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Jane Asher announces her split from Paul McCartney
Saturday 20 July 1968 People 120 Comments
Last updated: 8 June 2020
In an appearance on the BBC Television show Dee Time, Jane Asher announced to the host, Simon Dee, that her engagement to Paul McCartney was over.
I haven't broken it off, but it is broken off, finished.
I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other and love each other, but it hasn't worked out. Perhaps we'll be childhood sweethearts and meet again and get married when we're about 70.
Jane Asher
Dee Time
Tellingly, Asher had failed to attend the world première of Yellow Submarine three days earlier; all the other Beatles' partners were there.
I always feel very wary including Jane in The Beatles' history. She's never gone into print about our relationship, whilst everyone on earth has sold their story. So I'd feel weird being the one to kiss and tell.
We had a good relationship. Even with touring there were enough occasions to keep a reasonable relationship going. To tell the truth, the women at that time got sidelined. Now it would be seen as very chauvinist of us. Then it was like: 'We are four miners who go down the pit. You don't need women down the pit, do you? We won't have women down the pit.' A lot of what we, The Beatles, did was very much in an enclosed scene. Other people found it difficult – even John's wife, Cynthia, found it very difficult – to penetrate the screen that we had around us. As a kind of safety barrier we had a lot of 'in' jokes, little signs, references to music; we had a common bond in that and it was very difficult for any 'outsider' to penetrate. That possibly wasn't good for relationships back then.
McCartney and Asher had been together for five years, since meeting at the Royal Albert Hall in 1963. However, McCartney had a string of other girls, mainly while The Beatles were touring – and in 1968 began an affair with an American woman, Francie Schwartz.
Asher arrived unexpectedly at McCartney's home in Cavendish Avenue, London, where she reportedly found him in bed with Schwartz. She walked out and sent her mother to collect her belongings, signalling an end to the relationship.
I think inevitably when I moved to Cavendish Avenue, I realised that she and I weren't really going to be the thing we'd always thought we might be. Once or twice we talked about getting married, and plans were afoot but I don't know, something really made me nervous about the whole thing. It just never settled with me, and as that's very important for me, things must feel comfortable for me, I think it's a pretty good gauge if you're lucky enough. You're not always lucky enough, but if they can feel comfortable then there's something very special about that feeling. I hadn't quite managed to be able to get it with Jane.
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1964: US album release: Something New
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1962: Live: Bell Hall, Warrington
1962: Live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (lunchtime)
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Angie Friday 4 November 2011
That is so sad. I wonder if they ever had closer, or if they always felt like they had not, even when Paul met and married Linda, and Jane married some one too. Did they ever see each other from time to time ?
Simo Wednesday 28 March 2012
Wonder of that too. I know Jane doesn't want to ever talk 'bout her relationship with Paul and it's very sad and i can understand her very well.She certainly doesn't want to remember how she felt left apart from Paul (what a genious of you, paul T_T really a genious!). Though, i'd be very very happy to know if they ever talked and met each other after all…
Alex Friday 21 February 2014
They did, and good for Paul. It WAS genius for him to enjoy himself, he's a Beatle. Good for him to not get stuck with Jane. Linda was way cooler and more mature in every way. I read that Paul "lost himself to drink and drugs" after this break up, which is utter nonsense. He had passed his most severe drug use already. He continued to fling around with tons of worshipping ladies and then called up Linda and had the greatest relationship of his life.
Fool on the Hill Sunday 23 February 2014
From what I've read about the "breakup" of Paul and Jane, when Jane found Francie Schwartz and Paul in their (Paul and Jane's) bed, it was the last straw. Yes, he had been unfaithful previously. Francie Schwartz was more than a one nighter, she even is noted as a background singer (I think Yellow Submarine, All Together Now, etc). She was present with Yoko during the "Mad Day Out" photo shoot. Francie says Jane knocked on the bedroom door before she entered to find them in bed together. This statement tells me Jane was well aware of his fooling around.
JC Sunday 16 March 2014
Yes. What many fans tend not to know is that Jane and Paul were mainly a media couple… I hung around with the Beatles quite a bit, and I didn't see Jane at all. They were often in different cities, and didn't even see each other until they were going out together. Jane also saw other people; it really wasn't like they were dating those times apart. They were very love stuck in the beginning, faded away, then became close again a few months before the India trip. It wasn't meant to be… they didn't have the complete love bond Paul & Linda always did.
fave88 Thursday 27 March 2014
Paul sure put on a good show of being a "nice " guy!!! Sure had a lot of his fans fooled, including me.
R123 Thursday 11 September 2014
Hey, i dont think he wasnt a nice guy. Sure, when he was in his 20s and a world famous rock star, he slept around. But he and Jane were obviously less than steady (they were more of a media couple than anything), and she had other guys as well, even dumping Paul completely for a few months for a boy she met in Bristol while she and Paul were still "officially" together. But, when Paul found the right woman, he settled down and never once cheated on her. He wasn't abusive and stood by her until the very end, when Linda sadly died of cancer. I honestly think that makes up for his shenanigans as a youngster -in the sixties, mind you-. And it is much more than you can say of other rockers of the era.
Paul Gray Sunday 9 June 2019
Janes brother Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon along with Paul were responsible for the introdu tion of John and Yoko. Paul was living at the Asher house and Peter owned the Indica gallery/book store where Yoko did he infamous exhibit. Jane and Paul would have made a brilliant couple and had a very real relationship.
Koot Friday 26 July 2019
Paul loved Linda with all his love and heart Linda loved him and gave him such beautiful children
Wish Paul could still have his Linda. ????
David Harvey Wednesday 22 September 2021
Do you actually have any evidence to confirm that Paul and Jane were a "media couple"? I know that they started dating in 1963, but I think that perhaps they should've broken up permanently around 1965.
