Linda McCartney/Biography

==Early life==
Linda Louise Eastman was born the second-eldest of four children, to Jewish-American parents in New York City. She had one older brother, John (10 July 1939), and two younger sisters, Laura (born 1947) and Louise Jr. (born 1950). She grew up in the wealthy Scarsdale area of Westchester County, New York, and graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1959. Her father was the son of Jewish-Russion immigrants. He changed his name from Leopold Vail Epstein to Lee Eastman, and was not related to George Eastman of Eastman Kodak fame. He was songwriter Jack Lawrence's attorney, and at this request in 1942, Lawrence, while in the army, wrote a song called Linda in honor of the one-year-old. It was published in 1946, and recorded by Buddy Clark in 1947.