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March 12: Maybe He’s Amazed
Paul McCartney married the great love of his life, Linda Eastman, a Jewish rock and roll photographer from Scarsdale, New York, on this date in 1969. She was the first woman to have a photo on the cover of Rolling Stone (Eric Clapton in May, 1968). After the Beatles broke up in 1970, Paul taught Linda to play keyboards and the two of them gathered the band Wings. The couple had four children together before Eastman died of breast cancer in 1998 at age 56. In October, 2011, McCartney married another Jewish woman, Nancy Shevell, and he is reportedly studying for conversion to Judaism in the near future.
“I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish. They’re wonderful people. And . . . because Linda was the mother of my children, they’re Jewish- - half-Jewish -- and that’s great! . . . As long as people are good people that’s all that matters.” —Paul McCartney
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