Paul did write two songs on "Rubber Soul" about their problems – "You Won't See Me" was inspired by Jane acting in the Old Vic in Bristol and leaving him behind in London plus rejecting his phone calls and "I'm Looking Through You" was more bitter and biting in tone after he'd had some row with Jane and he told her to leave.
I sometimes don't understand why Paul stayed with Jane for as long as he did if he'd known that he was never going to get his way with her: after all, they were opposites in background, Jane wanted to continue her acting career and refused to comply with Paul's wish that she retire, she didn't really care for rock music to begin with, her friends were from the acting circles and she never took drugs.
Paul could've very easily left Jane for good around the period of "Rubber Soul" and spent the next two years as a playboy dating various women – until he met and settled with Linda, that is. You can tell that he really did love Linda and she was the true love of his life plus he wrote songs for her and about her.
sertaneja Friday 11 August 2017
Frances denies it, and although she seems to be a lier ( read her book on Paul) I tend to think this time she told the truth. I don't believe Paul would not notice Jane had arrived. No, Jane's reason was something else. Buess that house was a mess. Lots of people around and not only Frances. There was also a plastic artist living with Paul. Even a Prince lived there but left just one day before Jane's arrival. I can see the air smelling drugs all around. Jane was used to Paul with other girls. It had to be something more serious.
Jake Gerber Thursday 11 January 2018
Prince living there ? No offense but your take on this entire situation is skewed .
Steve Monday 22 July 2019
A prince.
James Sunday 28 November 2021
'a Prince' … not, Prince the music genius.
Lisa Saturday 14 March 2020
Have you read Alastair Taylor's book? It's a great source on Jane and Paul, as he was Brian Epstein's assistant. You can find a interview he did on the topic on line. He was the one who witnessed Paul's emotional breakdown when Jane rejected him. Alastair said that Paul "changed" and that he became "harder" and "more cynical." Well, Paul's behavior is infamous, especially during the Let It Be album. Derek Taylor said "I never hated anyone as much as I hated Paul during the summer of 1968." They broke up July 1968. It really messed him up. It's a fact and one in which appears he never recovered from according to his songs and Linda's mention of Jane to Peter Cox in the late 80s. I suppose she had to blame someone for her misery. Jane was faithful to Paul. He didn't tell the truth about her, knowing she would not respond. Unfortunately, Jane walked in and saw him with FS and ended it "there and then." She did not know he was unfaithful to her until that moment. Jane has never spoken to Paul since or commented on him or the Beatles, nor has she spoken to any biographer including Hunter Davis. The only problem they had in their relationship was Paul's constant nagging for her to stop working in which she refused. She would leave to work and he would find a groupie. When Jane returned no other woman existed. We cannot be sure about "drugs" etc because Jane has never commented. They were very happy until that happened. Paul tried to make their relationship appear to be less than what it was (the rejection). But, what's really sad is that Jane loved Paul McCartney, not his fame or fortune and he knows it. Even Linda, a groupie herself with a horrible reputation, sought after him because he was one of the Beatles, rich and famous. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Cln Thursday 14 May 2020
Sandra Tuesday 11 May 2021
That's an interesting timeline because he hooked up with Linda in May 1968.
Helen Ruth Lamoureux Friday 29 October 2021
HOW do we learn more about Linda? -her groupie days, etc. I've heard about that more than three times!
David Harvey Monday 17 January 2022
Linda worked as a professional photographer for a living, not a groupie of disrepute the way Nancy Spungen was. She didn't marry Paul for his money or for his fame as a Beatle – the couple clearly loved each other very much and Paul wrote songs for her.
paula Saturday 14 June 2014
Linda and Paul were both by their own admission – potheads. I assume that would make someone cool and mature? How I don't know, but that seems to be their one major agreement in life. Linda essentially laid her life down for Paul, so in a world where women should have some rights I have no idea how that is cool or mature either. Whatever he did or didn't do, he wrote the most catastrophically significant love song of the rock era for Jane Asher.
tessa Sunday 24 August 2014
And what song is that, Paula? I can't think of any song Paul wrote for Jane that is even close to "Maybe I'm Amazed", which was written for Linda.
Paula Tuesday 16 September 2014
For No One
taloola Sunday 21 September 2014
Really? Thats a song about a guy feeling bad when his girlfriend is in the process of leaving him. Their relationship is over, and he's reflecting on what could've been. It's more of a melancholy song. I would never consider that a love song.
Sheila M Monday 11 January 2016
'Something in the way she moves"
They recorded For No One in 1966. If it's about Jane, then that relationship was dead 2 years before they broke up.
Topazthecat (@topazthecat1000) Friday 13 May 2016
Paul wrote quite a few beautiful love songs that are known to be for and about Jane Asher,Things We Said Today,And I Love Her,Here There And Everywhere,and his great late 1964 blues rocker,She's A Woman.A man really loves a woman when he writes beautiful love songs for her like these!
He wrote great songs about the arguments he had with her,( We Can work It Out,I'm Looking Through You,and For No One) which were all of his fault because he was a sexist and kept unfairly pressuring Jane to give up her acting career and devote herself to him.She said at the time in Hunter Davies great only authorized Beatles biography,The Beatles that she enjoyed acting and she had been doing it since she was a little girl and she refused to give it up.
Saltie Friday 23 March 2018
I agree. One would have to feel intensely about another person to write such songs in the first place.
He never, ever said those songs were about Jane. Show where he said it.
Topazthecat Wednesday 12 May 2021
I forgot that Paul and Jane were interviewed in 1967 in Hunter Davies great only authorized biography,The Beatles when they were engaged to be married and Paul said he knew now that he was being selfish and silly pressuring Jane to give up her life long acting career that she very much loved, and Paul said she met a boy friend once and that it was shattering to be without her, and this is when he wrote You Won't See Me and I'm Looking Through You both on the great Rubber Soul album.
