The Muse Behind the Song: Linda McCartney

Linda's life as a muse began all the way back at the age of 5, when she was still Linda Eastman. Her father Lee Eastman, a New York show business attorney, asked one of his clients, Jack Lawrence, to write a song for his daughter. The result was a song titled "Linda," first performed by Buddy Clark. But Linda is most famous as the muse of Paul McCartney, who once said that every love song he wrote was for Linda. Starting with The Beatles beautiful song "I Will" and continuing with Wings "My Love" and Paul's "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Calico Skies," to name but a few of the sigh and swoon-worthy songs that Paul wrote for his Lovely Linda, you can actually hear what love sounds like.

Here's a 7-year-old Linda with Jack, holding the music sheet for the song he wrote for her.

“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

Locking eyes early on with Paul at the Sgt. Pepper launch party.

Paul and I loved each other. He told me he fell in love with me the first time we met, and that was so sweet of him to say, whether or not it was true. What really mattered so much to me was that he always would tell me that he was falling more and more in love with me as time went on. - Linda

Wedding Day.

Photoshoot: Marianne Faithfull by Jean-Marie Perier

Phootshoot: Pattie Boyd in Jackie Magazine 1964

Rare Photographs: Chrissie Shrimpton by Richard Avedon

Posing with Doug Gibbons, singer with The Footprints.

This Will Be Our Year

Youthquake 2010: These images were taken by the great Steven Miesel for the January issue of Vogue. The photographs of model Sasha Pivovarova posing with up and coming bands harks back to the John French photoshoot that Pattie Boyd did with The Rolling Stones. Sasha also got to pose with Dhani Harrison for the Fashion Rocks: Here Comes the Son photoshoot way back in 2008.

Then:

Now :

Happy Crimble!

The first Christmas Message The Beatles did back in 1963. I just lovelovelove their sense of humor.

All ready for the snow. I think this was taken on the set of The Beatles special chirstmas show/skits thingy they did every year or something like that (does this sentence even make sense?). Anyroad, I'm going to the snow tomorrow, so yeah, that's why I posted it.

I'm With the Band

It’s always about being at the right place at the right time isn’t it? For Pamela Ann Miller, who lived a freewheelin’, rock and rollin’ life to be envied, it was Los Angeles in the 1960’s. Walking down the streets of Sunset Boulevard and hanging out in Laurel Canyon and the Riot House, she became known as Miss Pamela, a member of The GTO's and super groupie extraordinaire. Not only did she set out to meet all the rock stars she idolized, from The Beatles to Jim Morrison to Led Zeppelin (to name but a few), but she became a friend to many of them and so much more. I highly recommend her book I’m With the Band, which paints a perfectly honest picture of a girl in love with rock and roll and the people who made this wonderful music. What separates Miss Pamela from the other groupies is that there is actually a brain behind that pretty face, a big heart with a rock and roll soul. She comes across as a sweet, funny, honest, friendly girl who wears her heart on her sleeve.

With Frank Zappa and The GTO's.

With The Flying Burrito Brothers, lucky Miss Pamela is in between Gram and Chris.

With Jimmy Page.

On the lap of Alice Cooper.

With Keith Moon, and a Pete Townshend thrown in for good measure.

With Michael Des Barres.

And with The Beatles. She actually got to meet each one individually. Bumped into George a few times out and about LA, met Ringo on the set of Zappa's movie 200 Motels, Keith introduced her to John during "the lost weekend," and met Paul during an after concert party.