Paul McCartney's Love Life: The Women Behind the Beatle's Most Iconic Songs
During the age of Beatlemania, the personal lives of the Fab Four were under constant scrutiny, and countless girls dreamed of being married to Paul McCartney. To the disappointment of many, McCartney was engaged to actress Jane Asher at the height of the Beatles’ fame in the ’60s, and he went on to be married three times, and famously had an enduring musical partnership with his first wife, photographer turned Wings cofounder Linda McCartney.
After his wife Linda’s untimely death, Paul married his second wife, Heather Mills, but the marriage didn’t last very long, and was plagued by tabloid scandal. Currently, McCartney is happily married to Nancy Shevell. Read on to take a deep dive into the musical icon’s marriages and learn which songs he wrote about the women in his life.
In 1959, Paul McCartney began dating Dot Rhone, a local Liverpool girl. They briefly became engaged when she unexpectedly got pregnant in 1960, but called it off after she had a miscarriage and were officially broken up by 1962. McCartney also admitted to having several affairs during the Beatles’ early days in Hamburg, Germany, while he was engaged to Rhone.
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