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Linda McCartney
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Linda McCartney was born Linda Eastman in 1941 in Scarsdale, in the state of New York. Her father was an entertainment lawyer. She herself chose photography. She began in the mid-1960s at the magazine Town & Country, where she soon received assignments to photograph musicians. By the end of that decade she was a regular at the New York concert hall Fillmore East, where she worked as house photographer. She was the first woman to have a photograph on the cover of the magazine Rolling Stone, and her photographs later hung in the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other places.
Music and breakthrough
After the break-up of the Beatles in 1970 she made the album RAM together with her husband Paul McCartney. She had learned to play keyboards from him. In 1971 they founded the band Wings, in which she played keyboards and sang harmonies. She continued to perform with Paul until 1993, even after Wings broke up in 1981. In 1998, after her death, the album Wide Prairie appeared.
Influence
Linda McCartney was also active for animal rights. She wrote vegetarian cookbooks, and together with her husband she started the company Linda McCartney Foods. In School of Rock she appears as a photographer: the photo of Hendrix with a group of children on the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park is by her. It shows that with her camera she stood close to the music, before she played in it herself. She died in 1998.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1971RAM
- 1998Wide Prairie
In School of Rock
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- Magazine: Cut, Paste and ScandalNL Magazine