I also forgot to add that Paul also wrote the early songs Every Little Thing and What You're Doing on the very good underrated late 1964 Beatles For Sale album too. Also one of Brian Epstein's assistants and friends Alistair Taylor said that when Jane left him (rightly so after finding him in their bed with another woman) Paul called Alistair on the phone like 1am upset and then he came over his house 2 am and cried and drank liquor and told him how much he loved and needed Jane and how close they were and how he opened up everything inside himself to her including his pain about his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary dying at only age 47 from breast cancer when Paul was only 14 and his brother Michael was only 12.
Alistair also said that Paul tried very hard for a long time to get Jane to forgive him and come back to him, and this was after he met Linda Eastman twice who became Linda McCartney, but all of Paul's letters were returned unopened and all his phone calls were ignored.Linda was also 4 months pregnant when he married her, although he did ask her to marry him when she was only about a month pregnant so she might not have yet known that she was then.But Linda at first told Paul when he first asked her to marry him, that she really didn't want to get married again.
Also there used to be a great online 1986 Entertainment This Week hour long interview with Paul by a great interviewer Barbara Hower who asked him such great and some rare questions that other interviewers haven't.And she said to him probably your great love before you married Linda was Jane Asher, and she said she was also a strong yet kind woman, she was asking what Paul found so appealing about strong, kind intelligent women.And Paul's reaction was very telling when Barbara said this about Jane being his first great love, he turned his head and the look on his face for just about 2 minutes or so, you could tell it really still struck an emotional chord.
Also Ringo and Barbara Bach are still very much in love with each other after being married since April 1981 with no kids of their own together, Ringo had 3 kids with his first wife Maureen and Phil Donahue had 5 kids with his first wife and they divorced after 17 years of marriage, but he and Marlo Thomas have been happily married since May 1980 and they never had kids together either, Marlo had never been married until her early 40's. Paul and Nancy are in love and happily married for almost 10 years and they are never going to have children together either.
Chris Newman Friday 23 December 2016
We can work it out
We don't know if Paul really wrote those love songs for his girls. Composers can write songs for other people. Of course they may lie saying that song is for their women for obvious reasons. Fans are too naive to think songwrites think only of the oficial girls all the time. Some songs are not for anybody real, by the way. Others are for more than one person. But it is true Paul wrote his most people love songs before knowing Linda. Nothing as perfect as "Here There and Everwhere". Was it for Jane? Maybe. It is far better than maybe I'm Amazed. I also like "And I Love Her" very much. All songs he wrote while with The Beatles were better. But I do love Maybe Im Amazed. I only have some doubts it was indeed based on Linda. He said " the way you help me sing my songs…" Impossible. Linda could not sing. He had to be thinking in another person. Guess his muse was somebody else. But when it was ready he dedicated to his wife.
Cynthia Noldeer Sunday 26 November 2017
"The Lovely Linda" is obviously about Linda McCartney
Topazthecat Friday 11 January 2019
It's very well known that Paul *did* write the love songs and argument songs about Jane that I mentioned.It's even explained in his great 1997 authorized biography,Many Years From Now by Barry Miles.
George McGorgie Monday 11 March 2019
Oh, I thought she sung backing vocals
Diana Steele Cole Monday 15 April 2019
Probably John
Cindy Kauffman Thursday 12 December 2019
Wasn't "Here, There and Everywhere" written by George Harrison about Patty Boyd?
Paul wrote Here, There, and Everywhere when he went to John's house one morning and he was waiting for John to wake up. He has never, ever said that song was about Jane. There is a lot of evidence that suggests John and Paul were much closer than just friends. Flip the gender in a song, easiest thing in the world. John also wrote love songs that were probably about Paul, just flip the gender. When you look at the songs from that point of view, it answers many more questions than it raises.
No! Paul DID write those songs for Jane. And, I've read where it was important to Paul for 'his woman' to be the admiring, devoted wife…MAYBE bc HE wanted to be that to WHOMEVER he ended up with. Linda DID tell him she would/DID want to give him kids.
Maybe I'm Amazed. Probably one of the most unhappiest songs ever written. All of Paul's insecurities come screaming to the surface, literally so in some verses. A good song, not entirely without a tinge of self-pity, but for me, not a love song in the truest sense of the word.
Lisa Sunday 23 August 2020
Paul wrote so many love songs about Jane, because he was deeply in love with her. I cannot understand anyone thinking that Paul would just stop loving Jane because he impregnated Linda and married her. And, we are now finding out what a miserable life Linda had. When Jane rejected his calls and messages, Paul became "harder" and "more cynical." What is so hard to figure out with that statement from Taylor, who saw it? Paul brought that same attitude in the studio, to the other Beatles, in his marriages, in his friendships, and even in his own family. Sounds like Sir Paul has created some very tall walls around himself. In 1972 he wrote a song called "The Mess." The lyrics of interest: "The Mess You Sailed Away One Night In June." So, the timetable of Jane catching him was in June not July as suspected. And, how do we know it is Jane and not Linda he is singing about? "Oh – Sweet Darling What A Mess I'm In
What A Mess I'm In, Since You Left Me." So, post Beatles songs he wrote about Jane are: I'll give you a ring, Souvenir, Good Night Tonight, Love in a song, The Other Me, 4th of July, Anyway, Arrow Through me" Same love, Call Me Back Again, Daytime Nighttime Suffering, Letting God, One Last Kiss, and many more. Linda is given credit as a writer on some of these songs, but after research I found that Paul did that so he did not have to pay his publisher. They went to court over it. I think when Heather Mills said his fans would not be able to handle the truth, I think it was the way he treated Linda and still pinned for Jane. After their divorce was final, Paul did a interview that day of how much he missed Linda, blah blah blah. The very next day, Heather responded: https://web.archive.org/web/20080410062155/http://www.gossiprocks.com:80/forum/latest-gossip/68501-heather-mills-becomes-redhead.html
She knows the truth! lol She hasn't said much since, so I am assuming she and Cox had to sign NRAs, but it was a direct response to Paul in which he received loud and clear!
