Very rare Brian Wilson photo by Linda McCartney!

[Yorick]

Check this out!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/7x5-Rare-RC-Stamped-press-Photo-Brian-Wilson-taken-by-Linda-McCartney-/111272435913

From which period do we think this is??

[Lowbacca]

Check this out!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/7x5-Rare-RC-Stamped-press-Photo-Brian-Wilson-taken-by-Linda-McCartney-/111272435913

From which period do we think this is??

'68, I'd say. And it's not that rare..   Neat portrait, though.

[Yorick]

Sorry for hyping it up, but I have never seen it before in any book or forum thread. 

[The Real Barnyard]

Seems like the picture was taken January 1968 in New York:

[bossaroo]

[bluesno1fann]

Considering this is Silodweller's avatar, I wouldn't say it's rare

[The Dumb Angel]

Seems like the picture was taken January 1968 in New York:

Yep. I believe those pictures with Maharishi were also taken by Linda.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Considering this is Silodweller's avatar, I wouldn't say it's rare

A signed copy by Linda must be pretty rare though...

Can I just take this opportunity to say that Linda McCartney was bloody fantastic and remains one of the most unfairly vilified figures in music/entertainment history. And back on topic.

[bluesno1fann]

Considering this is Silodweller's avatar, I wouldn't say it's rare

A signed copy by Linda must be pretty rare though...

Can I just take this opportunity to say that Linda McCartney was bloody fantastic and remains one of the most unfairly vilified figures in music/entertainment history. And back on topic.

Since when has she been vilified?!
If anyone's vilified in the Beatles story, it would obviously be:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

[phirnis]

On the topic of Linda McCartney, here's a fantastic pic of herself and her husband enjoying a concert:
https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/426877898914795520

 

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Considering this is Silodweller's avatar, I wouldn't say it's rare

A signed copy by Linda must be pretty rare though...

Can I just take this opportunity to say that Linda McCartney was bloody fantastic and remains one of the most unfairly vilified figures in music/entertainment history. And back on topic.

Since when has she been vilified?!
If anyone's vilified in the Beatles story, it would obviously be:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

You must be either pretty young or just blinkered! Throughout the '70' and '80's Linda got a lot of stick, from music fans and critics alike - for her well-off background, for her piano playing, for her alleged lack of musical talent, for her singing, for her just being with Paul basically... It's only really in the period leading up to her death and since that people stopped giving her a hard time.

[bluesno1fann]

Considering this is Silodweller's avatar, I wouldn't say it's rare

A signed copy by Linda must be pretty rare though...

Can I just take this opportunity to say that Linda McCartney was bloody fantastic and remains one of the most unfairly vilified figures in music/entertainment history. And back on topic.

Since when has she been vilified?!
If anyone's vilified in the Beatles story, it would obviously be:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

You must be either pretty young or just blinkered! Throughout the '70' and '80's Linda got a lot of stick, from music fans and critics alike - for her well-off background, for her piano playing, for her alleged lack of musical talent, for her singing, for her just being with Paul basically... It's only really in the period leading up to her death and since that people stopped giving her a hard time.

This comes as a major surprise. I've never heard anyone vilify or say nasty stuff about her.
I've always really liked Linda, and she and Paul were right for each other.

Surely she's not as vilified as Yoko Ono?

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Considering this is Silodweller's avatar, I wouldn't say it's rare

A signed copy by Linda must be pretty rare though...

Can I just take this opportunity to say that Linda McCartney was bloody fantastic and remains one of the most unfairly vilified figures in music/entertainment history. And back on topic.

Since when has she been vilified?!
If anyone's vilified in the Beatles story, it would obviously be:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

You must be either pretty young or just blinkered! Throughout the '70' and '80's Linda got a lot of stick, from music fans and critics alike - for her well-off background, for her piano playing, for her alleged lack of musical talent, for her singing, for her just being with Paul basically... It's only really in the period leading up to her death and since that people stopped giving her a hard time.

This comes as a major surprise. I've never heard anyone vilify or say nasty stuff about her.
I've always really liked Linda, and she and Paul were right for each other.

Surely she's not as vilified as Yoko Ono?

Well i don't think anyone in history has been as unfairly vilified as Yoko!

From Linda's Wiki entry:

After the breakup of The Beatles in 1970, Paul taught Linda to play keyboards and recorded an album with her, Ram, as a duo. Afterwards, he included her in the lineup of his subsequent group, Wings. The group garnered several Grammy Awards, becoming one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, but had to endure jibes regarding Linda's singing. She later admitted that the early accusations about her singing out of tune in the early days with Wings were true.

...a lawsuit, which alleged that Linda's co-writing credits were inauthentic and that she was not a real songwriter, was "amicably settled," according to an ATV spokesman, in June 1972.

[Rocker]

This one was also shot by Linda:

[Moon Dawg]

 I think that Brian pic was used in an early collection by Paul Williams - title escapes me. Either that or a similar shot.

  Kind of unusual for Brian to travel to NY by Jan 1968. At least Bruce wasn't interested in kissing the guru's stinky feet!

