Paul and Martha, Keystone-France, 1967.

“Martha was my first ever pet. I never had a dog or cat at home.” Paul McCartney paid ten guineas (about $29 at the time) for the Old English Sheepdog, saying she resembled “a huge, tangled ball of wool.” She was born on June 16, 1966, in High Wycombe. He drove her home in his Aston Martin DB6 to his new mansion in St. John’s Wood. The song “Martha, My Dear,” from The White Album, was named for her. In 1981 Martha died at Paul’s High Park Farm in Scotland after fifteen years together. Paul said he and Martha talked often of “love, business, and music.”
                                    
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