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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.

DENNY LAINE, PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY, and GEORGE MARTIN at George Martin's AIR studios, 1981.

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

LINDA & PAUL McCARTNEY outside the Stanhope Hotel, New York. December, 1974.

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

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

PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY during the Wings North American tour. June, 1976.

LINDA McCARTNEY, 1990s [?].

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

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

THE BEATLES performing at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany. April, 1961.

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 photographed by LINDA in Scotland. November, 1968.

PAUL McCARTNEY & LINDA EASTMAN sailing to Santa Catalina Island, California, during the Dirty weekend. June 24, 1968.

LINDA McCARTNEY’s Scotland photography. 1969—1981.

LINDA McCARTNEY on stage with Wings, 1972.

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

LINDA McCARTNEY & WINGS in Vilajoiosa, Spain. 1972.

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

PAUL McCARTNEY & JOHN LENNON, alongside JOHNNY HAMP, on the set of the 1965 television film ‘The Music Of Lennon And McCartney’.

PAUL & MARY McCARTNEY. Avenue Clinic, London. August 28, 1969.

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.

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

PAUL McCARTNEY & JANE ASHER at Twickenham Studios with actor Dick Van Dyke and his wife Margie. April 3, 1964. Photo by Dezo Hoffman.

PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY during the recording of Mary Hopkin’s Que Sera Sera, July 1969.

PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY during an interview with David Wiggs. Abbey Roads Studio, London, England. September 19, 1969.

STELLA & LINDA McCARTNEY, date unknown.

THE BEATLES playing live at Indra Club, Hamburg, 1960.

PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY at Les Ambassadors Club in London at the party celebrating the completion of filming The Magic Christian. May 4, 1969.