About Linda

Linda Eastman was born on September 24th 1941 in New York. She was raised in Scarsdale, New York and was a Fine Art major at The University of Arizona. She discovered her love for photography in Arizona. started work as a receptionist for the Town & Country magazine, and was the only unofficial photographer on board the SS Sea Panther yacht on the Hudson River who was allowed to take photographs of The Rolling Stones during a record promotion party. On May 15, 1967 Linda was taking pictures at the Bag O’Nails club in london, there she met Paul McCartney. Linda was Rolling Stone magazine photographer and photographed many rock stars. She worked with Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, and The Beatles. Her photography has been featured in about 50 galleries worldwide, and has been voted USA’s Female Photographer Of The Year. They married on March 12th, 1969. Linda already had a daughter, Heather, who Paul adopted. Paul and Linda had three other children: Mary, Stella, and James. She and Paul made two albums called Ram and No More Lonely Nights and they also started a band called Wings in 1971. Linda also had her own solo album called Wide Prairie. Linda was a vegetarian, animal lover, and an animal-rights activist. In 1989 she published a cookbook called Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking. It’s the biggest-selling vegetarian cookbook ever in the UK and a best-seller in the USA with more than 250,000 copies sold. In 1991 Linda launched her own ready-made vegetarian meals. Her vegetarian food range has become so successful in the UK that her meals are on the menu at London’s famous Hard Rock Cafe. In 1995, Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer, it grew worse and spread to her liver. Paul’s last words to her were “You’re up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It’s a fine spring day. We’re riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue.” She passed away on April 17th 1998 at the age of 56.