Linda McCartney

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Recent Role:
footage version on E! True Hollywood Story
Gender:
Female
Born:
9-24-1941
Died:
4-17-1998 (Breast Cancer (Tucson, Arizona, USA0)
Birthplace:
Scarsdale, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Linda Louise Eastman
Linda McCartney was born in Scarsdale, New York on September 24th, 1941. She graduated from University of Arizona with a BFA degree. As a photographer she started her career in New York, working as a secretary for Town and Country magazine in New York in the early Sixties. Coupling photography with her love of rhythm and blues, Linda specialized in capturing the character of the new musicians. Among the stars she worked with were: Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding and The Beatles – subsequently meeting her husband, Paul McCartney.





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Linda contributed to films as a composer, actress, writer, producer and cinematographer. Together with Paul she composed and played the music of the short film "Seaside Woman" (1980), directed by Oscar Grillo. This animated video accompanied a record of the same name, released under the pseudonym of Suzy and the Red Stripes. The short film won the Golden Palm on the Cannes Filmfestival 1980.





Linda McCartney has done much to help the The People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals. She has also worked extensively for The Council For The Protection of Rural England and Friends Of The Earth, to highlight environmental dangers. In 1989, Linda published her first guide to vegetarian cookery. The book, Linda McCartney's Home Cooking, has become the biggest-selling vegetarian cookbook ever in the UK and a best-seller in the USA, with more than 250,000 copies sold.





Besides her photography, her cookery and her many associated TV and Media appearances, Linda also played keyboards in Paul McCartney's band. In 1989-90, they performed a record-breaking world concert tour, playing 102 shows in 13 countries to some three million people.





Linda McCartney died, much too soon, 1998 in Tucson, Arizona after a three year battle with Breast Cancer.

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    Linda McCartney was a wonderful woman, a dedicated wife, and mother, talented photographer, and a passionate animal rights activist. hide show

    Okay, so maybe she couldn’t really sing too well and she wasn’t the greatest keyboard player, but really who cares? If she hadn’t of been married to Paul McCartney nobody would have thought twice about these things. What you need to remember about Linda McCartney was that she was one of the nicest people that ever lived. My whole life I have looked up to her, as a photographer, as an activist, and as a human being, and I have tried to model myself after her in whatever ways I can. Linda McCartney’s photos have been exhibited all over the world and she has published many books as well. She loved Paul very much and was a great mother to her four kids, Heather, Stella, Marry and James. She wasn’t one of those celebrities who get obsessed with having great press and looking gorgeous and making tons of money. She was happy to stay at home with her kids and her horses and her husband. I think we could learn a lot from Linda, and I would personally like to thank her for her courage. If not for her willingness to be herself and stand up for her right to do so I probably would have become another mindless drone and followed the crowd like everyone else. And oh yeah, go veggie!

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