Linda Hits a Sour Note (1976)

 

Linda Hits a Sour Note

By Peter Senn

Daily Mirror

May 31, 1976

     Jealousy has reared its ugly head in that most harmonious of relationships, the marriage between ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his lovely wife Linda.

     Linda, who believes avidly that everyone needs love to keep going, was decidedly unromantic when Paul left her table at a party in New York to chat to Jackie Onassis, who was sitting at a table next to theirs. The party was at Madison Square Garden after the mammoth concert that marked McCartney's return to the New York stage.

     Jackie, 46-year-old widow of President Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, was there with merchant banker Skip Stein when Paul joined them. Linda, in a great show of feminine fury, rose from the table too, and stalked off to talk to friends elsewhere.

     Unfortunately, they asked her the wrong question. What was it like sitting that close to Jackie? Snapped back, Linda. "Jackie? All she's ever done was marry a brilliant man, and I mean Kennedy." Concurred, another woman, even more bitchily, "Come, come, you must admit, she throws spectacular funerals."

     Jackie was oblivious to all the chatter. She spoke briefly to Paul, and then concentrated all her attention back to Stein, knees closed and eyes locked. The new romance is going down big in the United States, and so are the ex-Beatles. Ringo Starr is there, and so is John Lennon. The only one missing is George Harrison.