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From Many Years From Now by Barry Miles (page 433) on Paul and Linda's first meeting:
Paul
It was the first evening any of us had ever heard a record called
A Whiter Shade of Pale with words about feeling seasick.
The lyrics were all very strange and poetic and the theme was a
famous Bach theme but we didn't know that. We just thought, God,
what an incredible record! It was sort of a marker record. It was
a benchmark. And we were all trying to guess who it was.
So we had to go to the booth and ask, 'What was that one you just played?' and he said, 'Oh yes, Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. 'Procol what? Is it Latin or something?' And there were rumours around about what that meant. So all the mystery of the evening.
Linda
I remember everybody at the table heard A Whiter Shade of Pale
that night for the first time and we all thought, Who is that?
Stevie Winwood? We all said Stevie. The minute that record came
out, you just knew you loved it....
Sent to the Procol Harum mail-list by Marvin Chassman
Nigel Slater
in
The Observer 29 April 2007
Already a respected professional photographer, Linda – daughter of lawyer
Lee Eastman and Louise Linder Eastman, heir to the Linder department-store
fortune – had arrived in London with a commission to take pictures of
musicians and ended up committing the heinous crime of falling in love with
every woman's favourite Beatle. They met at a Georgie Fame concert, going on
to see
Procol Harum at the Speakeasy Club
before she flew back to New York, without even exchanging phone numbers. The
couple were to meet again at the launch party for Sgt Pepper's and,
yet again, in New York at a party for the Beatles' Apple record label. It
was finally Paul who made the move and phoned to ask her to accompany him on
a trip to Los Angeles. And it was Paul who would ask her, several times, to
marry him.
See also MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS – MY LIFE WITH THE BEATLES by Tony Bramwell (excerpt here: as Charlie Allison writes to BtP, this is a variant on the story of Paul and Linda hearing AWSoP on their first date - here it appears they went to a Procol Harum gig: he adds 'Funny how she would have heard Bill Eyden at the Georgie Fame gig'!).
See also The Beatles Anthology
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