Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney (1941–1998) was a Wings keyboardist and singer, songwriter, photographer and vegetarian campaigner whose music and images live on through her family and archive.
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Linda’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus her backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
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Overview
- Born
- 24 September 1941 · Scarsdale, New York
- Died
- 17 April 1998
- Work
- Musician, songwriter, photographer and vegetarian cookbook author
- Band
- Wings · Keyboards and vocals · 1971–1981
- Photography breakthrough
- Photographing The Rolling Stones on a Hudson River boat trip in 1966
Mini bio
How it started.
Linda studied art history at the University of Arizona and began taking photographs. Working at Town & Country, she used an unwanted invitation to photograph The Rolling Stones on a boat trip in 1966. The resulting pictures helped launch her professional career.
An eye for music.
She photographed musicians at New York’s Fillmore East and became the first woman to photograph a Rolling Stone cover with her Eric Clapton portrait in May 1968. Her work also followed family life, landscapes and animals.
Finding her voice.
After marrying Paul McCartney in 1969, Linda shared the artist credit on RAM in 1971 and joined Wings on keyboards and vocals. She wrote and sang “Seaside Woman,” released in 1977 as Suzy and the Red Stripes. Her solo album Wide Prairie followed posthumously in 1998.
A lasting legacy.
Linda promoted vegetarian living through cookbooks and launched her meat-free food range in 1991. She died in 1998. Her official archive continues to share her photography, while exhibitions and archival music releases introduce her work to new fans.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 1998Wide PrairieSolo artist and songwriter
- 1977Seaside WomanWriter and lead vocalist, as Suzy and the Red Stripes
- 1973Band on the RunWings performer and co-writer
- 1971RAMCo-artist, co-writer and co-producer
Awards
Quotes
I think you just feel it instinctively, you got to just click on the moment. Not before it and not after it.Linda McCartney, 1994 BBC interview, quoted by her official archive
Linda described how she recognised the moment to take a photograph.
Trivia
- Her formal photography training included just two night-school lessons while she studied art history.
- “Seaside Woman” appeared under the name Suzy and the Red Stripes.
- She experimented with cyanotypes as well as Polaroids.
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