#linda mccartney icons

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Linda McCartney, 1992🌼

[beatleswings]

WINGS Christmas photoshoot. 1979.

[roseisdreaming]

Polaroid of Paul McCartney in the 70s, taken by Linda McCartney.

[lindaeastman]

i’m her fan first, then human being second

[akimbo-collage]

The Beat Goes On

[glennmillerorchestra]

you're kidding.

[charlottesharlottes]

GILMORE GIRLS  1.14 - That Damn Donna Reed

[marysims3]

60's grils pt3

-jane asher

-linda mccartney

-michelle phillips

-pattie boyd

-yoko ono

-sharon tate

-maureen cox

-olivia harrison

[econhomework]

McLennon Day Fic (belated as usual)!

At any rate, I've been thinking about doing another outsider POV for a while, and this opportunity was too good to pass up. Because what did Paul McCartney do on July 6th, 1973? Why, he cancelled a Wings concert and attended the premier of "Live and Let Die" of course. And no, it definitely wasn't because performing on stage would have reminded him too much of John and he needed to listen to music that only he had made and done BY HIMSELF, why do ask??

It would make for a great canon story, Paul pining over John years after on the exact day they met and going to drown his sorrows in a very flashy film, but it also fit quite nicely in with my Holiday Series, although this time, John can be included at his side! Because I like happy endings and am not good at writing unresolved angst. Maybe one day...

[youcandrivemycar52]

The Beatles, Linda, and Wings

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Linda McCartney through the years🌼

Via Instagram🌼

[beatleswings]

WINGS. 1972. Photo taken by ROBERT ELLIS.

[rocknrollbabydollblog]

★☆THE ESSENTIAL ROCK N ROLL STYLE GUIDE (PART 1)★☆

Second-hand, thrift and vintage stores are your best friend - especially the aisle that no one can find and the corners that no one is bothered to rummage. First priority is to choose a rock muse style icon. Pattie Boyd’s cut-crease makeup, perfect pout and psychedelic mini skirts, Marianne Faithfull’s thick bangs and love for velvet and snake-skin, Pamela Des Barres’ wild locks and clown makeup, Anita Pallenberg’s chunky belts, hot pants and huge sun hats, Bebe Buell’s 70s cover girl waves and backless halters, Linda Keith’s fur hats, Ginger Gilmour’s golden ringlets and lace bell-bottom sleeve tops, Mary Austin’s skinny scarves and bohemian prints, May Pang’s octagonal sunglasses and straight jet black hair, Linda McCartney’s classy midi skirts, Lori Maddox and Sable Starr’s spandex shorts, wedgie platforms and crazy hair, Charlotte Martin’s baggier effortless Parisian style, Alice Ormsby Gore’s bohemian layering and flowy midi skirts, Jenny Boyd’s medieval-esque dresses and peasant-style, Iggy Rose’s eye crystals and makeup, and of course Miss Priscilla Presley’s perfect feline Egyptian cat-eye, black hair and ivory complexion. Groupie rock muse style ranges from where you’re going to who you’re seeing. If you’re offering your boyfriend arm candy at his Album Launch, you’re not going to be wearing the same pair of hot pants and lace-up boots that you did at his last concert. And if you’re lounging around in the studio at 12am, you’re not going to be wearing that glam paisley dress you wore backstage on tour. Groupie style is all about knowing what to wear and where to wear it. Gigs and concerts will call for a more flamboyant, and ‘out-there’ look. Style staples for concerts and gigs include hot pants, knee-high boots, snake-skin, fur coats and of course afghan coats, chunky jewelry, face gems and body glitter, halter tops and mini skirts and dresses. This is very similar to festival style if your rockstar boyfriend is playing there - however, more flowy and bohemian styles are more welcome and especially face gems and body glitter. Sun hats, lace-up gladiator boots and sandals, and peasant maxi dresses and blouses. 

Stay tuned for part 2 where I will be discussing style staples for album launches and recording sessions.

[roseisdreaming]

Paul McCartney chilling in a bubble bath, 1969.

📸Linda McCartney

[nedison]

punk rock icon Linda McCartney

[thestarsarecool]

An anecdote about the kindness of Linda McCartney:

JON RONSON: I was thinking of other people, the people I was writing about, as sort of specimens. Specimens to try and figure out. “Specimens” is such a horrible word – puzzles to try and solve. I was so concerned with trying to figure out why they were behaving the way that they did; they were like maths equations.

CHRIS HEATH: The irony being that, on one hand, you’re trying to figure out all these human things, but at the same time you’re not treating them as human at all.

JR: Yeah, exactly. And let me once again say that these were my early days of writing. This is before I became the writer that I am now. But that’s exactly what it was. I’d gone from being, you know, the bullied kid at Cardiff High to... I definitely wouldn’t say I was like a bully, because I had no malevolent intent whatsoever, but it was exactly what you just said: I was so concerned about trying to figure out why they behaved the way that they did, what made them human, that I sort of forgot that they were human. And I was getting loads of work because people loved that stuff.

CH: Which perhaps leads to the rather chilling story about an aside you once made about Paul McCartney.

JR: Yeah, it was Christmas. I had to go back home and visit my family, so the train was going to be leaving and I had to finish the column and there was, like, a paragraph missing. And I just thought, “Fuck it.” It was when Paul McCartney’s ‘Rupert the Bear’ chorus song was all over the place, ‘We All Stand Together’. It was playing at all the stores. And I wrote, “God, if I hear that song one more time… Mark Chapman shot the wrong Beatle.” I thought, “Okay, that’ll do.” And a few weeks later, I got a letter from Linda McCartney: “So are you saying that my husband and the father of my children should be murdered by the man who killed his best friend?” It was like a slap awake: I don’t want to be Victor Lewis-Smith, I don’t want to be Julie Burchill, that’s not who I am. And I should stop trying to be it. I wrote back to her, and I said, “You know, I thought you lived in icon land. I’m sorry.”

CH: She didn’t acknowledge your reply?

JR: Oh, no, she did. She wrote back.

CH: What did she say?

JR: She said, “I totally understand and thank you for listening.” It was a very nice reply.

CH: Did you ever run into her?

JR: No, never. Very recently, actually, a couple of weeks ago, I got a call from somebody saying that Paul McCartney is bringing out a book of his lyrics, and he wants somebody to interview him: “Would you want to be considered? Are you available?” I said yes, as long as I didn’t need to quarantine for ten days on arrival. I’m sure they’ve got somebody else by now, because of the quarantine thing. But I was thinking, “Wow, if I did do it, should I tell him?” Because it was a kindness, what she did. It was a kindness.

CH: And you really did take that lesson seriously at the time?

JR: Really seriously. Because I was being somebody that I wasn’t.

Jon Ronson, Interviewed by Chris Heath, 2021. Ronson also described this episode in this piece in the Guardian in 2007.