Paul McCartney’s little-known stepmother, Angie, has written an autobiography, My Long & Winding Road.
“We lived quite a quiet life, when I think about it,” says Angie, now 83. “Jim was a quiet conservative man who didn’t like a fuss. Yes, we used to have photographers and reporters outside, but inside it was all very simple.”
Angie had been introduced to the widower Jim by a mutual friend after her first husband, Eddie, died. She had a young daughter, Ruth. Angie said of the senior McCartney, “We talked a lot about our lives, our loneliness, our need to take the next steps’, and married the year they met.