LINDA & PAUL McCARTNEY Outside The Stanhope Hotel, New York. December, 1974.

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

LINDA McCARTNEY during the ‘Give Ireland Back To The Irish’ rehearsal. 1972.

ON THIS DAY, May 15th 1967, LINDA EASTMAN & PAUL McCARTNEY met for the first time at the Bag O’ Nails club.

“ Across a crowded room, as they say, our eyes met and the violins started playing ... There was an immediate attraction between us. As she was leaving -- she was with the group the Animals, whom she’d been photographing –- I saw an obvious opportunity. I said: “My name’s Paul. What’s yours?” I think she probably recognised me. It was so corny, but I told the kids later that, had it not been for that moment, none of them would be here. Later that night, we went on together to another club, the Speakeasy. It was our first date and I remember I heard Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale for the first time. It became our song. “

— Paul McCartney.

Wings over America, 1976. (x)

THE BEATLES at a hotel in Weston Super Mare, Somerset, by Bruce Leak, an 11 year old boy who was on a family holiday with his parents and sister. 1963.

PAUL McCARTNEY, 1970s. Via Linda McCartneys ‘Linda’s Pix For Seventy Six’.

LINDA McCARTNEY promoting her food brand, ‘Linda McCartney Foods’, 1990s.

Remembering the lovely LINDA McCARTNEY who passed away on this date, April 17, 1998.

“ Linda means beautiful in Spanish, and my Linda was certainly that — inside and out. — Anyone who met her, however briefly, was touched by her genuine interest and gentle kindness. I never stop thinking of her as my girlfriend, even though she became my wife, my children's mother, and my Lady. — The beauty of her spirit never failed to communicate itself to those she encountered, whether they were young or old, male or female, or whatever, they were worthy of respect and so she treated them exactly the same and they invariably felt very comfortable being with her. — Our love of animals was something we discovered, we shared as time went by, and they too enjoyed the same deep respect given to them by her. Her vision of the world was, and is, a simple one. Love, kindness, respect and thoughtfulness for one another and for our fellow species and a deep distrust of people who neglect these values. I am blessed to have shared thirty loving years with this uniquely special woman, a fact which I will remain eternally grateful for. “

— Paul McCartney, Club Sandwich - 1998.

THE BEATLES with TRINI LOPEZ & SYLVIE VARTAN backstage at the Olympia Theater, Paris, France. January, 1964.

THE BEATLES during the filming of ‘HELP!’ in Austria. March, 1965.