Maybe I'm Amazed he wrote for Linda for her devotedly and dedicatedly pulling him out of his drunken funk after the Beatles broke up. She urged him to KEEP WRITING then he did eventually structure WINGS.
Nils Friday 27 July 2018
Lisa001 Sunday 13 December 2020
"And I love Her" "Yesterday" "Here, There and Everywhere" "Woman" just to name a few. NOTHING Paul wrote post Beatles are as beautifully written or sung from the heart except perhaps "I'm Carrying" in 1979, in which Paul wrote for Jane as well.
Topzthecat Wednesday 12 May 2021
No Lisa, I really doubt that Paul was still writing any songs about Jane when he was married to Linda and I'm pretty sure he wrote I'm Carrying about Linda being pregnant with their third child James during the recording of this song on the London Town album.
Cristina Monday 9 March 2015
Lol, so Linda wasn't ,cool or mature because she liked to smoke pot?. Please.
I guess you don't think nor smoke nor anything.
Jane was pretty cool too and very mature,she was a mature sophisticated actress since she had been acting in films, TV and theatre since she was a little girl and was in her first film at age 5. In the very good only authorized Paul McCartney biography Many Years From Now by Barry Miles Paul said that Jane was a very intelligent interesting person and he really liked her a lot.
Ludlow Saturday 12 March 2016
Apparently "We Can Work It Out" was supposedly written about a bad time Paul and Jane were going through. And there's a line in "For No One" that sounds like Jane to me. "And in her eyes you see nothing. no sign of love behind the tears cried for no one. A love that should have lasted years."
Jane has always struck me as being somewhat cold and distant. And in most photos, her eyes do seem blank to me.
NancyDrew Saturday 14 May 2016
I don't see how wanting to devote your life to your husband and family is a bad thing. It was her life choice. Paul wanted a wife in the house and raising kids, someone who will follow his lead. Clearly Jane wasn't about that wanted to dedicate herself to her personal grow and career (Which is fine to – personally im more like her-). And thats why Linda was the perfect match for PAul. Seeing how Paul ended up living his life (travelling with his family and touring all over the world) its clear he and JAne would never worked out in the long run. As time has passed by you can see how it all worked out for the for both of them.
Clarissa Wednesday 14 June 2017
Linda was a groupie. She used her camera to gain access to rock stars and slept with many of them. While in bed with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane she told him was going to marry Paul and she hadn't even met him yet. She was cunning and and very sexual and that's basically how she got Paul. Also rich. Paul was a social climber and was attracted to wealthy women with society connections which would include Jane Asher.
Sarah Monday 4 December 2017
Apparently, you are correct about Paul. No one liked Linda.
Think you're right unfortunately. Don't like to think of our Paulie that way…
Kirk Saturday 23 January 2016
Linda wasn't cool at all, at least in an artistic sense. Personally, I liked seeing Paul and Jane Asher together. But who cares? It's certainly not up to me who Paul wanted to be with. I still cringe when I see and hear Linda in Wings. But I blame Paul for basically becoming unprofessional and bringing an untalented non musical entity into his band.
how was she more mature and cool than Jane in every way? please explain this . (and im not saying jane was better/cooler than her)
I wonder if you have ever met them. If so, for how long? Who close were you with Paul, Jane and Linda? But if not, it is quite strange you say Linda was cooler. Maybe she was, but maybe she was not. Most of us never talked to them, visited them to know about their private life. I only can say what I feel, but I never affirm anything. Linda doesn't seem cool at all! Quite the opposite. It was a surprise for me to see him engaging a woman like her. There was something around her so unpleasent. But I may be wrong, of course.
Linda was a groupie who sought after Paul's fame and money, while Jane did not. Paul was the only man Jane had slept with, while Linda slept with the entire rock community with Warren Beatty at least to throw in there. Linda was a rebound and a closely guarded PR marriage. When Paul and Linda attended Ringo's marriage and Paul made a remark about Cilia Black's husband, they all talked about how insincere he was. John jumped up after her in one of their meetings, while the other Beatles did not like her either. They adored Jane. Alastair Taylor said she kept smiling and had a glint in her eye that he did not like. He couldn't stand her. I think Paul loved her but he was not in love with her. Obviously, she was a rebound. I read where someone was related to a session player for Paul. She said that Paul beat the shit out of Linda and when she went to leave, he went after her barefoot in the snow to bring her back. In a 1983 Sun interview, Denny Laine said Paul made a "ungentlemanly comment about Linda's body odor." Who does that towards their wife to another man? Then, there's the Let It Be sessions which all of them hated Paul. Derek T hated Paul. Peter Cox's Lindatapes, in which is the truth, who did not like Paul. I think there's some truth in Heather Mills' accusations because of the pattern. Paul paid off Cox and got the tapes, but not before Cox did an interview. Linda actually mentioned Jane to Cox in a negative way. Ruth McCartney shared stories in which Paul abused her and his father in which he did not attend his funeral. Phil Collins hates Paul. I could go on and on. While I love the Beatles music, there is clearly something wrong with Paul.
Lisa, Paul would *never* hit a woman let a lone "beat the sh*t out of her, and that person is clearly a big liar.
Now it's sadly true that John Lennon when he was * a very young 19,20 year old psychologically messed up drunk guy", hit girlfriends *not wives though, and got into fist fights with men, before he thankfully became a pro-feminist and feminist nurturing house husband and father to Yoko and their little son Sean. Cynthia Lennon always said that John *never* hit her after they were married and Cynthia always said that she would be in love with her first love John Lennon and she was married 3 times after John .
sertaneja Sunday 21 January 2018
I disagree totally about it. Maybe you are right, but maybe not. Linda really doesn't look cooler. And she was older, but that doesn't mean she was more mature. I read from people close to them that Paul really almost lost his mind when Jane left him. But it didn't last for long. He got totally lost when the Beatles split some years later when he was already married. So, this information you got that he had already passed his most servere drug use already is wrong. His worst time was in 70/71. There are lots of articles about it and Paul admitted himself. Linda was also keen on marijuana, so it didn't help. I don't think a woman always smoking marijuana is really mature. She was arrested a couple of times for this reason. Jane could not stand drugs. There is also no reliable information he was flinging around with tons of ladies after Jane left him. There was only one he took to Saldinia around agoust 68. But she was already his girlfriend since 66. He was never true to Jane. And of course there was Linda who had be stalking him since 1967.
