Paul McCartney discusses grieving Linda in an interview with BBC Radio 2 in October 1998. #paulmccartney #grief #griefandloss #lindamccartney #oobujoobu
I remember seeing an interview with him and he said he cried every day for a year. He kept expecting her to appear from around the corner. One of his childhood memories is when his mother died. His father stayed strong in front of everyone but one day he heard his father crying alone in the room next to him. People forget that he is human just like the rest of us.
@@elizabethfonseca922 Are you normally this butt hurt when people comment ? You will find opposite opinions on RUclips, hope you realize that. Get a crash helmet ?
My son died suddenly 6 months ago. Paul singing, "Let it Be" is,for me, very special. I hold onto his lyrics, "there will be an answer". The pain of losing my son is impossible to describe and I would not want anyone else to ever have to suffer the loss of a child.
Bonjour Je suis touché par votre commentaire, j'ai vécue et vie en ce moment des choses difficiles de la vie ,je pense que la mort n'existe pas chaque être disparu est dans notre cœur et pensse et tant que ns en parlons ils sont toujours presents Je suis de tout ❤️ avec vous vos proches et votre fils
I lost my son suddenly at age 32 of a heart attack. this was in 2017 he was running a marathon in Florida. we still grieve every day but know that he’s in heaven.
i sing "let it be" to my disabled grandson and he falls asleep...loves the song. I lost a sister to brain cancer at a very young age, it's tough. She was sick for years, we've had two sudden teen deaths in my family, ages 14 and 17 both very sudden and unexpected. Peace to you.
Time heals by making you forget..but I don’t want to forget but I want the pain to stop. That is the best definition of the paradox of grief that I've ever heard.
I met Paul and Linda McCartney at Billboard Magazine in 1972- 9000 Sunset LA. My Uncle Peter Heine was director of advertising for Billboard. Paul and Linda were there to sign the advertising agreement for Wings first album that had the 007 soundtrack for Live and Let Die on it. After introducing me to Paul and Linda Peter asked if the three of us could keep each other company while he went down the hall and made a correction to the contract. He said it was going to take him about 15 minutes. We said sure and Peter went down the hall. So I was left alone with Paul and Linda McCartney at the top floor of 9000 Sunset in the southern conference room. I was alone with Paul and Linda for about 15 minutes looking out the window at Los Angeles. Paul and Linda were an elegant couple and their manners were fantastic. I was 13 years old and they treated me like a grown up. It was just like talking to some friends of my Uncle's in the living room. Later that day on my way home with my Uncle Peter asked me how I liked Paul and Linda. I said "They seem like regular people to me." My Uncle replied "They are regular people with exceptional jobs." Thank you for your kindness Paul I haven't forgotten. Take care and be well.
And then he went to the studio, gathered some friends and recorded Run Devil Run, a solid album, full of energy and pure rock and roll, an almost forgotten release that brought Macca back to his roots. A truly honorable way to release the pain of missing his beloved Linda.
Linda was truly special and everyone knows that. People don't really die, that's my belief. The soul keeps existing, only the material body disappears. I hope the McCartneys think so too. Stay at peace, beautiful family. ❤
I lost my father to pancreatic cancer when I was a freshman in high school back in 1969. I still get misty-eyed when I think of that loss. Thank you, Paul, for sharing.
We lost out son age 24, to a drunk driver hitting him. We still have each other, and we know how hard losing one of us will be. God bless you, loved you since age 14. Thank you for all the joy you've given me in this life.
I lost my beautiful husband two months ago to the monster named cancer. I have never felt so much pain and loss. I miss him so much. I can't even leave our bedroom and I just cry. I am here all alone and still expect to see him lying beside me. I call his name, knowing he won't be coming. He suffered so much but was so sure he could beat it and stay here with me. The treatments were so hard on his mind and body that I am glad he is out of that pain now. I will love him forever. We were together for 47 years and I cherish the memory of every one!!
