Linda Eastman’s marriage to Paul McCartney goes down as one of pop’s greatest love stories. Not too long ago, letters written by Linda in the 1960s – once written for Paul’s eyes only – were published. Her letters reveal the pure excitement she felt about dating the Beatles star and being commissioned to photograph other “groovy” bands of the time.
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Linda was the first of Paul’s three wives, but had she lived past the age of 56 instead of passing away from breast cancer in 1998, chances are she would have been his one and only. It was a tragic loss for the Beatle, who reportedly “cried for a year” after her passing. Such a love story tends to happen once in a lifetime – if that.
This is Paul and Linda’s tale of love and loss…