Then he was gone.įor years afterwards, David was puzzled by this. But amidst all the people milling around backstage, McCartney had said, apropos of nothing, ‘I need a picture with these two boys’, and pulled them to his side. Fran and Paul didn’t know each other, even if they had crossed paths that day, long ago. At one point in the night, she came running up to David to show him a photo on her phone of McCartney with their two boys (it’s now on David’s Twitter profile if you want to check it out). Fran had come along, and she brought their two sons, now twelve and fourteen. David’s job was backstage, running through the on-stage script with the ‘talent’. Paul McCartney was in attendance (David doesn’t say but I’m guessing this was 2014). Years after that, David was working at the Grammys. ” A few months later, he did propose to the girl, who is called Fran, and they are to this day happily married.Ī few years after that tour, Linda fell ill with cancer, and she died in 1998. ’ David said, ‘What?’, and Linda repeated it. I didn’t know much about good marriages, but I could tell this was better than that. So it was that the nascent couple’s third date was at a soundcheck for a Paul McCartney gig, followed by lunch with Linda McCartney, with Paul buzzing around in the background.Īfter the lunch, Linda pulled David aside, and said, “Do you think I know about marriage?” David had seen a lot of Linda and Paul together on the tour, and they seemed pretty happy: “I’d grown up in a divorced family.
Since the tour was, at that point, near New York where the girl lived, that was feasible. Linda was intrigued and said she would love to meet this girl. They’d only been on a couple of dates but he really liked her.
One day, he told Linda about a girl he’d met shortly before coming on the tour. (After finding out that he wrote books, she took a portrait photograph of him - “Here’s your free author’s photo!” - which he did indeed use being able to write Author photo: Linda McCartney is pretty cool).
Embedded into the McCartney entourage, he got to know Linda McCartney, who took a shine to him.
I’ve posted the video below and you should watch it, but I’ll summarise it here.Ībout thirty years ago, when David Wild was a young man, he was employed by Rolling Stone to join Paul McCartney’s world tour. I recently came across an intriguing anecdote about Paul McCartney I hadn’t heard before, told by an American music journalist called David Wild. A headstone in the graveyard of St Peter’s church, Woolton, Liverpool.
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