Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
This chance meeting began one of rock music’s greatest love stories.
What was the real story inside Paul McCartney’s marriage to Linda Eastman?
What was it about this one particular woman that set made Paul hang up his single status for good?
What was their life together like and how does her memory still influence Paul today?
There’s a lot you don’t know.
“I stood up just as she was passing, blocking her exit.
And so I said, ‘Oh, sorry.
How’re you doing?’
I introduced myself and said, ‘We’re going on to another club after this.
Would you like to join us?’
That was my big pulling line!
Well, I’d never used it before, of course, but it worked this time!
It was a fairly slim chance, but it worked.”
She went back to his place and stayed with the rocker until the following day.
Their relationship came to a screeching halt shortly after when she found Paul in bed with a fan.
At that time, ladies man Paul was still wooing Linda from across the pond.
Heather and Joe separated after 18 months of marriage.
Heather was six when Paul married Linda.
The couple’s wedding day was overcast and rainy.
Hundreds of Beatles fans crowded the steps at the Marylebone registry office where the marriage took place.
Paul’s brother Mike was the best man.
However, his train was late arriving from Birmingham to London due to a breakdown.
“We were crazy,” Paul said (perUltimate Classic Rock).
“We had a big argument the night before we got married, and it was nearly called off.
Aren’t they lucky for people in showbiz?'
But we did.”
The couple moved to Scotland, where Paul had a plot of land he rarely visited.
“Going up to Scotland was real freedom.
It was like, ‘Let’s escape we’ll just run away.
And we did; we just ran away,” he said (via theDaily Record).
“And Linda was a great nature lover.
That very much informed our relationship,” he continued.
Linda sang backing vocals on the records, and Paul taught her how to play the keyboards.
When he formed Wings, he wanted Linda to remain with him in the band.
The band also released the title track to the James Bond filmLive and Let Die.
Wings continued to be successful, releasing four subsequent albums before formally disbanding in 1981.
During that time, the McCartneys welcomed their first son and fourth child, James, born in 1977.
Many of her images were used on the covers and interiors of the albums released by Wings.
Paul began releasing his solo works in the early 1980s.
She tended to her family and became an animal activist after serving lamb for a family supper.
Linda’s dedication to a cruelty-free way of life rubbed off on her children.
Her fashion designer daughter Stella’s designs arevegan.
Mary also took the photographs for Paul’s latest release,McCartney III.
Her memory lives on in the work of her former husband and their children.
Paul shared anInstagrampost on March 26, 2021, where he posed with daughters Mary and Stella.