I lost my wife to cancer in 2012. We were together for 30 years. She was 52, I was 54, we had all the usual plans for when we retired, as we'd paid off the mortgage, the 'kids' had left home, it was going to be our time. It is bloody hard. My son and daughter were fantastic. We became a sort of mutual support group, and still are. Time does heal, but it doesn't make it any easier. Good to hear Paul talk about it👍
In time the pain softens, the heart doesn't ache with longing and you can breathe again but you do not ever forget. I found my strong grief for my mother to be surrealistic and horrifically paralysing and also mesmerisingly beautiful. I felt cocooned by invisible spirits close by to soften the blows of painful reality as the weeks, months, years wore on. Nothing made sense but it was all perfect because it was just for me to ponder my mother. No intruders. Totally self absorbing and true.
I felt every word ... Luv will get you through ... Family loves you .... Fans love you ... Ringo loves you ... and I love you & Linda ... the Shutter Clicks and I'll find a place on the mantle Piece. ❤
Unfortunately, loss of a loved one is a part of life. Knowing this doesn’t make it any easier to live with or to accept. Paul, like all of us, has suffered a lot of loss in his life. He lost his beloved Mom at an early age; he lost his very special Dad; I’m sure he’s lost other close family members; he lost his band mates through a type of divorce; and then he lost John and George, both to premature deaths. All of these losses are painful. Each one of them hurts, but I think, the biggest hurt that never seems to heal, is the loss of “the love of your life”. The love of your life (your heart’s desire, the who “holds the other key to me” as Paul sang in “My Love”) is like the death of the deepest part of you. It never goes away. You carry it with you daily. You never stop missing her. But as sad as you are, you have to keep moving and breathing and functioning no matter how much you miss her. You have to do it for yourself and for those around you who depend upon you for strength and courage and leadership because they’re hurting too, and it breaks your heart to see their suffering. So you try to find purpose or positive, not self destructive “distractions” to help you make it through each day. This interview with Paul is like a course on grief and on how to cope with it. I have been a huge Paul McCartney fan for years. I love his music and the genius of his creativity both musically and lyrically. I am also a huge fan of the man he is. He’s levelled headed and an extraordinary regular guy. He’s wise and mature, and I highly respect him. For years, Paul has been holding up a sign that reads, “follow me”. I don’t want to be Paul McCartney, but I do want to learn from the example he sets. Thanks Paul!
I have always felt this man is a class act, level headed, empathetic, wildly talented, and very grounded. Lovely man with a heart full of love for his Lovely Linda.
You never get over it when someone you love dies, grief lasts forever, and after some time you just get used to them being gone to a certain degree. But you carry on and live life. laugh and find joy and you talk about the person with the other people who love and miss them for the rest of your days.
Your a very special man Paul. I'm in Heaven just to look at you and hear your music since I'm 5 years old. My parents introduced their children to the Beatles music at a very young age. Knowing the joy your music brings to others hopefully will help you cope in your loss. Just knowing others Love you and care. And pray to Our Lord Jesus Christ for comfort. He will help you. You're the Best!!!!! Ever!!!!! And the Band Wings...RAM especially is my favorite...after...Songs...I Saw Her Standing there....and Hey Jude...I use to get so made at 5 years old... mind you....because we couldnt hear your music when you'd perform on TV...at Shea Stadium..in NY City. I think it was because of all the teenage girls screaming for you Fab 4. God Bless.
I don't think of time's healing as forgetfulness. Rather, I think that life's demands intervene and that space our loved one inhabited in our lives recedes naturally. It is difficult to allow this to happen and we cling to the memories, even to the grief if it will extend the slightest contact with the deceased beloved. Grief is hard work and often needs the help of others who can accompany the walking on we all must do. Gratitude helps and faith is a tremendous gift.
Grieving always brings a modicum of guilt (for me at least). Guilt about, did I do enough to make them happy and, wasn’t I unnecessarily mean or unkind that time. You should definitely be kind to your loved ones or pets. You’ll have trouble forgiving yourself if you weren’t when you lose them.
Linda, la beauté l'intelligence, la femme, la maman, la complice, l'éducation, la classe quoi ce que je pense c'est que Paul est exactement le meme en homme ,la bonté l'amour de son prochai A la famille McCartney je vous envoie tout mon amour pour celui que vous m'avez transmis
There are no words that can be said. It will be ok someday, so we’ll just have to wait until it is. There are different beliefs concerning these things, but we still have to wait.
@@cardona89 don't believe everything you read. How could someone who lived in a council house, equivalent to welfare in the USA, afford to attend a British elite school?
