As celebrity marriages went, theirs was an anomaly—a world famous couple who couldn't bear to be apart even after three decades. Paul stated many times that they had only ever spent 11 days apart-when he was in jail in Japan for marijuana possession.
They met in 1967 when Linda, a successful photographer, went to London to take snaps of the Beatles and was introduced to Paul at a London nightclub. Two days later, at a party, the pair clicked. "A lot of the girls I had met were just girls," said Paul. "She was a real woman."
Later that year, Linda accompanied Paul to England but, having been married once, she repeatedly told him that she had no intention of doing it again. "I wanted to be me and not have men tell me what I should be," she said. In March 1969, Linda changed her tune, and the couple married at London's Marylebone Registery Office.
The McCartneys pursued a shaggy, iconoclastic lifestyle, raising their four children in the remote countryside of Sussex and educating them in the local public school.
"Even though we have our ups and downs, we really do like being together," Paul said. "My Love," "No More Lonely Nights," "The Lovely Linda"—one of the world's best songwriters could not stop putting his feelings into music. "Any love song I write," Paul said, "is written for Linda."
Source: People Magazine
