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  Linda McCartney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linda McCartney (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998), born Linda Eastman in Scarsdale, New York, to a Jewish family, was an American photographer, perhaps best known for her marriage to singer Paul McCartney.
Although Linda was shunned by music critics for her amateur singing and playing skills, Wings garnered several Grammy Awards for their music, and became one of the most successful bands of the 1970s.
Linda introduced her husband to vegetarianism and popularized a meatless diet through her best-selling cookbooks and line of frozen vegetarian meals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linda_Eastman_McCartney   (341 words)

  
 The Summer Of Love ~ Linda Eastman McCartney
Linda graciously sent her finest photographic work to us this past summer so that the proceeds of its sale did benefit the free celebration enjoyed by over forty thousand loving spirits on October 12, 1997.
Linda Eastman was already acclaimed for her moody, gritty photographs when she married Paul McCartney in 1969.
Born into a wealthy family, Linda Eastman grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. Her father, Lee Eastman, was a lawyer; her mother died in a plane crash when she was 19.
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 Linda McCartney - Linda's Story and Linda and Paul
Linda Eastman was born on September 24, 1941 to an upper middle class family, and raised in Scarsdale, New York.
Linda’s idea of ready-made vegetarian meals was also a success; in 1991, the meals were on the shelves at popular supermarkets, and as many as five million of the popular meals had been purchased within that same year.
Linda continued to undergo treatments, and in 1998, in spite of those treatments that she had undergone for the cancer, it had spread to her liver, and she died at the family ranch in Tucson, Arizona, on April 17th, 1998.
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 Linda McCartney -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, Paul began teaching Linda to play keyboards, and included her in the lineup for his new band, (A means of flight or ascent) Wings.
Although Linda was shunned by music critics for her amateur singing and playing skills, Wings garnered several (Click link for more info and facts about Grammy Awards) Grammy Awards for their music, and became one of the most successful bands of the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s.
Linda introduced her husband to (A diet excluding all meat and fish) vegetarianism and popularized a meatless diet through her best-selling cookbooks and line of frozen vegetarian meals.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/linda_mccartney1.htm   (253 words)

  
 Manchester gallery mounts blockbuster McCartney exhibit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda Eastman was working as a secretary at Town and Country magazine in New York, spending her lunch hours in the photography section of the Museum of Modern Art.
Eastman knew the magazine would not be interested in photographing the British rock sensations, so the budding photographer took the invitation and joined the professionals shooting the band as they posed on a yacht in the Hudson River.
McCartney's Grateful Dead photos set to the band's music, as well as a 49-minute biographical documentary from 1993 by the BBC called ''Linda McCartney: Behind the Lense.'' Music from the period by bands featured in the show will be played during the exhibit.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19990812/LI_001.htm   (757 words)

  
 VH1.com : Linda McCartney : Biography
Linda's marriage to Paul, the last remaining bachelor among the Fab Four, caused a major media furor -- as a divorcée and single mother (she was briefly married during the late 1950s), she was the subject of considerable criticism from moral watchdogs and Beatles fans alike.
McCartney was more successful outside of music, earning respect as a high-profile force for animal rights; a staunch vegetarian, she published a series of best-selling cookbooks (1989's Home Cooking and 1995's Linda's Kitchen among them) and also created her own highly profitable line of frozen vegetarian meals produced at ecologically-sensitive factories.
In 1995 McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer, and on April 17, 1998 the disease took her life at the age of 56; a collection of solo recordings, Wide Prairie, was issued posthumously later that same year.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/linda_mccartney/bio.jhtml   (409 words)

  
 Lakeview Museum - Linda McCartney's Sixties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda Louise Eastman was born on September 24, 1941 to Lee (a prominent entertainment attorney) and Louise Eastman (the daughter of a rich Cleveland family, the Linders, who owned major department stores).
McCartney's career as a photographer, it is her talent of being able to translate the moment captured on film in a timeless "being there" for the viewer which has earned her a place among the great photographers of the 20
Linda McCartney was introduced to photography through the art of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, which was to influence her for the rest of her life.
www.lakeview-museum.org /McCartney.html   (1323 words)

  
 MJWEBER.COM - Linda Eastman McCartney's Most Important Photo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda was rumored to be the heiress to the Eastman Kodak fortune, a myth perpetrated by the fact she often sat with The Scene's resident millionaire, Deering Howe, as in John Deere tractors.
Linda didn't brag about it, but when people did ask she nonchalantly asserted that she and Paul were soul mates destined to be married.
Linda was inspired to capture her greatest loves in a photograph of Heather and Paul which is a work of art unto itself.
www.mjweber.com /linstory.htm   (1326 words)