I saw an interview with Linda in which she said, she used to borrow £5 from people who came to interview her, as Paul would not let her to have access to their money!!! She said that!! The reporter said how everything was broken in their house and he said he was so sorry for her. I can't forget this very sad interview.😢.
That man who claimed that Linda said these things in an interview was an embittered cookbook writer who had a huge grudge to grind because he felt he had been bested in a business deal with McCartney related to Linda's cookbooks and frozen foods. Paul himself didn't carry money back in those days. He and Linda neither of them carried money. They were sort of living a hippie life at the time. There is a story Paul was buying his children ice cream once and he realized he had no cash. Someone else paid for it. His fashion designer daughter Stella said she had to earn her own money to buy new clothes, so she learned to make her own. This in turn made her a huge success. This was Paul and Linda both - it was how they wanted to live. People who value money and objects just didn't get it. They expected to see comfort and luxury and saw the usual chaos of a family of modest means with four children. Linda used to joke about how little she cared about objects, and she wasn't at all house proud. Now that Paul is with a different woman, he lives a far more affluent lifestyle. This reenforces the fact that it was Linda who preferred the stripped down lifestyle more than Paul.
@@yes2day100 nethertheless, she was always borrowing money! Usually a fiver and those day one could buy everything for dinner for that much. So many people have said how stingy with money he was then. He cut his children pocket money. There's too much evidence from so many people! They all weren't against him, they were relating what they had observed! He insisted on Linda to be included as a member of his group, so he gets two cuts of the money!! They were rowing about that constantly. But, who cares, Linda is dead. Beatles aren't bigger than Jesus! What a cocky thing to say! I always preferred " Rolling Stones "!
@@E-Kat Linda was from a wealthy family. Her father was an extremely successful lawyer and literary agent. She was also a beneficiary of her mother's trust fund (her mother came from a wealthy family herself), and so Linda had plenty of money of her own. She didn't need to ask Paul for money. She and Paul chose to walk around without cash. I think they got a kick out of it. To say she was "always" borrowing money is ridiculous, and you have no evidence to support that claim. You obviously have some kind of hostility towards Paul, but that woman wanted for nothing. It is cruel to say that Paul was mean to this woman that he loved so much. As for the Stones, well, Mick Jagger is about as stingy as they come - he is infamous for it - so fans who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I remember seeing an interview with him and he said he cried every day for a year. He kept expecting her to appear from around the corner. One of his childhood memories is when his mother died. His father stayed strong in front of everyone but one day he heard his father crying alone in the room next to him. People forget that he is human just like the rest of us.
Hes FAUL.
@@angelwings7930 you're Fangel.
Get help asap, fre@k.
@@angelwings7930
You're FANGEL.
@@elizabethfonseca922 Are you normally this butt hurt when people comment ? You will find opposite opinions on RUclips, hope you realize that. Get a crash helmet ?
@@angelwings7930 I don't care.
But tell me all you know about this Faul story....I'm curious.
You don't "forget", you simply incorporate this pain into who you are. It is a part of you, sometimes hidden, sometimes not, but always there.
That is so true.
Boy are you RIGHT.
And it's hell being the one left behind.
So eloquently put 🙏🏻
There is no great mourning without great love…blessed are those that mourn
My son died suddenly 6 months ago. Paul singing, "Let it Be" is,for me, very special. I hold onto his lyrics, "there will be an answer". The pain of losing my son is impossible to describe and I would not want anyone else to ever have to suffer the loss of a child.
Bonjour
Je suis touché par votre commentaire, j'ai vécue et vie en ce moment des choses difficiles de la vie ,je pense que la mort n'existe pas chaque être disparu est dans notre cœur et pensse et tant que ns en parlons ils sont toujours presents
Je suis de tout ❤️ avec vous vos proches et votre fils
I lost my son suddenly at age 32 of a heart attack. this was in 2017 he was running a marathon in Florida. we still grieve every day but know that he’s in heaven.
I DO know what you are feeling, mother. May 2 in the anniversary of my son's tragic death. I will never get over it. 💙
Oh, how absolutely sad and tragic! My words won't make any difference to you, but I understand your pain. ❤
i sing "let it be" to my disabled grandson and he falls asleep...loves the song. I lost a sister to brain cancer at a very young age, it's tough. She was sick for years, we've had two sudden teen deaths in my family, ages 14 and 17 both very sudden and unexpected. Peace to you.
