On this day : Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office on 12 March 1969.
Amid much sobbing from Paul’s attendant army of female fans, he and Linda kept their registry office date, with Paul’s brother Mike and Mal Evans as witnesses. No other Beatles were present. As he would later reveal to confidant Barry Miles in the book Many Years From Now, McCartney and his future wife almost didn’t get that far.
“We were crazy,” he said. “We had a big argument the night before we got married and it was nearly called off. We were very up and down, quite funky compared to the eventual image of ‘Twenty-five years of married bliss! Aren’t they lucky for people in showbiz?’ But we are. You get this picture of us swanning along in a little rowboat managing to avoid the white water, but we were right in the middle of that white water, man, so it’s even more miraculous that we made it. But we did.”
Mike McCartney’s train broke down during his journey from Birmingham to London, and he arrived an hour late, he took the waiting limousine to the register office, where he found huge crowds of weeping fans.
Inside Paul and Linda were waiting for him to arrive. British fans reacted negatively, partly because his marriage ended McCartney’s status as the last unattached Beatle.
The second part of the wedding takes place at the St John’s Wood anglican church, and is officiated by priest Noel Perry.
Later, party at the Hotel Ritz.
Evening: Paul works on a Jackie Lomax record.
Paul McCartney was having a busy time in March that year.
The Beatles were on the verge of releasing “Get Back” as a single.
He and George Harrison were immersed in their work with Apple Records signing Jackie Lomax.
Paul had no time for a stag night. He only announced his betrothal to Lee and Louise Eastman’s second oldest of four children the day before the ceremony. On the night of March 11, far from any revelry on the last evening of his bachelorhood, Paul was in the basement studio of Apple Records in London’s Savile Row with George. There, they worked on plans for Lomax’s next Apple single, to be the follow-up to George’s song “Sour Milk Sea.”
Paul was keen for Lomax to release his cover of the Coasters’ “Thumbin’ A Ride” to be his next 45, and played drums and guitar on the session that night, with George on lead guitar. In the end, a different track, “New Day,” became Lomax’s next release, with “Thumbin’ A Ride” on the B-side.
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