  
 Linda Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1967 she went to London to photograph the Beatles and was introduced to Paul McCartney at a nightclub.
She was a real woman." Paul stayed with Linda in New York in 1968 and later that year she went with him to England.
However, her husband was not the only McCartney to have a run-in with the law: Linda herself was arrested for marijuana possession three times, once in 1975 and twice in 1984.
www.geocities.com /sexy-sadie.geo/linda.html   (858 words)

  
 Paul McCartney: Blackbird Singing: Press Release
Also of profound significance was the support of Linda, who died in 1998 and who encouraged her husband to pursue his poetry in the years before her untimely death.
McCartney's social message rings clear in his lyrics, from "Blackbird," written as a tribute to those struggling for civil rights, to "Eleanor Rigby," with its surreal image of a woman "wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door," eloquently capturing a desperate loneliness.
Paul McCartney is unquestionably one of the most influential creative forces of the late twentieth century, inspiring generations of lyricists, activists, and writers.
www.wwnorton.com /mccartney/press.htm   (553 words)

  
 George Eastman House :: The Museum :: Frequently Asked Questions :: George Eastman
Eastman was born in Marshall, N. Y., in 1854.
Eastman adored beautiful, intelligent women and always surrounded himself with them, he never proposed marriage that we know of, and perhaps was never seriously in love.
Eastman tried a number of letter combinations, creating words that started and ended with the letter K. Eventually, he settled on Kodak, a name universally identifiable and not translatable to any other meaning in any other language (an important aspect for marketing and patenting).
www.eastmanhouse.org /inc/the_museum/faq-eastman.php   (2261 words)

  
 "Linda McCartney's Portrait of the Sixties"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Young Linda Eastman recorded the scene through the lens of her camera as the first staff photographer for the fledgling publication, Rolling Stone.
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era is a selection of 50 intimate photographs of some of the greatest names in the world of rock music captured in fl and white on exquisite platinum prints and silvertone, and in color.
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era is an enduring testimony to the optimism and spontaneity of the music of the times.
www.ellasharp.org /pages/linda.html   (412 words)

  
 Linda McCartney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda McCartney, the late wife of Beatles singer Paul McCartney, was raised in Scarsdale, N.Y. as the daughter of Louise Lindner and prominent entertainment lawyer Lee Eastman.
Linda attended Scarsdale High School and afterwards became a celebrity photographer, and snapped shots of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
Linda was a staunch vegetarian and contributed to the popularity of vegetarianism in Britain, including her own food products in the 1990s.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/mccartneylinda.html   (174 words)

  
 detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda Eastman was born in 1942 in New York.
Linda McCartney introduced her husband to vegetarianism saying that she did not eat anything with a face.
Despite being married to a superstar, Linda McCartney's was always said to be her own woman.
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 LindaRemembered.com: Linda's Legacy
Linda McCartney, who died of breast cancer at age 56, was remembered as more than the wife of a former Beatle.
McCartney and Mills said their relationship was in its infancy and begged the press to leave them alone.
The Linda McCartney Centre — at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital — was opened in 2000 after a five-year campaign to raise £4 million.
www.archer2000.net /lindaremembered/lindabio.html   (3269 words)

  
 MACCA-News: Linda McCartney's photos intimate portraits of rockers - Feb. 19, 2004 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era" is a traveling exhibit that includes 51 historic, unposed portraits, each revealing a photographic artist who used carte blanche access to such iconic rock 'n' rollers as Janis Joplin, the Doors, the Who, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles to capture their souls on film.
Linda Eastman first documented the hyper-political, poignant music industry of the 1960s as house photographer for New York's Fillmore East concert hall, and then as a staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine.
But, similar to McCartney's photographs of the Beatles, she also managed to capture four guys who were coy, goofy and immature during an era when young rock 'n' roll musicians were often blindsided by instant fame and fan adoration.
www.macca-central.com /macca-news/MoreNews.cfm?ID=1475   (1043 words)

  
 CNN - Funeral held for Linda McCartney - April 19, 1998
"Linda was always upbeat about our work against cruelty, and we'll fight harder in her name," said Dan Mathews, a campaign director with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Her father, Lee Eastman, was a lawyer, and her mother died in a plane crash when she was 19.
The McCartneys were fined for possessing marijuana in 1972, and in a 1984 incident, both admitted carrying the drug.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9804/19/mccartney.obit2   (862 words)

