Remembering Linda
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May 14, 1968
Late June 1968:
July 28, 1968
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Then he grew his first beard in the fall of 1968:
And sometime after the Let It Be movie was filmed, he shaved it so he looked like this at their wedding:
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Sorry Linda, Paul’s cute face (and me) hijacked your thread! To make up for it, here you are with Paul on Dec. 31, 1970. Paul with his big old beard!
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Nancy R wrote:
Question: Do you think before Paul and Linda got married she asked him to shave his beard, or did he do it on his own?
The beard had gone by mid-February (1969) when Paul was promoting Mary Hopkin's Postcard album.
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Nancy R wrote:
Sorry Linda, Paul’s cute face (and me) hijacked your thread! To make up for it, here you are with Paul on Dec. 31, 1970. Paul with his big old beard!
Great photo, such a cutie!
Thanks for the info about Paul's look when he returned from India. This is the mutton chops look I was thinking of... Paul and Linda at the film premiere of "Isadora" on March 4, 1969, 8 days before their wedding. From these photos we know he didn't have the beard at least a week or so before they were married
And from what Kestrel posted, we know it was gone by February.
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Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Question: Do you think before Paul and Linda got married she asked him to shave his beard, or did he do it on his own?
The beard had gone by mid-February (1969) when Paul was promoting Mary Hopkin's Postcard album.
Thanks Kestrel! So it sounds like he just decided to shave it and was not done just for the wedding.
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I just watched a great interview of Paul from 1984 and he was asked “Why Linda?” He answered “Woman. She was a woman, not a girl. And kind. She was very kind.” (I’m paraphrasing) Here’s the interview. He was so cute and funny! They had to cut some stuff out and mute parts so it wouldn’t get taken down, but the entire interview is there.
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Nancy R wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Question: Do you think before Paul and Linda got married she asked him to shave his beard, or did he do it on his own?
The beard had gone by mid-February (1969) when Paul was promoting Mary Hopkin's Postcard album.
Thanks Kestrel! So it sounds like he just decided to shave it and was not done just for the wedding.
It can never be proved conclusively but I suspect Paul shaved off his beard on 1st February 1969, the day after cameras stopped rolling on what was to become the 'Let It Be' project. It was definately gone by the 13th anyway.
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Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Question: Do you think before Paul and Linda got married she asked him to shave his beard, or did he do it on his own?
The beard had gone by mid-February (1969) when Paul was promoting Mary Hopkin's Postcard album.
Thanks Kestrel! So it sounds like he just decided to shave it and was not done just for the wedding.
It can never be proved conclusively but I suspect Paul shaved off his beard on 1st February 1969, the day after cameras stopped rolling on what was to become the 'Let It Be' project. It was definately gone by the 13th anyway.
That makes sense that he would want to keep the beard until filming was completely done, in case they had to do retakes or something.
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Nancy R wrote:
I just watched a great interview of Paul from 1984 and he was asked “Why Linda?” He answered “Woman. She was a woman, not a girl. And kind. She was very kind.” (I’m paraphrasing) Here’s the interview. He was so cute and funny! They had to cut some stuff out and mute parts so it wouldn’t get taken down, but the entire interview is there.
Thanks so much for sharing this, Nancy! I think another reason Paul loved Linda so much is because she was always herself, a very genuine and natural person. And in saying she's a woman, he could have meant she was mature enough in her thinking that he could trust she loved him for him, not for what he was, and would always take good care of him and provide a comfortable and stable home life, etc.
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LadyLeslie wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
I just watched a great interview of Paul from 1984 and he was asked “Why Linda?” He answered “Woman. She was a woman, not a girl. And kind. She was very kind.” (I’m paraphrasing) Here’s the interview. He was so cute and funny! They had to cut some stuff out and mute parts so it wouldn’t get taken down, but the entire interview is there.
Thanks so much for sharing this, Nancy! I think another reason Paul loved Linda so much is because she was always herself, a very genuine and natural person. And in saying she's a woman, he could have meant she was mature enough in her thinking that he could trust she loved him for him, not for what he was, and would always take good care of him and provide a comfortable and stable home life, etc.
You’re welcome!
Plus, he could already see the kind of mother she was, and I think that really appealed to him. (And he fell in love with Heather too and immediately wanted to adopt her)
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This has been posted before, but this is a recently restored home video of Paul and Linda, probably taken in 1997/1998. Another thing that was great about their life together was that they shared a wonderful sense of humor.
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Nancy R wrote:
LadyLeslie wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
I just watched a great interview of Paul from 1984 and he was asked “Why Linda?” He answered “Woman. She was a woman, not a girl. And kind. She was very kind.” (I’m paraphrasing) Here’s the interview. He was so cute and funny! They had to cut some stuff out and mute parts so it wouldn’t get taken down, but the entire interview is there.
Thanks so much for sharing this, Nancy! I think another reason Paul loved Linda so much is because she was always herself, a very genuine and natural person. And in saying she's a woman, he could have meant she was mature enough in her thinking that he could trust she loved him for him, not for what he was, and would always take good care of him and provide a comfortable and stable home life, etc.
You’re welcome!
