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Title: Linda McCartney: A Portrait by Danny Fields, Allan Smithee ISBN: 1-84197-177-4 Publisher: Clipper Audio Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $63.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than I thought!
Comment: Band on the Run was made famous by Paul McCartney and Wings, one of the members of the band was Paul's wife Linda. This book is a deep look into her life and what she gave not only to Paul, but the Beatles, Wings and Paul himself.
Fields writes a book that almost brings Linda alive and gave this reader a real sense of the person that the media had only a glimpse of. Fields delves into Linda's relationship with the Beatles and you get to decide of she had anything to do with the break up.
The book has some pictures, I think there should have been a few more, spanning Linda's career and they are all black and white. Again the pictures could have been in color, but this small drawback will not in anyway detract from the excellent read of the book.
The book follows Linda from singer in Wings to animal rights activist and everything in between. Throughout the entire book you are treated to many first time stories from friends and family. One other thing I really liked was the way the author shows Paul's emotions without going to far overboard. Overall and excellent read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Quite Enough
Comment: I have been wanting to read an intimate biography of Linda McCartney for some time now, so I was anxious to read this book. Written by her long-time close friend, Danny Fields, I would have expected a bit more. Even though the book delves deeper into Linda than any book on the Beatles has been able to, it still wasn't quite enough. A lot of what Fields says about her childhood and teen years, before he met her, is conjecture. There is very little detail about that period of her life. Fields knew her best in the mid-sixties when, as a single mother in New York City, Linda entered the then embryonic world of rock photography. There really was no rock press at the time, and Linda got in on the ground floor, and was able to be a part of a scene that very few people could imagine today.
While Fields vacillates from defending Linda to criticizing her, he is more than fair in his assesment, and, at times, a bit overboard in his praise of her. Although I didn't feel I knew Linda much better after reading the book, one point in Linda's favor became very clear. She was a very strong woman, with self-confidence and a deep, abiding love for her husband and children. She weathered storms I cannot imagine most women being able to handle. And, when the slings and arrows were aimed solely at her, instead of wallowing in self-pity, she felt instead a sense of pain for what the embarrassment caused Paul and her children to suffer.
This book doesn't shed a tremendous amount of light on Linda Eastman McCartney, but it is still valuable for the brief glimpse into the woman before Paul.
Rating: 3
Summary: Enjoyable, Light and Fluffy
Comment: I became interested in the book after seeing the TV Movie. Linda McCartney did have an incredible life...although as one reviewer stated all her "pain and suffering" of her life I missed that part.Yes the loss of her mother was sad (but it is sad for all of us who lose their mother). Linda was not some "poor" single mom trying to eeek out a living though. She came from wealth and married even more wealth, although from this book and more so from the video "Wingspan" you can see that is definitly not why she married Paul McCartney.She loved him and was devoted to him, as he was to her. As a friend though I dont know what would compel Danny Fields to write about how cheap the McCartneys were,eg: not having taxi money cause people were happy to have them in their cabs for free..etc. The other thing that upset me but seems to be true in the story (Paul McCartney had final say over the original draft)was how Linda dumped her friends and did not try to get in touch with them. If they were her friends I am sure they would have kept her secrets.For most of the book she is portrayed as this loving, kind, warm, sensitive human being....yet the dumping of friends would indicate otherwise, although he was(is) such a private person, maybe this was something he needed and wanted at the beginning of their relationship.Of course Wingspan is a more in depth portrait of Linda and Paul's relationship, but of course that is a super positive portrayal as the interviewer is Linda and Paul's daughter, Mary and Paul himself. Pretty good book if you want a surface picture of Linda McCartney only, if you are curious about Linda and Paul's relationship watch Wingspan.
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