Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney, born in Eastman (* September 24, 1941 in New York, NY, † 17 April 1998 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American photographer, musician and wife of Beatle Paul McCartney.
- 4.1 Singles
- 4.2 album
Life
Linda Eastman grew up in a wealthy New York Jewish family. Her father, Lee Eastman, ran a law firm with his brother. Your customer came primarily from the music scene and the visual arts. The mother's family came from Cleveland and had there several department stores.
After high school and the death of her mother Linda Eastman moved to Arizona. There she began a study in art and history, but it broke again relatively rapidly. She married the geologist John Melvin See Jr. and brought on December 31, 1962 their first daughter Heather was born. In 1965 the divorce. Through a friend of Eastman became interested in photography.
End of 1965, Eastman moved back to New York. She took a job as a receptionist at the newspaper Town and Country. Since the magazine had once shown the Rolling Stones on their cover, the newspaper was invited by the management of the band to the press reception at the presentation of the new album. Because Eastman as a receptionist, inter alia, had the task of opening all incoming letters without specifically named recipient, she remembered the invitation and the press card in the hands. She put both a and perceived this appointment. Since no hotel would shelter the Rolling Stones for this event, the band had hired a ship. This proved, however, to be too small to accommodate the legions of reporters and photographers. That is why those in charge decided that the photographers had to stay ashore. Eastman made it through her tenacity and the intercession of Mick Jagger to get on the boat. That should 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 in great demand. Eastman gave up her work as a receptionist and became a freelance photographer.
Linda Eastman met Paul McCartney for the first time on 15 May 1967 at the London club scene " Bag o ' Nails ". Eastman has remained there with the Animals. Four days later, on May 19, 1967 at a press event for the Sgt Pepper album, the two met for the second time. McCartney and Eastman were married on 12 March 1969 in London. They have three children, Mary ( * 1969 ), Stella ( b. 1971 ) and James ( b. 1977 ). Heather - from Linda's first marriage - was adopted by Paul McCartney.
Linda McCartney curtailed photography and began to engage more with the music. Along with Paul McCartney in 1971 she founded the band Wings, in which she played the keyboard and sang. Linda McCartney's solo single album Wide Prairie was published posthumously in November 1998.
Through a key experience Linda and Paul McCartney were vegetarians: own reports, there should have been so that they just ate on their farm in Scotland lamb, while a little lamb strayed into the house. "Eat not something that has a face! " Became the slogan of McCartney. Linda McCartney brought out several books for cooking vegetarian dishes. She founded a company for vegetarian finished products and argued forcefully for animal welfare. In 1998, Linda McCartney Linda McCartney Foods, the Pro Cycling Team, a professional cycling team, whose athletes ate vegetarian.
Linda Eastman McCartney died on 17 April 1998 from breast cancer.
The makers of the television series The Simpsons dedicated their one episode ( The roll around in the dirt ), and Elizabeth Mitchell embodied Linda McCartney in the TV movie The Linda McCartney Story (The Linda McCartney Story) ( 2000).
Exhibitions
- 2013: Linda McCartney. KUNST HAUS WIEN, Vienna