The names of all the authors of the books/articles/interviews that will be quoted can be found at the end of each chapter.
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Tony Barrow:Linda Eastman came into Paul’s life a couple of years before Jane left him. I remember checking her accreditation as a freelance photographer when she came to The Beatles’ New York press conference in 1966.
PAUL:Before I met Linda, I had been to a clairvoyant in Brighton and she told me, “You’re going to marry a blonde and have four children.” “A blonde? My girlfriend’s a redhead and we surely don’t intend to have four children.” Most people thought I was due to marry Jane Asher - I rather thought I was, too.
Eva Petulengro:Next through the door bounds a very lively Paul McCartney. Beaming and full of energy, he throws himself onto the seat and says, ‘Come on then, what have you got to tell me?’ I think he is a little surprised when my reading reveals that Jane Asher, his girlfriend, will not be the one he marries. I tell him that he will meet someone from America and have a very good marriage to her. Someone very artistic and who does in fact share some of Jane’s qualities. Both are fair in colouring, both are great cooks and independent in their careers.
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This story begins in May 1967...
Danny Fields:Paul McCartney, in May 1967, was the most glamorous young man in London, perhaps the world. There are currently 177 books about the Beatles, and twenty-three about Paul alone which provide ample descriptions of his lofty status at the time. Publicly, he was 'going steady' with actress Jane Asher, with whose utterly fabulous upper-middle-class London family he'd lived since 1963 and who was now in residence at his town house on Cavendish Avenue, in the St John's Wood area of London, a prosperous neighbourhood but by no means Mayfair or Belgravia. In May Jane was in a play that was touring America and Paul was on the town. On the night of 15 May, he was at a trendy Soho club called the Bag O'Nails, where his friends Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were performing.
Howard Sounes:In years gone by the club had a seedy reputation, a place to meet working girls in an area frequented by prostitutes, but it was now a premier hangout. The Beatles patronised the Bag o' Nails partly because it stayed open late, going there after recording in the studio to get a drink and a steak sandwich, chat to friends and listen to live music. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were on stage when Paul, Dudley Edwards and Prince Stash (both lived with Paul at the time) walked in that spring evening. The club was already full of people Paul knew, including Tony Bramwell and Peter Brown from NEMS.
Peter Brown:One night Chas Chandler, the former bass player of the Animals, took Linda to a popular club called the Bag of Nails to hear Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. Paul and I were at the "Bag" for a drink after he had finished a long mixing session, and I introduced Linda to him.
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