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Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman.
In 1969 she married Beatle Paul McCartney and later joined McCartney's band Wings. In the same year McCartney adopted her daughter, Heather Louise, from her first marriage to John See. The McCartneys had three children together: Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. She became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997.
She wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company) and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era. McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on 17 April 1998 in Tucson, Arizona, where the McCartneys had a ranch.
Linda Louise McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman, the second-eldest of four children, to Jewish-American parents in New York City. She had one older brother, John (10 July 1939), and two younger sisters, Laura (born 1947) and Louise Jr. (born 1950). She grew up in the wealthy Scarsdale area of Westchester County, New York and graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1959. Her father was the son of Jewish-Russian immigrants. He changed his name from Leopold Vail Epstein to Lee Eastman, and was not related to George Eastman of Eastman Kodak fame. He was songwriter Jack Lawrence's attorney, and at his request in 1942, Lawrence, while in the army, wrote a song called "Linda" in honor of the one-year-old. It was published in 1946, and recorded by Buddy Clark in 1947. John Eastman later became Paul McCartney's lawyer and manager, taking over from his father, Lee Eastman.
Actors: Jennifer Harland (miscellaneous crew), Ken Hovgaard (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Oliver (actress), George Segal (actor), Ashley Fester (miscellaneous crew), Debbie Coe (miscellaneous crew), David Lewis (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), Barry W. Levy (actor), Hiro Kanagawa (actor), Armand Mastroianni (director), Jodelle Ferland (actress), J. Peter Robinson (composer), Jamie Payton (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Wheeler (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance,Once I got fed up when you told me what to do
But still I did it, to myself I was untrue
But now I'm stronger, I can see a better way.
You better listen hard to what I have to say.
I've done it, I've won it, not running away
I got up, I got up, I got up
And I ain't going down again
I got up, I got up, I got up
And I ain't going down again
My friends have told me I was going down fast
They try to tell me not to live in the past
Now I can laugh because I know they were right
You dirty dog, your bark was worse than your bite
I've done it, I won it and here's what I say
I got up, I got up, I got up
And I ain't going down again, Yeah
It's good to know that I can set myself free
Anytime I want to I can be the real me
But now I'm telling you whatever I do
One thing is certain it will be without you
I've done it, I've won it, so be on your way
I got up, I got up, I got up
And I ain't going down again
You better believe it
I got up baby and I ain't going down
No matter what you say or do
Be on your way
Get out of here
Goodbye you dirty, dirty dog