Linda McCartney: Learning on Stage When Wings formed in 1971, Linda McCartney was not a seasoned player. She had taken basic keyboard lessons before the Ram sessions and was still working out parts when rehearsals began. The early evidence survives. In February 1972, Wings toured British universities in a van — unannounced, under-rehearsed, deliberately small. Tapes from those halls catch the reality: simple organ figures, careful harmonies, a musician still finding footing. Reviews were unspari