Joseph Melville See Jr. Linda McCartney’s Ex-Husband Was “JoJo” From Tucson, Arizona In The Beatles “Get Back”
"Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass."
There was speculation that the character of "JoJo" from The Beatles song "Get Back" was based on Joseph Melville See Jr., Linda McCartney's first husband, and biological father of Heather Louise McCartney as he was from Tucson, Arizona. Paul McCartney denied this, explaining in his 1988 autobiography Many Years From Now, that he and Linda were on good terms with See, who used the first name Melville, and that "JoJo" was "an imaginary character, half-man and half-woman." See never remarried and he committed suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 19, 2000, at his home in Tucson. This happened one week after he discovered that Linda's entire estate, valued at over $220M was left to Paul McCartney.
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I knew Mel from 1975 until he died…he spent a lot of time with my family. I can assure you that he had no designs on Linda's money and his suicide had absolutely nothing to do with it. It is offensive that you should imply such a thing since you have no knowledge of what was occuring to him personally before he killed himself.
What happen to the poor guy?
He was a substitute teacher of mine at Greenfields in Tucson and told everyone that he was married to linda and that the song "get back" was about him. None of the students believed him until his death in 2000 when it was exposed as the truth. Nice guy.