I first heard of Linda McCartney about three or four years ago, before I liked
the Beatles. My mom and I were cutting out coupons from the Sunday paper, and
my mom happened to come across an ad for Linda's vegetarian frozen food line.
Since my mom likes telling me little facts aobut people, she decided to tell me
something about Linda. My mom asked me if I knew who Paul McCartney was.
In October 1995, when I started to get interested in the Beatles, I started
getting my mom re-interested, too. (My mom had been somewhat interested in
high school.) The thing was, though, neither of us really cared for Linda that
much, because we thought that she was responsible for the break-up of the
Beatles, and also, we thought she couldn't sing worth crap, and some other
stuff. (I know, I know, darned parental influence-but what do you expect? I
was a dopey eleven and a half year old then. I wised up when I was twelve,
though.)
When I was twelve, I heard a Wings song for the first time: "Maybe I'm Amazed".
I thought it was wonderful, and I was amazed (no pun intended) that anyone
could be in love with someone as much as Paul was with Linda, just by listening
to the lyrics of the song. I still thoguht Linda couldn't sing, though, but
later I realised that that wasn't important.
Around this time, I started to read more and more about the Beatles, and the
more I read, the more and more I realised how wonderful Linda was and that she
wasn't responsible for the break-up of the Beatles. It didn't matter
that Linda couldn't sing (even Paul didn't like her singing-he just asked her
to be in his band because of their marriage.) What mattered was that Linda
was a wonderful mother to her children, and activist for good causes, her
mental strongness, and a wife to Paul. Linda was a good mother to her childern;
she and Paul didn't have nannies, cooks, etc., and their kids weren't spoiled,
and Linda and Paul wanted their childern to have grow up with good hearts-and
they did.
What also mattened was that Linda and Paul were truly in love. They were only
apart for eleven nights during their whole twenty-nine year marriage, and they
spent practically every moment together. That sort of thing rarely happens
anymore. Those are some things I admired about Linda, but there's more.
Linda cared about her activism for vegetarianism and animal rights. She
went veggie even before it was popular and didn't let anyone bother her about
it. She stuck with her beliefs and didn't let anyone or anything get in the
way of them. I admire that.
Yet another thing I admired about Linda: it seemed like she was never ready to
give up. Besides sticking to her activism and putting up with a lot of crap
from Paul's fans, she also went on acting like normal when she was sick with
cancer. She didn't sit around and feel sorry for herself; instead she went on
as normal, and made appearances with Paul and stuff and smiled when the cameras
were on her, even if she may have been in terrible pain. She showed no sign of
giving up, and everyone said she was getting better (again no pun intended),
and that's why it was a big shock to me when she died.
The world lost a beautiful woman when Linda McCartney died.
"Yeah," I responded. "One of the Beatles."
My mom showed me this ad ans tells me that the woman in the ad is Paul's wife,
and that's when I first heard of Linda McCartney.
Another thing; she was emotionally and mentally strong. She didn't seem to
let anyone bohter her, and even when seh had take a lot of crap from Beatles
fans after she and Paul got married, Linda went on loving and staying with
Paul. Even when she was ridiculed about her vegetarianism and animal rights
beliefs, she stuck with her activism.The midi you are hearing is "Maybe I'm Amazed"
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