the recording of "Ferry Cross the Mersey".[352] In 2004, he donated a song to an album to aid the "US Campaign for Burma", in support of Burmese Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2008, he donated a song to Aid Still Required's
CD, organised as an effort to raise funds to assist with the recovery
from the devastation caused in Southeast Asia by the 2004 tsunami.[353]
In 2009, McCartney wrote to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, asking him why he was not a vegetarian. As McCartney explained, "He wrote back very kindly, saying, 'my doctors tell me that I must eat meat'. And I wrote back again, saying, you know, I don't think that's right ... I think he's now being told ... that he can get his protein somewhere else ... It just doesn't seem right—the Dalai Lama, on the one hand, saying, 'Hey guys, don't harm sentient beings ... Oh, and by the way, I'm having a steak.'"[354]
In 2012, McCartney joined the anti-fracking campaign Artists Against Fracking.[355]
Save the Arctic is a campaign to protect the Arctic and an international outcry and a renewed focus concern on oil development in the Arctic, attracting the support of more than five million people. This includes McCartney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners.[356][357]
In 2014, McCartney narrated a video for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, titled "Glass Walls", which was harshly critical of slaughterhouses, the meat industry, and their effect on animal welfare.[358]
In 2015, following British prime minister David Cameron's decision to give Members of Parliament a free vote on amending the law against fox hunting, McCartney was quoted: "The people of Britain are behind this Tory government on many things but the vast majority of us will be against them if hunting is reintroduced. It is cruel and unnecessary and will lose them support from ordinary people and animal lovers like myself."[359]
Linda Eastman was a music fan who once commented, "all my teen years were spent with an ear to the radio."[374] At times, she skipped school to see artists such as Fabian, Bobby Darin and Chuck Berry.[374] She became a popular photographer with several rock groups, including the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Grateful Dead, the Doors
and the Beatles, whom she first met at Shea Stadium in 1966. She
commented, "It was John who interested me at the start. He was my Beatle
hero. But when I met him the fascination faded fast, and I found it was
Paul I liked."[375] The pair first properly met in 1967 at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails
club, during her UK assignment to photograph rock musicians in London.
As Paul remembers, "The night Linda and I met, I spotted her across a
crowded club, and although I would normally have been nervous chatting
her up, I realised I had to ... Pushiness wor
In 2009, McCartney wrote to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, asking him why he was not a vegetarian. As McCartney explained, "He wrote back very kindly, saying, 'my doctors tell me that I must eat meat'. And I wrote back again, saying, you know, I don't think that's right ... I think he's now being told ... that he can get his protein somewhere else ... It just doesn't seem right—the Dalai Lama, on the one hand, saying, 'Hey guys, don't harm sentient beings ... Oh, and by the way, I'm having a steak.'"[354]
In 2012, McCartney joined the anti-fracking campaign Artists Against Fracking.[355]
Save the Arctic is a campaign to protect the Arctic and an international outcry and a renewed focus concern on oil development in the Arctic, attracting the support of more than five million people. This includes McCartney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners.[356][357]
In 2014, McCartney narrated a video for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, titled "Glass Walls", which was harshly critical of slaughterhouses, the meat industry, and their effect on animal welfare.[358]
In 2015, following British prime minister David Cameron's decision to give Members of Parliament a free vote on amending the law against fox hunting, McCartney was quoted: "The people of Britain are behind this Tory government on many things but the vast majority of us will be against them if hunting is reintroduced. It is cruel and unnecessary and will lose them support from ordinary people and animal lovers like myself."[359]
Meditation
In August 1967, McCartney met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the London Hilton and later went to Bangor in North Wales to attend a weekend initiation conference, where he and the other Beatles learned the basics of Transcendental Meditation.[360] He said, "The whole meditation experience was very good and I still use the mantra ... I find it soothing."[361] In 2009, McCartney and Starr headlined a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall, raising three million dollars for the David Lynch Foundation to fund instruction in Transcendental Meditation for at-risk youth.[362]Football
McCartney has publicly professed support for Everton, and also shown favour for Liverpool.[363] In 2008, he ended speculation about his allegiance when he said, "Here's the deal: my father was born in Everton, my family are officially Evertonians, so if it comes down to a derby match or an FA Cup final between the two, I would have to support Everton. But after a concert at Wembley Arena I got a bit of a friendship with Kenny Dalglish, who had been to the gig and I thought 'You know what? I am just going to support them both because it's all Liverpool.'"[364]Personal relationships
Main article: Personal relationships of Paul McCartney
Girlfriends
Dot Rhone
McCartney's first serious girlfriend in Liverpool was Dot Rhone, whom he met at the Casbah club in 1959.[365] According to Spitz, Rhone felt that McCartney had a compulsion to control situations. He often chose clothes and make-up for her, encouraging her to grow her hair out like Brigitte Bardot's, and at least once insisting she have it re-styled, to disappointing effect.[366] When McCartney first went to Hamburg with the Beatles, he wrote to Rhone regularly, and she accompanied Cynthia Lennon to Hamburg when they played there again in 1962.[367] The couple had a two-and-a-half-year relationship, and were due to marry until Rhone's miscarriage; according to Spitz, McCartney, now "free of obligation", ended the engagement.[368]Jane Asher
McCartney first met British actress Jane Asher on 18 April 1963, when a photographer asked them to pose at a Beatles performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[369] The two began a relationship, and in November of that year he took up residence with Asher at her parents' home at 57 Wimpole Street, London.[370] They had lived there for more than two years before the couple moved to McCartney's own home in St. John's Wood, in March 1966.[371] He wrote several songs while living at the Ashers', including "Yesterday", "And I Love Her", "You Won't See Me" and "I'm Looking Through You", the latter three having been inspired by their romance.[372] They had a five-year relationship and planned to marry, but Asher broke off the engagement after she discovered he had become involved with Francie Schwartz.[373]Wives
Linda Eastman
McCartney performing with wife Linda in 1976
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