Today’s “Women Who Married Beatles” is Linda Eastman

 

Today’s “Women Who Married Beatles” is Linda Eastman

Linda Eastman was a receptionist at Town & Country magazine when she got her break, snapping photos of The Rolling Stones at a promotional party where she was a guest. She would go on to photograph B.B. King, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Who, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and of course the Beatles, becoming the first female photographer to see her work—a photo of Eric Clapton—featured on a Rolling Stone magazine cover in 1968.

A divorced mother of one living in New York City, Eastman met Paul during a photo shoot in London in 1967. They chatted at a concert at the Bag O’Nails and again at the launch party for the Beatles’ eighth album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band.”

A few days later they met at the NYC home of Nat Weiss, a longtime family friend. Paul asked her for her number as he was leaving and phoned before she arrived home. Because he was flying out of New York the next day, he invited Eastman to ride with him to the airport in his limo. 

“Paul’s whole demeanor—that cocky defensive shield he wore like armor—melted away, and for a moment he seemed fairly human,” said Weiss, who was in the car that day.

Eastman was a supremely confident American with a “congenial hippie-chick looseness,” according to the Daily Mail.

Plus, she was genuinely excited about rock n’ roll music and wasn’t intimidated by the trappings that accompanied it -- the press, and the pretty girls. When a stunning T.V. actress came up to his hotel room and professed her love for Paul while Eastman was there she “seemed amused,” Weiss said. Paul  was drawn to the “slight rebelliousness” he saw in her.

In 1968, she moved to London to be closer to Paul. They married in March 1969. Their daughter Mary was born in August that same year. Their second daughter Stella was born in 1971, and son James came in 1977. Paul adopted Eastman’s daughter Heather from her first marriage and The McCartney family made a home together in the Scottish countryside. She officially became “Lady McCartney” when her husband was awarded a knighthood in 1997.

Paul said Linda is the inspiration for all of the love songs he wrote during their relationship, including “Maybe I’m Amazed.”

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