Linda McCartney Retrospective Opens In Glasgow
The McCartney Family with Sarah Brown, have curated a new retrospective gallery showing of Linda McCartney's photographic archival works. It opened today in Glasgow, Scotland at the Kelvingrove museum. Paul McCartney spoke with Radio Scotland to discuss the new event, in a new interview, taped last month, that aired last night. The full Rick Ross Meets...interview is available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006q83
The interview revealed many sentimental reflections concerning Linda McCartney as a Photographer, Animal Activist, Mother, and Wife. Paul and Linda were married for thirty years until her passing in 1998 from Breast Cancer. The McCartney's connection to their farm in Aryll, Scotland combined with their love of Glasgow was of significance to choose Kelvingrove to feature her photography.
You might recall that "Mull of Kintyre" was the hit Wings song based on their home in Aryll. The observational-styled phototography that Linda took around the farm of her family, is displayed alongside with her 1960s photo journalism of Rock Musicians. The scope of her work is also featured in Polaroids and contact sheets. Even though some of these photos have previously been printed in books, and magazines(Linda's photo of Eric Clapton appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone, was the first time the magazine used a female photographer), it is refreshing to re-examine her collection that will be available at the Kelvingrove until January 2020.
Glasgow is a wonderful city, and the Kelvingrove Museum is one of its best tourist attractions. Not to be missed and further information of the Linda Retrospective can be found at https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/
In other Linda McCartney news, her 1998 compilation album, Wide Prairie will be released in August on Vinyl and Streaming Download. A Limited Edition, Coloured Vinyl Edition can be purchased now at the Kelvingrove Museum. Unfortunately, the album will not be coming out as a physical copy on CD. (It could be rare to own the original run of the album from 21 years ago.)
This no-CD trend might continue after the July 12th CD Re-Releases of four of Paul's back catalogue albums on MPL/Capitol/UMe. Time will tell, but vinyl maybe ditched in the future as streaming services offer albums conveniently at lower prices and have been favoured over physical copy releases for sometime now.
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