A classic from the Rolling Stone Archive
Her marriage to Paul McCartney was one of the great love stories of pop for almost 30 years. Now previously unpublished letters, which Linda Eastman wrote in the 1960s, reveal about the sensations for the Beatles star.
In June 1967, weeks after she started, McCartney To meet, Linda copied an American newspaper article from the gossip press in which she occurred. She sent it to her friend, Miki Antony, with an underlined text.
It said: “It is said that Beatle Paul McCartney’s latest favorite woman is Linda Eastman, a Yankee-Dooodle fan photographer.” On the back of the article she wrote: “I thought you would laugh at the attached scissors. I have no idea where you got this lie, but it only shows how truthful newspapers are. ”
In conversation with “The Observer” Antony said that he had to smile when he read it. “She was with me when she came to London for the first time,” he said. “She said:” Advice to whom I went out last night? It was Paul McCartney, and Wes was a nice evening. ‘”
Antony continued: “She said Paul really liked white rabbits, and the next day she bought a white rabbit and sent it to him. That night, she told me, called me and said: ‘Thank you for the white rabbit, do you want to come back for dinner again? ”So he knew that they had started to meet.
Paul “cried for a year” when Linda died
Linda and McCartney met in May 1967 in the “Bag O ‘Nails” nightclub in the Soho district of London. They married in March 1969, Linda died of cancer in 1998 at the age of only 56.
Antony met Linda as she studied at the University of Arizona. “She was a good friend for a year and a half. But then of course she went to the Beatles world and that’s it. “