Plus, he could already see the kind of mother she was, and I think that really appealed to him. (And he fell in love with Heather too and immediately wanted to adopt her)
Yes, they gave him a sense of family. He had always been close to his extended family growing up, so that probably meant alot to him, to find someone that he could set down roots with.
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LadyLeslie wrote:
This has been posted before, but this is a recently restored home video of Paul and Linda, probably taken in 1997/1998. Another thing that was great about their life together was that they shared a wonderful sense of humor.
I don’t remember ever seeing that! Great video! You know if she was still with us, he’d still be with her and about to mark their 50th wedding anniversary!
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Nancy R wrote:
LadyLeslie wrote:
This has been posted before, but this is a recently restored home video of Paul and Linda, probably taken in 1997/1998. Another thing that was great about their life together was that they shared a wonderful sense of humor.
I don’t remember ever seeing that! Great video! You know if she was still with us, he’d still be with her and about to mark their 50th wedding anniversary!
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Thanks Nancy, glad you liked the video!
Yes! just a little over 2 months from now will be their anniversary. Hard to believe it was that long ago! Even though I was only 8 years old at the time I still remember reading about it in the newspapers and seeing the news on TV (Yes, I read newspapers at 8, I was a very precocious child
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^ I did too at age 8. I started cutting stuff about the Beatles out of the newspaper when I was 8 in Dec. 1963! And 55+ years later, I’m still collecting clippings, magazines, etc. Who woulda thunk it?
Linda & Yoko Aug. 22, 1969 at the Beatles last photoshoot:
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Nancy R wrote:
^ I did too at age 8. I started cutting stuff about the Beatles out of the newspaper when I was 8 in Dec. 1963! And 55+ years later, I’m still collecting clippings, magazines, etc. Who woulda thunk it?
Linda & Yoko Aug. 22, 1969 at the Beatles last photoshoot:
It's interesting, both Yoko and Linda were creative artists (thinking Linda with her photography), and both had been divorced with a small daughter at the time they became involved with the loves of their lives, but other than that, they were very different too. I don't know if they ever became close friends like John and Paul were, but it's nice to see photos of them from that time.
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Paul's gray hair looks great in this.
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Yes, Linda was a creative artist--a musician and singer, photographer, created veggie dishes and designed colorful and beautiful scarves, too, among other creative endeavors. She wrote original songs, too. And co-wrote some songs with Paul on "Ram" and maybe other albums. She co-wrote some songs with her best female friend. Linda was a lifelong avid music lover, described hiding under the bedcovers listening to her little transitor radio late at night, as a child. She said being beside Paul on stage listening close up as he played his music was undescribable, unearthly, like nowhere else on earth. The best place in the world to be. She created beautiful children with Paul (and with her first hubby) and raised them naturally and creatively. I guess Linda and Paul were about 50 years old in that picture with Paul with gray hair...in their early 50's; great photo I've never seen previously. Thanks for that. I've seen that pic before w/ her and Yoko sitting on the ground at Tittenhurst. Linda was pregnant in that photo.
Stella has said Linda was very creative with her clothes, with fashion. and inspired her. Wearing 1940s hairstyles and dresses, etc. Linda inspired Mary with her photography and James with her music, and Heather is a designer of ceramics, pots and little sculptures, houseware and such. Yoko of course is more of an "avant garde" performance art type artist and also writes songs and records them on albums and streaming.
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SusyLuvsPaul wrote:
Yes, Linda was a creative artist--a musician and singer, photographer, created veggie dishes and designed colorful and beautiful scarves, too, among other creative endeavors. She wrote original songs, too. And co-wrote some songs with Paul on "Ram" and maybe other albums. She co-wrote some songs with her best female friend. Linda was a lifelong avid music lover, described hiding under the bedcovers listening to her little transitor radio late at night, as a child. She said being beside Paul on stage listening close up as he played his music was undescribable, unearthly, like nowhere else on earth. The best place in the world to be. She created beautiful children with Paul (and with her first hubby) and raised them naturally and creatively. I guess Linda and Paul were about 50 years old in that picture with Paul with gray hair...in their early 50's; great photo I've never seen previously. Thanks for that. I've seen that pic before w/ her and Yoko sitting on the ground at Tittenhurst. Linda was pregnant in that photo.
Stella has said Linda was very creative with her clothes, with fashion. and inspired her. Wearing 1940s hairstyles and dresses, etc. Linda inspired Mary with her photography and James with her music, and Heather is a designer of ceramics, pots and little sculptures, houseware and such. Yoko of course is more of an "avant garde" performance art type artist and also writes songs and records them on albums and streaming.
Appreciated reading your sweet comments, Susy, and agreed with everything you said. I feel Linda was meant to be with Paul, and to inspire the children she raised, and to make the world a much better place. She really helped people to want to eat more healthy, and also worked tirelessly for animal right as well. And her photography has inspired so many people to want to be photographers as well. We could go on and on about her talents and achievements, but I'm so glad she was there at just the right time for Paul, when he was going through so much with the breakup of the Beatles. She was such a strength and support to him. I'd hate to think what his life would have been like without her!
This is my favorite photo of them, taken by daughter Mary.