Sir Paul McCartney hails Carla Lane as 'advocate for animal rights'
Lane created several popular sitcoms including The Liver Birds. She also was a passionate advocate for animals who worked with Sir Paul's late wife Linda McCartney.
The former Beatles singer - and fellow Liverpudlian - wrote on his website: "Dear Carla has passed away and all of us in the family are very sad to lose a wonderful women. "We originally met through our involvement with the comedy show Bread and then later came to know her very well as a passionate animal lover. "Any animal in trouble was an animal that she felt she had to help and she did rescue and keep many varied animals for a long time. In her poetry she often expressed her feelings for animals and we in our family shared her passion. "The world has lost a great advocate for the rights of animals but more importantly someone who saw the value of her fellow creatures' lives and did everything in her power to show them the love and respect they deserved."
Lane wrote lyrics for Linda's song The White Coated Man, about vivisection, and they also worked together on her song Cow. advertisement She also created a part for both Sir Paul and Linda in the sitcom Bread, in a episode about an animal refuge. Lane once described her friendship with Linda as like that of "identical twins", telling the Observer in 2008: "We were friendship-struck from moment one. We used to sit on the lawn with our two puppies, kicking leaves, and looking at them. "We were like two scientists trying to find out why people don't like animals, and what we'd do to them, if we only could."
Source: Belfast Telegraph
