Video: 'UK: LONDON: PAUL MCCARTNEY LEADS TRIBUTES TO WIFE LINDA'

(Monday, June 8, 1998) — The surviving Beatles came together today to pay an emotional farewell to the late Linda McCartney, wife and soul-mate of former Beatle Paul McCartney who died of breast cancer on Apr. 17, 1998, at age 56.

The memorial service at the Church of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields in London’s Trafalgar Square was the first time that McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison had appeared in public together for three decades.

A 700-strong congregation — which included a who’s-who in pop music — attended the service, at one point singing “Let It Be,” the poignant ballad McCartney wrote for his own mother Mary, who died of breast cancer when he was 14 years old.