Linda McCartney Photographs - Pictures by Linda McCartney

Publish date: 2024-06-08
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Linda, Paul, and Mary

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PAUL: "You even see Jimi Hendrix yawning. He's hanging, you know, everyone's hanging, because she made everyone so comfortable."
MARY: "She told me Hendrix would say, 'Will you come along and take pictures of us in the studio?' because

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Paul on raising the kids

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"It was lovely looking back on when the kids were tiny and the craziness of the ways we brought them up. It was fairly hippie; they didn't have conventional kid things. Mary's friends used to joke that she was a peace-convoy child. [But] they turned out g

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Stella McCartney

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Stella, Sussex, 1981

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Mary on Janis Joplin

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"My mom became quite close with the people who she photographed. ... I remember Mom saying she felt quite bad for Janis Joplin because she thought that she was a lovely girl but she just was really insecure and had to drink so much to get herself onstag

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Mary and Stella on touring with Wings

Media Platforms Design TeamMARY: "We had each other to play with, and it was always a good adventure. I'd go and watch my parents from the side of the stage. Mom would always have lava lamps and like decorate her little area with scarves and flags and things."

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Mary on the Rolling Stones

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"It was funny—that was her first-ever professional commission [in 1966]. They were having a press conference on a boat, but they could only let on one of the photographers because there wasn't enough room. They invited Mom because she had a camera and w

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Paul on Michael Jackson

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"One Christmas I got a call on my private home number and I thought it was a girl fan. So I was a bit apprehensive. I heard a [high- pitched] 'Hello?' and I said, 'Hello.' [Again in a high-pitched voice] 'Oh, hi, is that Paul?' and I didn't know how to an

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Paul, Stella, and James

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Scotland, 1982

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Stella on Johnny Depp and Kate Moss

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"That was during my degree show [which Kate walked in] when I graduated from Saint Martins. They were staying with me in the basement of where I lived in London. It was a rare introduction from my side to my mum. She got on very well with Kate and Johnny

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Mary on Francis Bacon's Studio

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"I went with her on that shoot [just months before she died in 1998]. This picture is one of my favorites. It's got that eerie feeling. I remember thinking, God, it's so stark in here, lit by that single bare lightbulb. You would imagine he would have had

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Stella (left) on Dressing Up

Media Platforms Design Team"That was a fashion moment. When people ask me when I knew I wanted to be a fashion designer, I look at that picture and say, 'Pretty early, actually.' It's hilarious, the top and the veil."

Stella and Mary, West Indies, 197

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The Beatles

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London, 1969

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Linda, Paul, and Mary

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London, 1969

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