [accessed on February 4, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME McCartney, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCartney, Linda Louise (full name); Eastman, Linda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer, musician and wife of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1998
Place of death Tucson , Arizona , USA