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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Linda Mccartney was nobody's pushover!
Poor Linda Eastman McCartney. She had won the heart of Paul, the world’s most eligible bachelor, but married life was turning out to less than idyllic. Way less, in fact.
She was stuck in a rural farmhouse in Scotland, tasked with the care and feeding of a newborn and a seven-year-old daughter from her first marriage. Her husband was a depressed, drunk layabout who seldom got out of bed until the afternoon. Paul had stopped shaving, and his personal hygiene was non-existent.
“Here I am living on a stone floor, carrying water in buckets, and I’m married to a drunk who won’t take a bath.” Linda told a longtime friend. It was not the life Paul’s female fans imagined she was living.
McCartney was mourning the breakup of the Beatles. Sunk in self-pity, he wasn’t writing songs and went for days without picking up a guitar. But as fall turned to winter in 1969, Linda finally lost patience. “She was yelling at him to get off his ass and be a man, already,” the friend recalls in Paul McCartney: A Life, an engaging new biography by Peter Ames Carlin.[...]
She was stuck in a rural farmhouse in Scotland, tasked with the care and feeding of a newborn and a seven-year-old daughter from her first marriage. Her husband was a depressed, drunk layabout who seldom got out of bed until the afternoon. Paul had stopped shaving, and his personal hygiene was non-existent.
“Here I am living on a stone floor, carrying water in buckets, and I’m married to a drunk who won’t take a bath.” Linda told a longtime friend. It was not the life Paul’s female fans imagined she was living.
McCartney was mourning the breakup of the Beatles. Sunk in self-pity, he wasn’t writing songs and went for days without picking up a guitar. But as fall turned to winter in 1969, Linda finally lost patience. “She was yelling at him to get off his ass and be a man, already,” the friend recalls in Paul McCartney: A Life, an engaging new biography by Peter Ames Carlin.[...]
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November 29, 2001: George Harrison passes away from lung cancer at age 58.
November 29, 2002: The Concert for George took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London, a touching memorial to George Harrison who passed away the previous year from cancer. The concert featured a who’s who of rock royalty; Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker and many more distingushed guests. A DVD was released a year later.
May 2002: Paul McCartney tours the U.S., I attend both shows at Reunion Arena in Dallas. The concerts are a huge hit parade of Beatles and Wings songs; it’s the first time I’ve seen McCartney live in concert. [...]
November 29, 2002: The Concert for George took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London, a touching memorial to George Harrison who passed away the previous year from cancer. The concert featured a who’s who of rock royalty; Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker and many more distingushed guests. A DVD was released a year later.
May 2002: Paul McCartney tours the U.S., I attend both shows at Reunion Arena in Dallas. The concerts are a huge hit parade of Beatles and Wings songs; it’s the first time I’ve seen McCartney live in concert. [...]
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