Time heals by making you forget..but I don’t want to forget but I want the pain to stop. That is the best definition of the paradox of grief that I've ever heard.
I met Paul and Linda McCartney at Billboard Magazine in 1972- 9000 Sunset LA. My Uncle Peter Heine was director of advertising for Billboard. Paul and Linda were there to sign the advertising agreement for Wings first album that had the 007 soundtrack for Live and Let Die on it. After introducing me to Paul and Linda Peter asked if the three of us could keep each other company while he went down the hall and made a correction to the contract. He said it was going to take him about 15 minutes. We said sure and Peter went down the hall. So I was left alone with Paul and Linda McCartney at the top floor of 9000 Sunset in the southern conference room. I was alone with Paul and Linda for about 15 minutes looking out the window at Los Angeles. Paul and Linda were an elegant couple and their manners were fantastic. I was 13 years old and they treated me like a grown up. It was just like talking to some friends of my Uncle's in the living room. Later that day on my way home with my Uncle Peter asked me how I liked Paul and Linda. I said "They seem like regular people to me." My Uncle replied "They are regular people with exceptional jobs." Thank you for your kindness Paul I haven't forgotten. Take care and be well.
You were talking to FAUL.
@ericheine2414
Thank you for sharing this lovely anecdote.🩵✨️
@@deborahcornell171 it’s a sad thing when decent people are fooled by the entertainment industry.
What a phenomenal experience!!
Thanks so much for sharing your story.
She was the love of his life❤️❤️❤️🥲
Yes, we’re aware
@@janetownley Ohhhh. And “we’re” kind of hissy aren’t we. 😮
And then he went to the studio, gathered some friends and recorded Run Devil Run, a solid album, full of energy and pure rock and roll, an almost forgotten release that brought Macca back to his roots. A truly honorable way to release the pain of missing his beloved Linda.
SI SEÑOR !!!
I love Run Devil Run! Thank you for appreciating that bit of context
Linda was truly special and everyone knows that. People don't really die, that's my belief. The soul keeps existing, only the material body disappears.
I hope the McCartneys think so too.
Stay at peace, beautiful family. ❤
He’s such a brilliant, special and hopeful person.
Remembering has been called the final stage of grief...💖
That is so helpful to hear
I lost my father to pancreatic cancer when I was a freshman in high school back in 1969. I still get misty-eyed when I think of that loss. Thank you, Paul, for sharing.
I absolutely love his openness and honesty.
When you lose someone you love theres no such thing as closure.
Some people are worth hurting for.
He has more character than he thinks.
I never stop learning from this man. love to you Paul. (and lovely Linda)
We lost out son age 24, to a drunk driver hitting him. We still have each other, and we know how hard losing one of us will be. God bless you, loved you since age 14. Thank you for all the joy you've given me in this life.
I lost my beautiful husband two months ago to the monster named cancer. I have never felt so much pain and loss. I miss him so much. I can't even leave our bedroom and I just cry. I am here all alone and still expect to see him lying beside me. I call his name, knowing he won't be coming. He suffered so much but was so sure he could beat it and stay here with me. The treatments were so hard on his mind and body that I am glad he is out of that pain now. I will love him forever. We were together for 47 years and I cherish the memory of every one!!
Never forget! Beautiful Paul!
I lost my wife to cancer in 2012. We were together for 30 years. She was 52, I was 54, we had all the usual plans for when we retired, as we'd paid off the mortgage, the 'kids' had left home, it was going to be our time. It is bloody hard. My son and daughter were fantastic. We became a sort of mutual support group, and still are. Time does heal, but it doesn't make it any easier. Good to hear Paul talk about it👍
Simply Beautiful Words. Thank you Paul, so honest, so correct
In time the pain softens, the heart doesn't ache with longing and you can breathe again but you do not ever forget. I found my strong grief for my mother to be surrealistic and horrifically paralysing and also mesmerisingly beautiful. I felt cocooned by invisible spirits close by to soften the blows of painful reality as the weeks, months, years wore on. Nothing made sense but it was all perfect because it was just for me to ponder my mother. No intruders. Totally self absorbing and true.
