Paul McCartney

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Whatever happened to Jane Asher anyway?

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celebrityfly said:

redpanda said:

As it should be done!
Blaming the media is so old and played out. They could have come up with a better excuse.

I totally agree with you. They need to accept the responsibility for the relationship ending. You have a huge fortune, you can afford to live a very private life at some big private estate in England.

And that fact that, you know, when you marry a celebrity (or ARE one), media intrusion shouldn't be a surprise.

Perhaps this is more a complaint about most celebrities *coughGwynethPaltrowcough*, but it always makes me roll my eyes how celebrities blame the media when convenient, yet are the first ones to turn around and complain when no one pays them any notice. If you want a public life that's fine, but that's choice, and there are rammifications for that choice.
And anyway, Paul's obviously been able to live a relatively private life in the past, his kids went to a small country school with a total of 75(!!!) students. So yeah, complete cop-out.

ETA: Fangirl -- Last I heard, she's married, has three kids and owns a cake shop. She's also written a few books.

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I don't buy that he cheated on Linda. She didn't seem to me the type to put up with it. That and they were ALWAYS together. Even if he did need some time to himself when he was in a bad mood-and who the hell DOESN'T? Or maybe they had an open marriage? Either way, that was THEIR business. I won't comment if it's just rumors that can't really be confirmed.

Heather Mills is so annoying. I remember when she got into that scuffle with JLo's employees and while I felt bad for her that she was injured and her prostethic leg was kicked off, why did she keep badgering Ho? The woman wears, fur, yes. Sending her videos and harassing her about it will NOT change a thing. That and when I read the thing about her claiming credit for the wedding dress designed by Eavis and Brown (scroll to the bottom to read the info on the designer.)


(Although I still think Kim Stewart was an idiot to make fun of her. Kim WISHES she could be Mrs. McCartney)

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So, me and the Slacker Hacker are watching the Bee Gees/Peter Frampton horror show "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and I kept saying "How could Sir Paul tolerate them doing this to their music?!" and-

Then he and Linda (and George) fucking SHOW UP IN THE MOVIE?! Shame on you, mercenary pigs! *shaking fist*

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I'm not really taking potshots at Jane so much as remembering how Beatles fans got soooo mad at Linda, and constantly compared the two. Even though I think Linda was obviously better suited to him.


Although I think they both should have been buggy-whipped for the matching mullets they had at one time. Ugh!

(If someone could find me the picture I described earlier, of Paul and Linda and Heather all asleep on the sofa, I'd be forever grateful!)

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(If someone could find me the picture I described earlier, of Paul and Linda and Heather all asleep on the sofa, I'd be forever grateful!)

I do remember that pic as being in one or more biographies of the Beatles -- Paul is slumped with his eyes closed, Linda is leaning into him, and the child is on Paul's right, cuddled against him, eyes open and sucking her thumb. I think the caption said it was taken right after them being married.

And I remember the mullets -- they were cool! Linda had a Ziggy Stardust vibe going on with it.

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sezme said:

india7 said:

Well, it depends on your notion of "pretty". I think Jane Asher had that conventinal prettiness about her - she didn't look any different from any of the dozens of pretty girls back then. Linda wasn't conventionally pretty and I daresay she was actually kind of plain (and I don't mean that as an insult - I loved Linda!). But I'd read an interview with Paul where he explained that what attracted him to Linda over Jane was that Jane was just this girl. He said Linda was a woman - she'd been divorced, she had a child who she was raising alone, she had an interesting career that went beyond just sitting around looking pretty. She definitley had more substance to her than Jane, IMHO, and alot of times, that's just better than a cute face and a perky ass.

And if you look at Jane and Linda from the viewpoint of Beatles fans who took interest in the relationships, most of whom were screechy teenage girls, that's all that would matter to them - which one was more conventionally pretty. Not which one he was better suited for, not which one had really lived an interesting life that fascinated him, not which one he himself considered a woman instead of a girl. Just which one had longer lashes and better hair.

I just want to add that although I adore Paul McCartney and really liked Linda, I have to take exception to him comparing Jane and Linda. Jane dumped Paul for cheating on her with Francie Schwartz (sp?) after Jane apparently walked in on them when she came home unexpectedly. Jane, much to her credit, has never spoken about it or spoken about Paul even though she has been asked repeatedly to comment..... But as
beautifulanddamned pointed out, he was bothered by the fact that she didn't give up her career to follow him and I also think that his ego can't take the fact that she was the one who dumped him. Its fine if he wants to explain why he loved Linda and why he married her but it shouldn't be at the expense of Jane and implying that Jane didn't have enough substance for him and/or wasn't good enough for him.

Hey, don't blame me, okay? That was what I read in an interview with Paul himself. I'm only repeating what he said.

However, Paul has over the years taken small potshots at Jane which I can't understand since she has shown such restraint and class.

Yes, as he's also taken shots at Yoko Ono over the years - who has also declined to badmouth him. Yoko was the first person to phone Paul and offer her condolences when Linda died, and she spent three hours on the phone with him while he poured his heart out. Then a few days later, he just decides not to invite her to Linda's memorial service. George, Ringo and their spouses were invited, but not Yoko. That's his right, of course, but he then made some pretty snarky remarks about Yoko in the press when asked why she wasn't invited after she let him cry on her shoulder for three hours. The press went running to Yoko to get a reaction, and she wouldn't give one. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a Beatles fan, and I do like Paul, but sometimes I question his remarks to the media. But I"m sure blaming the press for his seperation will endear him to them just fine.

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India7, sorry, I might have worded my response rather incoherently, but I wasn't trying to blame you. I understood that you were quoting Paul and said that I had to take exception to him comparing Linda and Jane, not you.

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I read just about every article on Paul and this is the first I've heard about Yoko being the first person to phone Paul. Other people certainly knew earlier, and I'm sure Yoko would've mentioned it when she wrote her tribute to Linda for Rolling Stone.

It also wasn't a few days later that he snubbed Yoko, it was a few months. He didn't have the memorial service in London until a couple of months after Linda's death, and then he had the New York memorial service a month or so after that one. That second one is what Yoko wasn't invited to. Paul explained why in a 2001 Rolling Stone interview.

I have that photo mentioned above somewhere. I'll post it later tonight.

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poorfrances said:

I read just about every article on Paul and this is the first I've heard about Yoko being the first person to phone Paul.

I read it on the Associated Press newswire when Linda first died.