  
 Linda McCartney...PT1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda Louise Eastman McCartney was born on September 24th 1941 in Scarsdale, New York to a family of prominence.
Her father, Lee Eastman was an entertainment attorney and her mother, Louise Linders Eastman was the daughter of the founder of the Linders' department store chain.
Linda once commented "all my teen years were spent with an ear to the radio." She, at times, would play truant from school to attend shows at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, where Alan Freed was the MC, or on certain occasions, Bobby Darin or Fabian would act as host.
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 McCartney photo exhibit now open --1/27/2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Born Linda Eastman, McCartney covered the music scene of the sixties first as house photographer of New York’s Fillmore East Concert Hall, and then as the first photographer for budding Rolling Stone magazine.
Linda was there, at recording sessions, rehearsals, backstage, on tour, and in concert -- an accepted “band member whose instrument was the camera”, as she once put it.
Linda McCartney’s Sixties: Portrait of an Era was created by the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut in conjunction with the estate of Linda McCartney.
www.ci.lubbock.tx.us /article.asp?ID=1077   (404 words)

  
 Behind The Hits: "Linda"
Her father, Lee Eastman, was one of the top show-business lawyers in the country and in 1947 a client named Jack Lawrence--a song-writer--owed him some legal fees.
Linda was too young to know that she was “sort of famous” when the song was first released.
Linda Mccartney died in 1998, from breast cancer, at the age of
www.bobshannon.com /stories/Linda.html   (407 words)

  
 "My Love"
She was a toddler, but inspiration enough for "Linda," a charming ballad recorded by big band crooner Buddy Clark.
It was the sixties; Linda married a Princeton man and followed him to the University of Arizona.
As part of her job, Linda opened mail, and one day she came across a photographer's pass to a Rolling Stones concert.
www.superseventies.com /1973_4singles.html   (733 words)

  
 Linda McCartney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"When Linda died last Friday with her family around her, it was in a place that was private to her and her family," and the family is hoping to maintain that one private area, Baker said.
Linda was apparently cremated immediately after her death, and her ashes were flown by private jet to England, there to be scattered by Paul over the fields and woodlands that she loved so much on the family farm.
Linda McCartney had put a brave face on her cancer battle, enduring painful surgery and grueling chemotherapy since the disease was diagnosed in 1995.
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 Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era - at the Bruce Museum
Linda McCartney (1941-1998) had a career as an internationally-renowned photographer that spanned twenty-five years.
Linda Eastman McCartney was born and raised in Scarsdale, New York.
Linda McCartney's exclusive photographs of the Rolling Stones taken in 1966 aboard a yacht sailing Manhattan's Hudson River marked her breakthrough into the world of music and commercial photography.
www.tfaoi.com /newsmu/nmus81e.htm   (757 words)

  
 Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era
McCartney's photographs is her preference of using only available light rather than relying on a flash.
Linda McCartney's photographs have been exhibited in over 50 galleries and prestigious museums worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England; the U.K.'s National Museum of Photography; The Royal Photographic Society, Bath; the International Center for Photography, New York; and The Reiss Museum in Mannheim, Germany.
Linda McCartney was also a vegetarian, ecologist, ardent animal lover and humanitarian.
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 CSIndy: When giants walked the earth (February 12, 2004)
McCartney brilliantly depicts the nascent Celebrity Rock Culture that she both witnessed and helped to create.
McCartney brought a compassionate seriousness to her work that is illuminating and often beautiful.
We all knew that Linda was married to a great artist; and it looks as if Paul was too.
www.csindy.com /csindy/2004-02-12/tendays2.html   (574 words)

  
 Linda McCartney Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musicians Directory
McCartney is expected to issue a personal statement later in the week.
Linda McCartney, born Linda Eastman in New York in 1941, came to
McCartney spent in a Tokyo jail after he was arrested for marijuana possession; indeed, their
elvispelvis.com /lindamccartney.htm   (2001 words)

  
 McCartney Remembered as "Spirited" Girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Linda Eastman McCartney, whose death at the age of 56 was announced last
Eastman, who died in 1991, was a prominent entertainment attorney.
Of course, Linda Eastman married former Beatle Paul McCartney in 1969,
www.jibboo.com /beatles/linda/article.html   (597 words)

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