Descent into pure silliness, stupid faces and behaviour for the camera, god awful mullet hairstyles and clothes, wooden performances, excessive use of cannnabis rendering them incoherent. Your perception of cool appears to be very different from mine. I'm all for adults having fun but you don't have to act like 13 year olds.
ognirrrats69 Friday 8 November 2019
I know this is a five year old comment but cooler and more mature? Pffffffffffft
No. Just no. Sorry
i read somewhere in an interview to her that she didn't talked about it first, because it was a part of her private life and she respected that very much. Second, she didn't wanted that, in the future, her husband and children felt that they weren't the absolute loves of her life and rather a second choice (being paul the one that got away..)
Ian Cohan Saturday 5 December 2015
Did she return the engagement ring, or had she never received one?
Paul bought Jane a diamond and emerald engagement ring when they got engaged on Christmas day 1967.
Maribeth Sunday 19 February 2017
Guess if Jane still considers marrying Paul "@ about age 70", she better get things in gear as she has less than 2 months to go! (Paul is already Past his Best B4 Date!)
Faye Dolan Monday 7 October 2019
Jane was the most envied girl in the world, as I recall. I truly believe they would have married if Paul had not been caught diddling with Francie Swartz. Jane was very independent and had her own acting career and she had too much honest and integrity to put up with Paul's cheating. I always believed they were the IT couple and would have married happily, but Paul's ego was hurt when Jane dumped him in public (I mean, WHO would dump McCartney, the world's most eligible bachelor? Jane, I guess)…Then he took up with Linda Eastman who laid her tender trap for Paul having ensconced herself in a hotel with him for days and got pregnant. Paul married her and I think he wanted to show Jane AND John (who by now had Yoko, the woman who caused all the bad feelings amongst the Beatles) so it was kind of a middle finger to John and Jane…"Look, see? I can be happily married and I don't need you!). I never thought Linda had Jane's class or breeding or beauty, but he did stay with her until the end. I don't think she was a bad sort, but Jane and Paul should have stayed together and continued the magic.
Marcio Ivam Tuesday 26 May 2020
Poor Jane. So lovely.
Cash Shoes Saturday 16 February 2013
why Paul? Why did you cheat on Jane? She was so pretty and sweet. So what if it didn't feel right? You didn't have to cheat on her 🙁
He didn't cheat because he didn't it didn't feel right, he cheated all the time on Jane. He had sex with tons of girls then. Besides, Paul even hints here that he never could be totally comfortable with her and has also said elsewhere that Linda was the "first woman" he had fallen for, and that the others had been "girls" and "shrinking violets" so I think it was for the best.
Stacy Q. Sunday 16 March 2014
yes! I completely agree; it always seemed to me that they were a TV couple; there are no pictures or anything of them being loving or anything; just standing there, semi-awkwardly, and smiling. Paul certainly wasn't in love -I doubt Jane was-, but if she was, and believed she and Paul were meant for each other, she was being a foolish girl.
sertaneja Friday 20 October 2017
Like I said before we never met them personally to know the story. And even if we had met them it is not enough to know about feeling. My parentes and sister and brothers never knew about my feelings. If Paul said Linda was the first woman hd had fallen for, ( I never heard it anywhere) maybe he was telling a lie to please her. If so, how did he visit his other girlfriend only one day before getting married? And he cried all the time. It seems to me he liked that girl best or he would not cry. It seems that was the reason he and Linda had a fight and almost didn't get married. I also can't be sure he never cheat on Linda. I remember reading somewhere that, after Linda's death, a reporter asked him about it and he said that was not exactly the truth. And the truth is: we don't know the truth. I also read that when Jane left him he did his best to have her back. In vain. And the reason she left was not because there was another woman there. She didn't like the mess in the house. Too much drugs. She could not stand that. She knew about other affairs since day one and never cared. But it is a waste of time talking about his private life as we have not means to know.
I have often WONDERED if Paul was actually THAT FAITHFUL to Linda. That he married, in MY MIND, SO SOON after Linda passed to Heather and now, his 3rd wife-I forget her name but was a friend of Linda's (!!!) strikes a 'flat note' to me for someone who was 'SO IN LOVE' FOR 30 yrs to the love of his life! Things don't always happen ONLY AT NIGHT! idk. He seems there was always rascal in him! AND PROB WHY HE KEPT A TIGHT LEASH ON LINDA BC HE WA GUILTY…that or didn't want another Jane experience replicated. I'm not saying he did not love Linda nor vice versa; but…30 yrs w/TEMPTATION THROWN IN YOUR FACE?!!
I think that was to get back at Jane….saying he never really loved her because Jane dumped him in public and his massive ego couldn't take it.
A much later response to your post…but, you actually believe that? Paul cheated on Jane when she left to work not when she was with him. One time she was traveling in the US with the Bristol old Vic for four months. Unfortunately, she believed in him while he was unworthy of her trust. When she returned he dropped everyone and took her away to spend time alone with her -they were infamous for traveling the world together. He was with Linda in '67 and returned to Jane. Linda was no match for Jane. And, when someone feels the need to make a public statement like Linda was the "first woman" he had fallen for and the others were "girls" what does that say about them? That comment was directed to Jane in an attempt to humiliate and hurt her. He was in a serious five year relationship with Jane in which he lived with her the entire time. Everyone who knew them said that Paul was "deeply and passionately in love with Jane." So, all of the sudden she's no longer a "woman" (he wrote a song about her called "Woman" and "She's a Woman") because she dumped him for cheating. If she is aware of his shenanigans, in which I doubt she cares, she must think he is unhinged. Today, Jane is off limits when it comes to Paul but he made it clear to biographers off the record that he loved her, her family, and their home.
