PAUL McCARTNEY, RINGO STARR, ELSIE STARKEY & HARRY GRAVES In The Background Of Ringo’s Childhood Home.

JOHN & CYNTHIA LENNON with a fan, December 1967 or January 1968.

NEW!! LINDA McCARTNEY, Date Unknown.

Q: What is the most interesting thing you’ve learned about people in the twenty-one years you’ve been Mrs. McCartney?

Linda: It’s that people are a bit blind. They don’t see life. Being a photographer I see life, every inch of it. I’m obsessed with nature and animals and the earth; I find concrete things that distract me. Most people are the opposite…they find life boring, squirrels or sparrows boring, whereas I find them fascinating. It has to do with the way we live. It probably started with religion which leads some people astray. To fight over whose god is better has nothing to do with love or spirituality. Perhaps it’s guilt. We are suppressed and spend our time trying to figure out who we are. The most shocking thing I’ve learned concerns abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, abuse to every living creature. There is a world of little Hitlers out there. Slaughterhouses, vivisection and experimenting on animals for no reason is sick. Luckily younger people are becoming more aware.

LINDA McCARTNEY in the ‘This One’ music video, 1989.

PAUL McCARTNEY in Nice, France. 1965.

LINDA EASTMAN, 1967.

“ I became a photographer because I was turned on by the black and white photography of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson. While I was shooting the musicians who feature in the book -- Morrison, Hendrix -- I was still taking other stuff too, whatever I saw. There are so many great moments, but... my first 'greatest moment' was going to an Alan Freed Rhythm & Blues Show at the Brooklyn Paramount in about 1957 when I was a junior in high school. Little Richard, The Crickets, Chuck Berry -- who did 'School Days' for the first time and actually said, 'I just wrote this last night' -- The Big Bopper, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Dells, The Moonglows, Richie Valens, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, all the acts that I loved. They even had people like Bobby Darin and Fabian just MC'ing. Alan Freed was my hero as a DJ. It was obvious he only played the music he loved. — But seeing and hearing and hanging around Hendrix, oh, I can't even put it into words. That man... the greatest moments weren't when he was playing a concert. It was more sitting in a hotel room with him and he'd start to play and just jam all night. Or at the Speakeasy when everyone had left he'd get up and play till they switched the lights on and kicked us out. Oh, I tell you maybe the best memory of Hendrix was when he was recording Electric Ladyland, those sessions when he was playing guitar, organ, drums, everything. And then there was Otis Redding live. What a thrill. He played a concert outdoor in Central Park when I was in New York with The Animals and they asked me over to see Otis. I think he was the greatest vocalist of all. ”

— Linda McCartney.

PAUL McCARTNEY onboard TWA flight 703 to JFK Airport, New York, USA. 13 August, 1965.

LINDA EASTMAN at the Apple Press Conference. May 15, 1968.

Linda Eastman at the Americana Hotel in New York on behalf of Town & Country magazine covering the press conference held by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to announce the Beatles new company Apple Records. Linda famously slipped Paul her number that day.

LINDA McCARTNEY on stage with Wings, 1972.

PAUL McCARTNEY sailing in a Chinese junk around the Statue of Liberty. May 12, 1968.

LINDA & PAUL McCARTNEY, photographed by Maureen Starkey. Apple Office, 1969.