Profile
Linda McCartney
Photo [http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//itn/1984/01/17/as170184009/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=video&utm_content=mccartney Footage of Linda Mccartney In 1984] Grapher
Female
Born
Sep 24, 1941
Hometown
New York City
Died
Apr 17, 1998
Death Place
Arizona
Instruments
Mellotron + Piano...
Performed With
Denny Laine + Win...
Other Names
Eastman, Linda
Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney, was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman. In 1969, she married Paul McCartney, and later joined McCartney's band,… Read More
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Romance
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Stanislas Klossowski de RolaFling 1967
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John See, Jr.Married 1961 - 1965
Family
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Linda McCartney
d.1998
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Singing Bond Girls Give 007 His First Oscar Gold Fingers In Nearly 50 YearsSeattle Pi - Feb 25, 2013
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Michael Sigman: Carol Miller On 40 Years In Rock And Her Cancer Battle: 'Face The Truth With A Sense Of Humor'Huffington Post - Sep 10, 2012
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Music Review: Paul And Linda Mc Cartney Ram [Deluxe Edition 4 Cd+1 Dvd]Seattle Pi - Jul 19, 2012
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Jay Weston: Who Shot Rock And Roll.. At Annnenberg Space For Photography!Huffington Post - Jul 03, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1941
Birth
Born on September 24, 1941.
TEENAGE
1959
17 Years Old
She grew up in the wealthy Scarsdale area of Westchester County, New York and graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1959.
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TWENTIES
1962
20 Years Old
They married on 18 June 1962, and their daughter Heather Louise was born on December 31, 1962. They were divorced in June 1965.
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She photographed Young in 1967—the picture was used for the front cover of Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968, in 2008.
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1968
26 Years Old
In May 1968, they met again in New York, as John Lennon and McCartney were there to announce the formation of Apple Corps.
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In 1969, she married Paul McCartney, and later joined McCartney's band, Wings.
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1970
28 Years Old
After the breakup of The Beatles in 1970, her husband taught her to play keyboards and recorded an album with her, Ram, as a duo.
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THIRTIES
The song was recorded by Wings in 1972, in response to a lawsuit by Northern Songs and Maclen Music alleging McCartney violated an exclusive rights agreement by collaborating on the song "Another Day", which had the effect of transferring a 50% share of the publishing royalties to his own McCartney Music company.
1975
33 Years Old
McCartney introduced her husband to vegetarianism in 1975, and promoted a vegetarian diet through her cookbooks: Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking (with author Peter Cox, 1989), Linda’s Kitchen and Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals.
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FORTIES
1984
42 Years Old
In 1984, she was arrested in Barbados for possession of marijuana; her husband had been arrested in Los Angeles for possession of marijuana in 1975.
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FIFTIES
She wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company), and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era. McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on 17 April 1998 in Tucson, Arizona, where the McCartneys had a ranch.
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The McCartneys shared an Oscar nomination for the co-composition of the song, "Live and Let Die". Her album Wide Prairie, which included "Seaside Woman," was released posthumously in 1998.
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