Linda McCartney: A Portrait

by Danny Fields

Book Overview

Featuring never before published interviews with Linda and Paul McCartney, this book offers an insider's look at one of rock music's most enduring marriages. 8-page color photo section. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580631045
• ISBN13: 9781580631044
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Renaissance Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A warm and thorough picture of a friendship

I loved this book. I thought the author had a great sense of humor and a surprisingly accurate memory for the small details that make a biography so interesting. Because he knew her so well, Danny Fields is really able to share the essence of Linda and what made people so loyal to her. She was so controversial when she first married Paul, and it's refreshing and enjoyable to learn the real story from the ultimate insider. I loved it and found myself picking it up to reread sections.

You Will Love It!

Although I found that Mr. Field's writing style was hard to follow at times, I found this book to be exactly what it purposed to be: A beautiful and loving tribute to a woman whom it would have been a pleasure to know....not because she was the wife of "the cute one", but rather because she was real, believed that being a great wife and mother were more important than what people thought of her, knew where her priorities were, and rose above the criticism and the back-biting of jealous groupies and music "reviewers". I would have liked to have read more about her relationship with her children with Paul (many mentions of Heather), but just the fact that Mr. Fields wrote how wonderful they were, polite, and not at all what you would expect from "rock children", told me a lot. Linda did it all and did it with grace, intelligence, love, and charity.

IGNORE THE HORRIBLY WRITTEN REVIEW FROM BOOKLIST

To anyone with enough genuine interest in the story of Linda McCartney--if you've read this far down the webpage, you deserve to hear the truth. And not the truth as seen by a stuffy, clueless professional reviewer who can sense an easy-target book to slam a mile away. I have read over 30 books about the rock scene in the 60's and this one told me details I'd never ever heard. I rank it as extremely well-written and the author names names because there are so many great ones to choose from! This book is as much about the beatles and the stones and Warhol's bunch as it is about Linda. You feel like you are PART of the story because Danny Fields certainly was her very good friend. And he can write and involve you in a book you just can't put down...

Accurate and in depth

Whilst not all sugar coated ( who amongst us are perfect?) this loyal and loving tribute seeks to accurately quote me ( for once in my life) and paints a myriad hued picture of this complex, Libra, "always seeking balance" woman who managed to ( in no particular order) make wonderful babies, make music, take photographs, make a squillion dollars out of eggplant and remain faithful to her man for the course of her life...hats off to Danny Fields for a heart wrenching view of a much maligned woman.

This is THE inside book on Linda!

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain of Booklist, who takes the author to task for allegedly "not having gathered evidence" about Ms. McCartney. Leaving aside the fact that readers will discover that Danny Fields gathered plenty of "evidence," what more credible and meaningful information could Fields present about the subject of this perceptive biography than what he learned about her during a close personal relationship that spanned more than three tumultuous decades? If you're interested in Linda, read this book.