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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.

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

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

(http://i.imgur.com/uoCZW1X.png) (http://imgur.com/uoCZW1X)

(http://i.imgur.com/CcznMRY.png) (http://imgur.com/CcznMRY)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMTM3/z/Xo8AAOxyRNJSjnOt/$_58.JPG)

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

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

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

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 (https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/426877898914795520)

 :3d

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.

This one was also shot by Linda:

(http://www.danaddington.com/denny/denbri.jpg)

 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!

Who made the lawsuit?

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

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).

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.

I like the pic.

Brian looks zonked.

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.

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? :o  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!

The first thing people disliked about Linda was that she was thought to have supplanted Jane Asher as Paul's girlfriend. Jane was considered pretty, even beautiful, classy, etc. Linda, on the other hand, was called homely and "pushy American," and the fact that she was divorced with a child didn't help. Then she started singing with Paul, and her name appeared on credits in one or both of Paul's first two solo albums.  Then she was part of Wings as a keyboard player. All of this seemed to confirm the notion that she was pushy. According to Paul, it was his idea to involve her musically (whether he was insecure or just in love) and she was very reluctant to join him on stage, knowing she had zero experience. But again, people blamed her, thought she had pushed her way in, and thought she had no business playing with a Beatle.

I think as time went on and their marriage endured, people started to soften towards her, realizing that they were together to stay and that Paul was happy. After Linda died, the public's view of her warmed even more, particularly after Paul married Heather Mills. I think today, Linda is thought to have been a kind, warm person, a wonderful mother, a devoted wife, and a dedicated (if not great) musician.

I've always considered Linda to be way more attractive then Jane Asher! Though that's just my opinion

you kid ???

I've always like Linda and I think she's very pretty.

But, oh my goodness, was Jane Asher beautiful.

Linda said she and Paul just had fun together. RAM is amazing, and feels like a direct result of their relationship. They were in love, making music and having fun, and that's what comes through.

Woodstock, is that you?

Obviously you're taking the piss, but I commend you. Very original and excruciatingly funny!

Agreed. Linda didn't always put the same effort into her appearance as a lot of other women (Jane Asher included). In a lot of photos, she's wearing zero makeup. I think she just didn't care about that stuff very much. But in many photographs, Linda is very pretty.

http://linda-mccartney.tumblr.com/

Not that it really matters. Linda's appearance seemed to play a role in people not liking her. I always think it's ridiculous when people decide they dislike someone (usually a woman) because of appearance.

I also think Linda was a very good photographer. The closeup photo of Brian someone posted here captures his essence circa 1968 quite well, IMO.

Dude, there's no such thing as Johnstinas. There's only Brupublicans...

Or you can vote here:
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,17183.msg431341.html#new

You're just like the Man.

Always tryna keep me down.

I think Linda is great. I like her photographs and I love her harmonies with Paul. I don't even mind her lead vocal on "Cook of the House".

However, and that's a big however, her fake British accent was SOOOO horrendous. Why she (and Madonna for that matter) ever decided to "acquire" an accent that obviously wasn't their own is asisine.

Also, I thought Carl was your favourite Beach Boy, not Bruce.
So it would make far more sense if you were a Carlista

Another reason Linda was disliked in Beatles circles is that Paul wanted her father to manage the Beatles instead of Allen Klein, and Linda's brother represented Paul in the band break-up. Fans and perhaps the Beatles also thought she made Paul less hip and more boring, though I suspect Paul was always like that, going by some of his songs.

Thank you for noticing me, Little Bird...   ;D

It must have been tough for Linda Eastman with all the women throwing themselves at Paul McCartney.  I wonder if she was one of them.

I'm like Feelsflow, I take notice of other users  :)