What a total insult to Jane Asher,she was not a girl,she was a mature sophisticated actress since childhood,and Paul even wrote he great late 1964 blues rock song,She's A Woman for 18 year old Jane and she was a 21 year old young woman when he asker her to marry him and 22 when she left him.
chuze Monday 17 July 2017
It's all in the lyrics to Here, There and Everywhere: To lead a better life, he needed his love to be here… always with him–like Linda was.
This song was written before meeting Linda. And if he was not the kind of man always next to Jane, he could not ask the same from her. She had her job, her own profession as acctress. Paul never said anywhere he didn't like her profession. I don't think he was machist. This is something people created. See he and Nancy now. Sometimes she travels with him. Sometimes she doesn't travel. She is a business woman and he appreciates that. We can see him alone all the time in pictures, or with other people. Besides, he didn't leave Jane. Jane left him. So it was not because she used to spend times travelling as an actress.
Some people have said and I really think there is a lot of truth to it,that the main reason Paul put Linda in Wings and wanted to be with her all of the time was because if she and the kids had been back at home in England when Paul was touring with Wings he was afraid and didn't trust himself that he wouldn't give in to having sex with all of the young women groupies like during the early Beatles touring years of 1963-1966,but if Linda and their kids were right there with him he couldn't cheat on her.
In the great 1986 Entertainment Tonight interview with Paul by Barbara Hower she asks Paul after having so many groupies how has he managed to stay faithful to only one woman all these years. And Paul said half jokingly, that it hasn't been easy and that it's more than his life's work and he said plus it's not worth it because you vow to marriage.
JP Thursday 29 August 2013
Wow! Everybody was really screwing everybody! Surprised Paul hasn't had more love-childs creeping out the woodwork!
It's really a miracle that John, George and Ringo who cheated on their first wives, and The Rolling Stones and every other rock band since hasn't made babies all over the world. Here is a very good February 1999 documentary about how wild The Beatles were including cheating on their wives and Paul on his then girlfriend and then fiancee Jane Asher,
E! True Hollywood Story The Beatles Wives,
Ðee H?maniÐee Sunday 1 June 2014
Bullshit. PID, Jane has a life-long gag-order.
DAn Sunday 22 June 2014
The REAL Paul McCartney died in 1966 – I think that had some bearing on his and Jane's relationship ??
Arielle Saturday 13 December 2014
I don't think so. Cause Jane will surely notice that Paul changed if he really was replaced. But then, they decided to get married at 1967; meaning, it's still the real Paul Mccartney and Paul Mccartney
Of course he was not replaced. This is the most idiot hoax ever. No fan should never mention that because it is also offensive.
They somehow still lasted TWO years after that lol
tommy d Sunday 24 August 2014
I would like to see some legitimate sources talk about the Jane walking in on Paul and Francie thing. Because Jane has never confirmed that… Paul has never confirmed that… and Francie says its untrue. I believe that story is something i like to call "bullshit".
I so agree. Just what is the source for that claim?. This is a great website, but why is it being presented as a fact while provifing no sources?.
Cristi Bracken-Asher Tuesday 18 August 2015
It didn't happen because Francie never got above the ground floor. The girl's who hung around outside his gate told me that
Exactly. As nobody knows the true story, they like to invent their own. And as people have not good imagination they created this silly and banal story. We only know for sure she was in the house. And also a male plastic artist, by the way. His butler gave some information but didn't say about it either. Only he heard Jane saying " enough". He also said the house was dirty and every time she travelled it was transformed in something else. Lots of drugs and full of people. Mick Jagger and Brian Jones were there all the time and they, rather than Paul, would arrange some orgies almost every night. Linda used to be present, He accepted a prince called prince Stash as his guest for days and days. He had left only one day before Jane arrived. He also had John and yoko as residents with him for a time. And Jane was never informed of anything. We only know she could not accept that kind of life anymore. We don't know the details.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE WOMEN FOR MY FRIEND PAUL.. AND IT WASN'T LINDA
23/9/01 Mail on Sunday by ALISTAIR TAYLOR
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.artists.paul-mccartney/-DKsxdzYtx8
The story of Jane walking in on Paul and Francie came from Alastair who was Epstein's assistant and knew Paul from the very beginning of the Beatles. He thought a lot of Paul and had no reason to lie, but I also think he brought the facts out to protect Jane, who he also cared about. All these comments coming out about her and she remained silent. Taylor set the record straight.
tfitz Saturday 15 November 2014
McCartney doesn't come across as very nice. yes, I know he was a beetle but he didn't have to screw around so much. That's juvenile behavior. Rock stars use that as an excuse all the time like it's no big deal.it is the big deal if you're in any kind of relationship.I think Linda was more controlling and was able to snag him — she came from money and wasn't intimidated.
Kath C Wednesday 10 December 2014
Linda Eastman (McCartney), if you do your homework, slept with every major name in the rock industry in hopes of bagging a big name. She was a real gold digger with an agenda in those days and it landed her one of the biggest names in the business. The kudos to her is that she turned herself around and really ended up doing what it takes to create a genuine love match that stood the test of time. Once she cleaned up her act and dedicated herself to the man she married and had the family, she earned the respect that deserved. But the proof is out there that she definitely didn't start out that way.
Uhmmm, so what is the proof that she was a gold digger who was trying to land a "big name"?. Her sleeping around with rock stars?. That's no proof of your claim whatsoever.
Has it ever occurred to you that she slpet with them because she liked them and was having some fun?.
Linda was a rich daughter of NYC lawyer Lee Eastman. Linda was a hippie chick who had many lovers in the rock world and got to meet them by being a photographer. I did read then that Lennon was her first choice but hey, Paul isn't a bad second choice. Funny, because Yoko had eyes for Paul initially but
bagged Lennon instead. Any old Beatle in a storm, I guess.