No, it’s impossible to forget. I feel the pain of suddenly losing my daughter every day.
That is part of life, Only way to be heal is Love. We all need love ❤️
It’s all you need apparently 🙃🥁🥁
I felt every word ... Luv will get you through ... Family loves you .... Fans love you ... Ringo loves you ... and I love you & Linda ... the Shutter Clicks and I'll find a place on the mantle Piece. ❤
Imagine just being on a hike in the woods and there’s Paul McCartney making a bonfire
I think he owns and lives on an island.
Unfortunately, loss of a loved one is a part of life. Knowing this doesn’t make it any easier to live with or to accept. Paul, like all of us, has suffered a lot of loss in his life. He lost his beloved Mom at an early age; he lost his very special Dad; I’m sure he’s lost other close family members; he lost his band mates through a type of divorce; and then he lost John and George, both to premature deaths.
All of these losses are painful. Each one of them hurts, but I think, the biggest hurt that never seems to heal, is the loss of “the love of your life”. The love of your life (your heart’s desire, the who “holds the other key to me” as Paul sang in “My Love”) is like the death of the deepest part of you. It never goes away. You carry it with you daily. You never stop missing her. But as sad as you are, you have to keep moving and breathing and functioning no matter how much you miss her. You have to do it for yourself and for those around you who depend upon you for strength and courage and leadership because they’re hurting too, and it breaks your heart to see their suffering. So you try to find purpose or positive, not self destructive “distractions” to help you make it through each day.
This interview with Paul is like a course on grief and on how to cope with it. I have been a huge Paul McCartney fan for years. I love his music and the genius of his creativity both musically and lyrically. I am also a huge fan of the man he is. He’s levelled headed and an extraordinary regular guy. He’s wise and mature, and I highly respect him. For years, Paul has been holding up a sign that reads, “follow me”. I don’t want to be Paul McCartney, but I do want to learn from the example he sets.
Thanks Paul!
I feel the same way about Paul. Thanks for expressing everything so eloquently.
So touching. Thank you.
I have always felt this man is a class act, level headed, empathetic, wildly talented, and very grounded. Lovely man with a heart full of love for his Lovely Linda.
Very very accurate words.
A no-win situation is so correct
I’m so sorry Paul
I just loved Linda.
...just an absolutely beautiful, brilliant, man..❤
RIP Linda❤ , Paul ❤
I am just "viewing, learning, hearing" this.
LOVE IS FOREVER & PAULKNOWS!!!
i send u a hug beautiful man☺
So wise ❤
Love Macca. From the Beatles to today his optimism is sublime
He is so sensitive and loveing God bless u paul❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
You never get over it when someone you love dies, grief lasts forever, and after some time you just get used to them being gone to a certain degree. But you carry on and live life. laugh and find joy and you talk about the person with the other people who love and miss them for the rest of your days.
I'm truly sorry if my contribution caused any upset ... for which ... I know you and Mary know what I'm talking about.
Paul lose her forever. Rest in peace dear Linda
lovely paul & Linda ❤
No you will never forget. But one day you find you didn't cry that day.
Saay what you want about Linda but he REALLy loved her very much. An enviable relationship
Your a very special man Paul. I'm in Heaven just to look at you and hear your music since I'm 5 years old. My parents introduced their children to the Beatles music at a very young age. Knowing the joy your music brings to others hopefully will help you cope in your loss. Just knowing others Love you and care. And pray to Our Lord Jesus Christ for comfort. He will help you. You're the Best!!!!! Ever!!!!! And the Band Wings...RAM especially is my favorite...after...Songs...I Saw Her Standing there....and Hey Jude...I use to get so made at 5 years old... mind you....because we couldnt hear your music when you'd perform on TV...at Shea Stadium..in NY City. I think it was because of all the teenage girls screaming for you Fab 4. God Bless.
Yesterday I heard a song from Wings. I said to myself "it's a shame Linda died. She was Paul's soulmate."
Good interview fair play to him
Truth
Pure 💕
Yes Luv, we all experience Loss
I don't think of time's healing as forgetfulness. Rather, I think that life's demands intervene and that space our loved one inhabited in our lives recedes naturally. It is difficult to allow this to happen and we cling to the memories, even to the grief if it will extend the slightest contact with the deceased beloved. Grief is hard work and often needs the help of others who can accompany the walking on we all must do. Gratitude helps and faith is a tremendous gift.
