Remembering Linda
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1977, pregnant with James
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The Beatles last photo session, taken a few weeks before Mary was born
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No, that was taken Aug. 22, 1969, six days before Mary was born!
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Another photo from Aug. 22, 1969
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And a family photo 6 days later!
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thanks, Nancy! Didn't know Mary was born so soon after the last Beatles photos were taken. Love all the happy family pics!
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Circa 1970
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Love that photo of Paul and Linda. After Linda moved in with him in fall of 1968, he grew a beard, then by the time they married, he shaved it off, then grew it back again when they went to Scotland. Always thought he looked great with a beard, but I know many fans prefer the clean shaven look
Love these photos of newborn baby Mary. Even when she's crying or yawning she looks just like her Daddy, lol (Maybe she was instictively trying to sing Long Tall Sally but didn't know the words yet! lol) Such a sweet baby.
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I always liked Linda's singing on various songs by Paul over the years -- she had a pleasing child-like voice, and I think Paul relaized her voice was an asset. Examples: Longhaired Lady, I Am Your Singer, the Medley on Red Rose Speedway, etc. And I recently discovered a Linda album Paul produced which is delightful, "Wide Prairie".
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We can make it to Mexico City wrote:
I always liked Linda's singing on various songs by Paul over the years -- she had a pleasing child-like voice, and I think Paul relaized her voice was an asset. Examples: Longhaired Lady, I Am Your Singer, the Medley on Red Rose Speedway, etc. And I recently discovered a Linda album Paul produced which is delightful, "Wide Prairie".
Yes, she had a lovely singing voice. I remember reading somewhere that he even used her backing vocals for some of the high notes in Let it Be... with a few other girls... that was late 1968 or early 1969, not sure of the recording dates. Would love to hear her album Wide Prairie... wasn't that originally a project she and Paul created for her pseudonym "Susie and the Red Stripes"? (when she recorded a single "Seaside Woman")
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LadyLeslie wrote:
We can make it to Mexico City wrote:
I always liked Linda's singing on various songs by Paul over the years -- she had a pleasing child-like voice, and I think Paul relaized her voice was an asset. Examples: Longhaired Lady, I Am Your Singer, the Medley on Red Rose Speedway, etc. And I recently discovered a Linda album Paul produced which is delightful, "Wide Prairie".
Yes, she had a lovely singing voice. I remember reading somewhere that he even used her backing vocals for some of the high notes in Let it Be... with a few other girls... that was late 1968 or early 1969, not sure of the recording dates. Would love to hear her album Wide Prairie... wasn't that originally a project she and Paul created for her pseudonym "Susie and the Red Stripes"? (when she recorded a single "Seaside Woman")
Let It Be was originally recorded at Apple studios Jan. 31, 1969
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song)
Read about Wide Prairie here:
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Nancy R wrote:
LadyLeslie wrote:
We can make it to Mexico City wrote:
I always liked Linda's singing on various songs by Paul over the years -- she had a pleasing child-like voice, and I think Paul relaized her voice was an asset. Examples: Longhaired Lady, I Am Your Singer, the Medley on Red Rose Speedway, etc. And I recently discovered a Linda album Paul produced which is delightful, "Wide Prairie".
Yes, she had a lovely singing voice. I remember reading somewhere that he even used her backing vocals for some of the high notes in Let it Be... with a few other girls... that was late 1968 or early 1969, not sure of the recording dates. Would love to hear her album Wide Prairie... wasn't that originally a project she and Paul created for her pseudonym "Susie and the Red Stripes"? (when she recorded a single "Seaside Woman")
Let It Be was originally recorded at Apple studios Jan. 31, 1969
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song)
Read about Wide Prairie here:
Thanks for the info Nancy! Would love to get a copy of Wide Prairie.
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Found this video on YouTube of Procul Harum performing "Whiter Shade of Pale."
Paul and Linda met at the Bag O'Nails Club in London in 1967... and before the end of the evening, this song (Whiter Shade of Pale) was played at another nightclub they went to. I read somewhere that Paul and Linda considered it "their song," will have to find where I saw that, maybe someone else knows.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/05/15/paul-mccartney-meets-linda-eastman/
From: Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
The Speakeasy was a club on Margaret Street, where they [Paul and Linda] heard Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale for the first time.
Paul: The night I met Linda I was in the Bag O'Nails watching Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames play a great set. Speedy was banging away. She was there with the Animals, who she knew from photographing them in New York. They were sitting a couple of alcoves down, near the stage. The band had finished and they got up to either leave or go for a drink or a pee or something, and she passed our table. I was near the edge and stood up just as she was passing, blocking her exit. And so I said, 'Oh, sorry. Hi. How are you? How're you doing?' I introduced myself, and said, 'We're going on to another club after this, would you like to join us?'
That was my big pulling line! Well, I'd never used it before, of course, but it worked this time! It was a fairly slim chance but it worked. [Thought while posting on Maccaboard: Like it wouldn't have worked? lol ] She said, 'Yes, okay, we'll go on. How shall we do it?' I forget how we did it. 'You come in our car' or whatever, and we all went on, the people I was with and the Animals, we went on to the Speakeasy.