Cheryl Jane Bean Sunday 21 June 2015
Jane and Paul – the subject of many a teenage girl's fantasy. Beautiful, classy, chic – fodder for the teen magazines which created a haze of false stories, and thus brainwashed an entire generation of impressionable kids. The Paul they created never existed nor did the Jane they whipped up. They were two people with very different life styles and agendas. Too bad because I could have accepted Jane and not the bag woman with her keyboards and her off key voice.
Norah S Wednesday 8 August 2018
I read years ago that Linda never wanted to sing or pretend to be a musician. But Paul absolutely insisted that she do it.
JoAnn Tuesday 18 August 2015
Cheryl Jane Bean – smartest reply of all. Asher was a class act. Educated, beautiful, well-read, cultured. Anyone can hear Here, There and Everywhere, And I Love Her and other songs and know someone was in love with that woman. He loved both of them, but you can take the guy out of Liverpool, but you can't take the Liverpool out of the boy. I love McCartney's music, but his after Asher women choices were below the poverty level. Eastman was a pothead, by her own account. Definitely not an admirable rebound choice. His wife Nancy seems most like Asher. Obviously, well-heeled. One doesn't need money to be well-bred, but she is quite the sophisticate.
Know who put that marriage together (Nancy and Paul)?? Barbara Walters! She is Nancy's cousin. She advised her to act not too interested in Paul, not to clutchy or flattered by his attention. And it worked….playing hard to get will get you there.
It's a total lie. When Paul says Linda, he means Jane. Jane and he married 11th March 1964 in secret with both families and friends to share it. His so called marriage to Mills was really a vow renewal to Jane.
Lady Day Tuesday 25 December 2018
Where did you come up with that?
That's one I've never heard before?
karen Boromeo Thursday 1 October 2015
Personally I think Jane and Linda were just as beautiful and smart as each other. Jane was meant for Paul in his earlier yrs and Linda in his more maturing yrs. To some extent as John had Yoko an older motherly woman, I think Paul then decided he wanted an older motherly type of lady. Especially when both their mums passed when they were about 15yrs old. It was filling the emptiness they missed from their mums, both falling for more mature women.
castironshore Thursday 1 October 2015
Asher was perfect for paul,came from a successful family he admired and had great beauty and intelligence. However she was very much her own person and would not cede anything to mccartneys chauvinistic attitudes towards her career.
Linda was similar in a lot of ways, right down to her love of cooking. Where they differed was that linda was happy to take a back seat career wise and devote herself to paul and his music. And i guess that they both loved primo grade marijuana as well didn't hurt.
Michael K Sunday 4 October 2015
It's funny but I just came across the archive of 'Desert Island Discs' programme now online at the BBC's website and listened to a few Beatles-related things including Jane Asher's 1988 appearance.
There was a passing mention of 'The Beatles' by interviewer Sue Lawley but not Paul but then Jane chose 'Woman' by Peter (her brother) and Gordon as one of her favourite records. As the song was written about their relationship, I thought this was a sweet 'tribute' to the relationship she has otherwise never mentioned.
The other thing was that I'd never really heard her speak at length before and both from her choice of music otherwise and her general disposition, it's obvious that although these two probably loved each other a lot, she was not a 'rock n roll' woman and there was an essential incompatibility of interests.
I admire her greatly.
Murray M. Sunday 1 November 2015
The song, "I'm Looking Through You" is supposed to be about Jane Asher too.
Just can't see Jane as ever giving up her acting career to join Wings and don't know if Paul could have accepted her having her own career, unlike other Beatle women. Still surprised that Yoko said she had never heard of the Beatles when she met John.
EvieH Tuesday 2 February 2016
Why do so many articles about Paul and Jane's relationship end up with Jane vs. Linda discussion. Linda was obviously the love of Paul's life just as Gerald is the love of Jane's life. Paul and Linda were together for 29 years until her untimely death. Jane and Gerald have been together since 1971 – 45 years!
That said, Paul and Jane were very much in love. But they were very young — Paul was 21 when they met and Jane was a 17 year old virgin. Yes they were apart for long periods of time because Jane and Paul were a couple during the crazy days of Beatlemania from 1963 through mid-1968. NONE of the Beatles first marriages survived that time! Yes, Jane was committed to her career, but she was also quoted at the time as saying she would give up her career if it interfered with them being together. But seriously, what was Jane supposed to do? Sit home and wait for Paul to return from tour? That's what Cynthia and Maureen did: stayed home and raised their children but their marriages still broke up. If Paul had been dating Linda in 1963 I doubt that the relationship would have survived, even though they were soulmates. There was just too much pressure and too many women throwing themselves at all four Beatles. Paul did write some of his best love songs for Jane: Here, There and Everywhere, And I Love Her, Things We Said Today, Martha My Dear — along with songs like I'm Looking Through You and We Can Work it Out which examined the troubles in their relationship.
I admire Jane Asher for her intelligence, talent, strength and integrity. She didn't take crap from anyone not even Paul. There's a well known story about Jane and Paul being at a club with the other Beatles. John & Paul were pretty drunk and the two of them were crawling under tables and looking up womens' skirts and trying to grope them. Jane just got up and left. So she always had a great sense of pride and self-worth. Beatles biographer Hunter Davies says that Jane and Neil Aspinall were the only two Beatles intimates who never went on the record and sold their stories. And Neil worked for the Beatles' Apple Corp. until his death. I also give Jane a lot of credit for being a successful actress and career woman. She's authored 15 books including three novels, had a successful 25 year cake business and now sells a line of inexpensive baking tools at Poundland. She's a multi-millionaire in her own right. And she still looks great at almost 70.
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Eleanor Macca Monday 16 May 2016
@EvieH , my thoughts exactly!
