Stella McCartney has spoken about the pain her mother Linda endured due to bullying from fans of Paul McCartney during The Beatles' heyday. The fashion designer, 54, discussed the criticism in the documentary Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, which premieres on Prime Video on 27 February.
Linda McCartney, who died of cancer in 1998 aged 56, faced ridicule after joining her husband's band Wings, despite having no formal musical background. Stella said: “She wasn't a cookie-cutter example of someone you put in a band. What they, and she especially, had to go through, like when they isolated her voice and ridiculed her? I mean, it breaks my heart.”
Paul McCartney, 83, taught Linda to play keyboard after The Beatles split and defended her inclusion in Wings, saying she gave the songs a “special sound”. The couple performed together until 1993, winning several Grammy Awards and earning an Oscar nomination for the James Bond theme “Live and Let Die”.
Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died three years later. Paul has since remarried twice: to Heather Mills from 2002 to 2008, and to Nancy Shevell in 2011.
