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Angie McCartney Angie McCartney is the Stepmother to Paul McCartney. She married her first husband Eddie in 1956 and daughter Ruth was born in February 1960. Sadly, Angie was widowed in 1962, and in 1964, her old friends Bette and Mike Robbins introduced her to Bette’s Uncle, Jim McCartney. Angie and Jim were married in 1964. Here, Angie chats about her childhood in Liverpool, her memories of being in a famous family and of Paul coming home from touring and finding solace in his father’s vegetable garden. Angie is an author who now lives in the USA. Her latest book is From Liverpool to Los Angeles, Your Mother Should Know. The Last Post: Angie McCartney, good morning to you. It’s Greg Ross from the Last Post. Thank you so much for joining us. Angie McCartney: Oh, good morning. My pleasure. I’m so pleased to be invited. Thank you TLP: Angie, it’s lovely to hear your voice, and of course you are stepmother to Paul McCartney and loving wife to Jim McCartney. You’ve had quite a history yourself. You had a first book, My Long and Winding Road, about growing up in Liverpool. You detailed your memories of tram rides along the Liverpool docks and you painted a picture. Your second book, From Liverpool to Los Angeles, Your Mother Should Know,
has just been released about your life and your daughter Ruth’s life. Tell us a bit more about that. I guess the journey begins in Liverpool. AM: Well, yes. My journey begins in Liverpool, of course. I was born there in 1929, 90 years ago would you believe? Yes, God I’m that old. TLP: You’re beautiful. AM: About a year ago people said to me, “Isn’t it time you wrote us another book?” and I hadn’t thought about it at that stage. And they said, “Well, you know, such a lot has happened in the world of cyberspace and artificial intelligence and all kinds of stuff.” So I just decided to get cracking and write a few chapters. I put some stuff in about my own early days, in case
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people didn’t know about the first book and said, “Who the heck is this Angie McCartney?” So it combines some of the old stuff, and then stuff about what’s been going on in recent years. My daughter suggested that we post in QR codes, which are quick response codes at the end of several chapters, and you can get the free app on your cellphone, the QR Codes, and click on it and it’ll take you to either a video, a YouTube, an article, a press clipping, or whatever for more information on whatever I’ve just been writing about. So people get extra bang for the buck. You know? TLP: Yeah, well-said too, Angie. And how modern. How absolutely modern. But let’s go back, if we