Linda: We flirted a bit, and then it was time for me to go back with them and Paul said, 'Well, we're going to another club. You want to come?' I remember everybody at the table heard A Whiter Shade Of Pale that night for the first time and we all thought, Who is that? Stevie Winwood? We all said Stevie. The minute that record came out, you just knew you loved it. That's when we actually met. Then we went back to his house. We were in the Mini with I think Lulu and Dudley Edwards, who painted Paul's piano; Paul was giving him a lift home. I was impressed to see his Magrittes.
The pair met again four days later, on 19 May 1967, when Eastman attended the press party for Sgt Pepper at Brian Epstein's house at 24 Chapel Street, London.
Love this story The lyrics make no sense to me, lol, but they're great, and I really love the song...
"As the miller told his tale," is no doubt a reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (My very elderly English teacher in High School had us memorize the opening lines of the Canterbury Tales in their original medieval English... eek, still remember how to say it, lol)
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I love “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” and even downloaded it off iTunes a long time ago!
We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a trayAnd so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of paleShe said, 'There is no reason'
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as well've been closedAnd so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale -
Since the first time I heard 'Come on to me', I felt like he was singing about that night at the Bag O'Nails when she met Linda for the first time.
Maybe it isn't, maybe unconsciously , it just fits for me. And of course, it makes me like the song even more.
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FC15 wrote:
Since the first time I heard 'Come on to me', I felt like he was singing about that night at the Bag O'Nails when she met Linda for the first time.
Maybe it isn't, maybe unconsciously , it just fits for me. And of course, it makes me like the song even more.
I'm sure Paul would have written a song about Linda after meeting her, because she definitely made an impression on him. Who knows, she could have been the inspiration for "Why Don't We Do it in the Road." lol He wrote so many beautiful songs for her from 1969 until her death, and their love shines through in each and every one of them!
Love listening to "Come on to me." It's got a really great sound, with very enticing lyrics. We don't know for sure if a particular person inspired him to write it (I'm sure they'd be very honored and flattered! ) or if he was just writing about the subject of a man in his position dealing with temptation, but this song should prove to all conspiracy theorists once and for all that Paul definitely is not dead, lol... he's always been very much alive, and will continue making his music and singing his songs for quite a while yet.
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FC15 wrote:
Since the first time I heard 'Come on to me', I felt like he was singing about that night at the Bag O'Nails when she met Linda for the first time.
Maybe it isn't, maybe unconsciously , it just fits for me. And of course, it makes me like the song even more.
That’s what I said in other thread!
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LadyLeslie wrote:
FC15 wrote:
Since the first time I heard 'Come on to me', I felt like he was singing about that night at the Bag O'Nails when she met Linda for the first time.
Maybe it isn't, maybe unconsciously , it just fits for me. And of course, it makes me like the song even more.
I'm sure Paul would have written a song about Linda after meeting her, because she definitely made an impression on him. Who knows, she could have been the inspiration for "Why Don't We Do it in the Road." lol He wrote so many beautiful songs for her from 1969 until her death, and their love shines through in each and every one of them!
Love listening to "Come on to me." It's got a really great sound, with very enticing lyrics. We don't know for sure if a particular person inspired him to write it (I'm sure they'd be very honored and flattered! ) or if he was just writing about the subject of a man in his position dealing with temptation, but this song should prove to all conspiracy theorists once and for all that Paul definitely is not dead, lol... he's always been very much alive, and will continue making his music and singing his songs for quite a while yet.
Paul saw two dogs “doing it” in the road, that’s where the inspiration for that song came from.
And in 1968, he wrote I Will and Birthday for Linda. Of course the biggest one was Maybe I’m Amazed in the fall of 1969.
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Nancy R wrote:
LadyLeslie wrote:
FC15 wrote:
Since the first time I heard 'Come on to me', I felt like he was singing about that night at the Bag O'Nails when she met Linda for the first time.
Maybe it isn't, maybe unconsciously , it just fits for me. And of course, it makes me like the song even more.
I'm sure Paul would have written a song about Linda after meeting her, because she definitely made an impression on him. Who knows, she could have been the inspiration for "Why Don't We Do it in the Road." lol He wrote so many beautiful songs for her from 1969 until her death, and their love shines through in each and every one of them!
Love listening to "Come on to me." It's got a really great sound, with very enticing lyrics. We don't know for sure if a particular person inspired him to write it (I'm sure they'd be very honored and flattered! ) or if he was just writing about the subject of a man in his position dealing with temptation, but this song should prove to all conspiracy theorists once and for all that Paul definitely is not dead, lol... he's always been very much alive, and will continue making his music and singing his songs for quite a while yet.
Paul saw two dogs “doing it” in the road, that’s where the inspiration for that song came from.
And in 1968, he wrote I Will and Birthday for Linda. Of course the biggest one was Maybe I’m Amazed in the fall of 1969.
I thought it was monkeys, lol, from when they were in India, but the idea is the same When I said Linda could have been the inspiration, was thinking of who he could have been asking the question to, in the title of the song, lol
Thanks for the info. I knew "Birthday" was written for Linda, but didn't know "I Will" was also. It's such a beautiful song, and the words "Love you forever and ever, love you with all my heart" definitely fit!