His marriage to her was one of pop’s great love stories for almost 30 years. These 2 met at a night club Located in a basement in Soho, London.
This was the late sixties and the two were watching a performer that went by the name Georgie Fame (with his backup band the Blue Flames). At
the time, she was a photographer for a small rock magazine and happened to be at the club with the group “The Animals”, who she had
photographed earlier that year in New York. And at the time, he was a singer/songwriter/basses/piano player/etc… of arguably the biggest rock
band in the whole world. And if you heard our podcast last time or saw our Facebook post/poll, then you know that this week we are talking about
Sir Paul McCartney & Linda Eastman.
10 Apr 2025
Salvador Dali & Gala
There is a saying that behind every great man there’s a great woman. Today we present one of the truest examples of that. This is the story of a brilliant Surrealist painter & his wife, without whom he would have never become an icon of modern art. She was 10 years older than him and when they met in 1929 she was also married to someone else and was a mother of a little girl. She also had a lover, who painted her in a number of portraits. But, it was a love at first sight. In his book “Secret Life”, he wrote: “She was destined to be my Gradiva, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife”. The name Gradiva comes from the title of a novel by W. Jensen, the main character of which was Sigmund Freud. Gradiva was the book’s heroine and it was her who brought psychological healing to him, the main character. If you hear our last podcast, then you know we are talking about Salvador Dali & his wife Gala.
10 Apr 2025
F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Sayre
To mention these two is to invoke the 1920s, the Jazz Age, romance, and their outrageous early success, with all its attendant pitfalls. Their names can summon images of taxis at dusk, they conjure images of gleaming hotel lobbies and smoky speakeasies, flappers, yellow phaetons, white suits, large tips, expatriates, and nostalgia for the Lost Generation. They also remind us of what the effect of alcoholism and mental health can have on a marriage. These two were reckless and abandoned. So, if you heard our last podcast, then you know we are talking about F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Sayre.
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