[alf wiedersehen]

...a lawsuit, which alleged that Linda's co-writing credits were inauthentic and that she was not a real songwriter, was "amicably settled," according to an ATV spokesman, in June 1972.

Who made the lawsuit?

[Moon Dawg]

...a lawsuit, which alleged that Linda's co-writing credits were inauthentic and that she was not a real songwriter, was "amicably settled," according to an ATV spokesman, in June 1972.

Who made the lawsuit?

  Northern Songs/Maclen Music at the instigation of Sir Lew Grade.

[absinthe_boy]

Certainly Linda came in for a lot of criticism for appearing on just about everything Paul did after they married, despite a perceived lack of musical talent. While nobody connected with The Beatles has been vilified more than Yoko Ono, Linda McCartney certainly was not portrayed positively by the music media, mainstream media or even a lot of Beatles fans for a long time.

In her later years I think Paul did a lot for her reputation, saying that they never spent a night apart and so on gave an understanding of how close the couple were. But then she didn't always help herself by making statements such as "Photography isn't chemistry, it's smells and crystals". Umm...yeah...chemistry, then. When traces of meat were found in the "Linda McCartney" branded vegetarian ready meals, the media thought it very funny because Linda wasn't especially popular.

Women of my mother's generation (born 1944) actually disliked Linda purely because she married Paul. I think one can successfully argue that her talent for photography was greater than her musical talents but her presence on Wings albums hardly does any harm and occasionally is quite positive (Band On The Run, for example).

[metal flake paint]

I think that Brian pic was used in an early collection by Paul Williams - title escapes me. Either that or a similar shot.

Correct. A variation of the photo showing Brian yawning accompanied Paul Williams' article entitled "A Celebration of Wild Honey" in the March-April 1968 edition of Crawdaddy. Said photo can be found on p. 220 of LLVS.

[leggo of my ego]

I like the pic.

Brian looks zonked.

[KittyKat]

Linda was ridiculed a lot. There was one Beatles bio where an insider was quoted as saying what a terrible photographer she was, just clicking one picture after another without moving the position of the camera. Her reputation was as a groupie with a camera, not a photographer. She was using pictures as an excuse to meet and date rock stars. Her back up singing when she was in Wings was also ridiculed. A tape circulated of her singing off-key. I believe Van Dyke Parks posted that recording on his site as comedy, and that was after she had died. He had some other comedy clips, too, such as the Troggs Tapes and Orson Welles' frozen pea commercial, but I thought it was in bad taste to post that one at the time he did.

[Ram4]

Linda didn't want to be in Wings or play keyboards.  Paul sort of pushed that on her.  She would have LOVED it if John and Paul (along with George and Ringo) would have reconciled and she would move to the side and just be Paul's wife.  John's wife as we all know wasn't having any of it.  They came really close in 1975 when Wings were down in New Orleans and John was literally about to fly down to play with Paul and see how it went.  Then that bitch had to step in and "talk" him out of it.

[bluesno1fann]

Linda didn't want to be in Wings or play keyboards.  Paul sort of pushed that on her.  She would have LOVED it if John and Paul (along with George and Ringo) would have reconciled and she would move to the side and just be Paul's wife.  John's wife as we all know wasn't having any of it.  They came really close in 1975 when Wings were down in New Orleans and John was literally about to fly down to play with Paul and see how it went.  Then that bitch had to step in and "talk" him out of it.

Yoko's not the reason why there never will be a full Beatles reunion ever again.

You can blame that on Mark David Chapman and the Catcher In The Rye

[Ram4]

Linda didn't want to be in Wings or play keyboards.  Paul sort of pushed that on her.  She would have LOVED it if John and Paul (along with George and Ringo) would have reconciled and she would move to the side and just be Paul's wife.  John's wife as we all know wasn't having any of it.  They came really close in 1975 when Wings were down in New Orleans and John was literally about to fly down to play with Paul and see how it went.  Then that bitch had to step in and "talk" him out of it.

Yoko's not the reason why there never will be a full Beatles reunion ever again.

You can blame that on Mark David Chapman and the Catcher In The Rye

Oh my God, really?   Who's Mark David Chapman?  Catcher In The Rye?  Is that a baseball book?  

I was obviously talking about 1975 when John was still alive and she did prevent them for getting together (at least for that occasion of jamming together to see what would happen).

[bluesno1fann]

Linda didn't want to be in Wings or play keyboards.  Paul sort of pushed that on her.  She would have LOVED it if John and Paul (along with George and Ringo) would have reconciled and she would move to the side and just be Paul's wife.  John's wife as we all know wasn't having any of it.  They came really close in 1975 when Wings were down in New Orleans and John was literally about to fly down to play with Paul and see how it went.  Then that bitch had to step in and "talk" him out of it.

Yoko's not the reason why there never will be a full Beatles reunion ever again.

You can blame that on Mark David Chapman and the Catcher In The Rye

Oh my God, really?   Who's Mark David Chapman?  Catcher In The Rye?  Is that a baseball book?  

I was obviously talking about 1975 when John was still alive and she did prevent them for getting together (at least for that occasion of jamming together to see what would happen).

Well, at least we'll always have A Toot and a Snort!