Grieving always brings a modicum of guilt (for me at least). Guilt about, did I do enough to make them happy and, wasn’t I unnecessarily mean or unkind that time. You should definitely be kind to your loved ones or pets. You’ll have trouble forgiving yourself if you weren’t when you lose them.
No. It never goes away.
He rebounded well.
Yup that's how life works.
The price you pay for love is grief.😢
Linda, la beauté l'intelligence, la femme, la maman, la complice, l'éducation, la classe quoi ce que je pense c'est que Paul est exactement le meme en homme ,la bonté l'amour de son prochai
A la famille McCartney je vous envoie tout mon amour pour celui que vous m'avez transmis
There are no words that can be said. It will be ok someday, so we’ll just have to wait until it is. There are different beliefs concerning these things, but we still have to wait.
This helped me. Thanks Paul ❤
So much insightful maturity from the uneducated kid from Liverpool.
@@cardona89 don't believe everything you read. How could someone who lived in a council house, equivalent to welfare in the USA, afford to attend a British elite school?
Wow.
There was this guy, Peter Cox, I think, who had recorded 19 tapes of Linda talking about her life. ☹️
🙏🙏🙏❤🕊🌍❤🙏🙏🙏
That was horrible hearing about that.
❤
Why are there zero pictures of Linda in this whole thing that is supposed to be about Linda?
Yet he wasted no time marrying another
This doesn’t sound like his voice.
I saw an interview with Linda in which she said, she used to borrow £5 from people who came to interview her, as Paul would not let her to have access to their money!!! She said that!! The reporter said how everything was broken in their house and he said he was so sorry for her.
I can't forget this very sad interview.😢.
That man who claimed that Linda said these things in an interview was an embittered cookbook writer who had a huge grudge to grind because he felt he had been bested in a business deal with McCartney related to Linda's cookbooks and frozen foods. Paul himself didn't carry money back in those days. He and Linda neither of them carried money. They were sort of living a hippie life at the time. There is a story Paul was buying his children ice cream once and he realized he had no cash. Someone else paid for it. His fashion designer daughter Stella said she had to earn her own money to buy new clothes, so she learned to make her own. This in turn made her a huge success. This was Paul and Linda both - it was how they wanted to live. People who value money and objects just didn't get it. They expected to see comfort and luxury and saw the usual chaos of a family of modest means with four children. Linda used to joke about how little she cared about objects, and she wasn't at all house proud. Now that Paul is with a different woman, he lives a far more affluent lifestyle. This reenforces the fact that it was Linda who preferred the stripped down lifestyle more than Paul.
@@yes2day100 nethertheless, she was always borrowing money! Usually a fiver and those day one could buy everything for dinner for that much.
So many people have said how stingy with money he was then. He cut his children pocket money.
There's too much evidence from so many people! They all weren't against him, they were relating what they had observed!
He insisted on Linda to be included as a member of his group, so he gets two cuts of the money!! They were rowing about that constantly.
But, who cares, Linda is dead.
Beatles aren't bigger than Jesus! What a cocky thing to say!
I always preferred " Rolling Stones "!
@@yes2day100 oh, you mean Peter Cox? No, it wasn't him who said that, it was Linda herself!!
@@E-Kat Linda was from a wealthy family. Her father was an extremely successful lawyer and literary agent. She was also a beneficiary of her mother's trust fund (her mother came from a wealthy family herself), and so Linda had plenty of money of her own. She didn't need to ask Paul for money. She and Paul chose to walk around without cash. I think they got a kick out of it. To say she was "always" borrowing money is ridiculous, and you have no evidence to support that claim. You obviously have some kind of hostility towards Paul, but that woman wanted for nothing. It is cruel to say that Paul was mean to this woman that he loved so much. As for the Stones, well, Mick Jagger is about as stingy as they come - he is infamous for it - so fans who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Billy Shepherd
Get the name right.
@@ML-ul2zq William Campbell ?
Imposter!!! Fake!!! You are not the real Paul!!! There is still a lot of us oldies who will call you out.
The dude got married and had a baby a year later he’s the trump of the Beatles
He got married 4 years later.
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