Teddy Salad Wednesday 4 April 2018
Wait, are you calling Jane a dog?
aerialkate Wednesday 11 May 2016
The truth is Asher inspired many of his very best songs. Some are outright love songs which clearly show the depth of his feeling ( "they were just a media couple" – no, I sincerely doubt that ) and some which show the admittedly fraught side of their relationship. I know McCartney rates 'Maybe I'm Amazed' – I don't particularly. It's an alright song. I suspect because he wrote it for Linda he perpetually wants to 'big it up' for her; because the rest of the world tends to believe the Jane Asher inspired stuff he wrote on 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver' are his best. For me, he never wrote another classic love song after she walked out on him in '68. People have been so patronising to Asher regarding the relationship; constantly defining her in terms of a boyfriend she left behind in the 1960s. She's been happily married for nearly forty years. She's right when she protests that it's "insulting".
I've nothing against Linda – but all that "They never spent a night apart you know…" shtick we used to constantly hear never made me think "God they're so devoted to one another!" I suspect Linda learned from what happened to Jane – McCartney was a notorious womanizer – and she kept a close eye on her husband.
Asher had more of a sense of self and simply wasn't prepared to do it. I'd agree that Asher and McCartney were ultimately both better off married to other people. Given that Asher has never spoken about McCartney, the man should reciprocate by keeping it shut himself; but he's opened his gob one time too many for me. He was on Howard Stern the other day and Stern asked him how he'd managed to bed Asher while her parents were in the same house. McCartney answered the question. He shouldn't have done that – he's playing a dangerous game.
He's a fabulous musician who's written some amazing songs but I find him to be something of an insensitive jerk much of the time. For me, after Asher walked – he said goodbye to his Muse too. He'd been callous in his treatment of her and he deserved it.
i just agree with everything you said 🙂
colmdebhailis Tuesday 6 September 2016
Cheers to you. Spot on!
Brenda Jo Rodgers Monday 12 September 2016
Except PAUL was replaced in fall of 66. Linda Eastman, no relationship to Eastman Kodak, knew he was a replacement.
MikeP Monday 5 August 2019
SMH……… I really wish you people would just go away with that mindless B.S.
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PattyAnn Saturday 3 February 2018
Back then when The Beatles were young and yes, promiscuous, as were other popular singers and/or groups spawned from the "British Invasion", it was common practice to sleep around, and groupies threw themselves at these singing sensations (same went for The Rolling Stones as another example during their heyday). Therefore young women like Jane Asher were very brave to (attempt) take on a relationship with any member of this group, in this case, McCartney. These young women had to have known it was a lesson
In futility. The Beatles in their youth were only out for a good time, and as much as possible. Thus poor Jane didn't stand a chance of having a long term relationship then with Paul.
Fayez Abedaziz Friday 6 April 2018
Well, The Beatles were the sensation in the U.S. in 1964 and I have been a fan since.
I have always liked them and, here, lemme say, that, I liked Paul's music till now.
And I have always admired Paul as a good guy and fine family man.
Now then,
let's be honest:
Paul disrespected Jane by cheating on her and that particular day/episode was sad and it was sleazy.
Do you think that Paul was happy that day when Jane basically said,
bye don't call take a hike…
and , she was right. Many of us have made mistakes, as had Paul.
I have too and I was wrong and stupid.
Really, don't knock beautiful, good person Jane, it was all Paul's fault and doing.
Dig..?
lydia Tuesday 2 July 2019
McCartney said so himself, he was a chauvinist and didn't know how to treat women properly. Jane was someone who learned him a lot about life and inspired his music, tastes and probably a thing or two about what she won't put up with. I admire her for that and I'm convinced she molded a quite young Paul to be a more tolerable man for Linda who had it easier. Not to mention Jane and Paul's relationship was in the middle of the craziest years for the Beatles, which would put a strain on any relationship, meant to be or not. And then they both had their careers… Jane Asher remains my favourite Beatle girl cause she never gave up on her own goals and integrity, not to mention her beauty. And with the songs Paul wrote about her there's no denying his feelings or diminishing them for some childish Linda/Jane battle, his latest comments on Jane seem rooted in self-justification for his selfish (I'm quoting him) behaviour and bitterness. The art and love songs he made tell another story.
Stacy Kirby Thursday 5 September 2019
What a lot of people on this thread are missing is that when Paul was with Jane he was a Beatle and they were touring. He lived in Jane Ashers familys house (with her mom and dad and family) when he was in London and not touring. She was an aspiring actress and often away on projects as well. The house where Jane caught Paul having his fling was supposed to be their little nest to be together away from the fans and the pressures of the road. Unfortunately, his string of infidelities were part of those pressures and that was not going to change until the situation changed….and then it did. Touring was over and the Beatles were over and Paul was looking for a new direction and in walked Linda who set him on a new course which was basically that of a husband and a father and he did a good job but it was all about the timing. He was ready at that point and not before. Had Jane walked in at that moment, then it would have been her that he would have settled down with. The love was there but the timing was off and they both knew it. He basically wasn't ready for a responsible committed relationship at that time as much as he loved her but by the time Linda walked in he was. Timing is everything.
Trisha Wednesday 10 March 2021
I loved Linda and so did Paul. You are all goofy for saying all these negative things. Jane wanted to pursue a career. Paul wanted a wife and mother. Paul and Linda loved each other till she passed away in 1998. Actually, I think Linda was the nicer one of the couple. And how wonderful that he wanted Linda in his band.
Paul and Linda loved each other. He was a complete freaking mess from the beatles breakup, she got him through it. She got his self pitying ass out of bed. If not for her he would have died a drunk on his scottish farm. That being said, He knew damn well it was a mistake to put her in the band. She didn't want to do it. He was just sad and dependent at the time.
Paul and John loved each other. They ALWAYS talked about each other like ex spouses. In fact, John NEVER mentioned his first wife in any interview. Cynthia always knew she was number 2 after Paul. When John was murdered, Yoko called Paul first. Before Julian or Cynthia.
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