{"id":7259,"date":"2025-12-04T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:49:01","slug":"it-begins-not-with-a-beatle-but-with-a-daughter-quietly-turning-her-camera-toward-the-man-the-world-thinks-it-already-knows-and-in-mary-mccartneys-new-documentary-paul-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=7259","title":{"rendered":"It begins not with a Beatle, but with a daughter quietly turning her camera toward the man the world thinks it already knows \u2014 and in Mary McCartney\u2019s new documentary, Paul is revealed not as an icon on a stadium stage, but as a father humming half-finished melodies in the kitchen, a survivor of unimaginable loss, and a man whose tenderness runs as deep as the ballads he wrote\u2026 a portrait so intimate and unguarded that early viewers say it feels like finally meeting the heart behind No More Lonely Nights."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"loc article-header\">\n<div id=\"people-article-header_1-0\" class=\"comp people-article-header mntl-article-header\">\n<p class=\"article-subheading text-utility-300\">Mary McCartney said her late mom Linda McCartney inspired her to direct the upcoming documentary<em> If These Walls Could Sing<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-article-meta-dynamic_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-article-meta-dynamic mntl-article-meta mntl-block pre-content\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<div id=\"bylines_1-0\" class=\"comp bylines people-bylines mntl-bylines text-utility-200\">\n<div id=\"mntl-bylines__group_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-bylines__group mntl-block mntl-bylines__group--author\">\n<div id=\"mntl-bylines__item_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-bylines__item mntl-attribution__item \">\n<div class=\"mntl-dynamic-tooltip--trigger\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Rachel DeSantis is a senior\u00a0writer\u00a0on the music team at PEOPLE. 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She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"loc article-content\">\n<div id=\"article-content_1-0\" class=\"comp article-content mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-page mntl-block structured-content\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"90\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"24\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"4\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150, 3550, 3950]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">For some children, spending time in their parents&#8217; place of work can be a drag. For\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/food\/mary-mccartney-makes-meat-free-meal-dad-paul-mccartney-and-talks-the-familys-holiday-traditions\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Mary McCartney<\/a>, though, going to work with mom and dad meant spending time in one of the most legendary recording studios of all time: Abbey Road Studios.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">It makes sense, then, that it&#8217;s McCartney, daughter of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/the-beatles\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Beatle<\/a>\u00a0Paul McCartney, who is bringing the London locale&#8217;s storied history to the silver screen in her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/beatles-elton-john-revere-abbey-road-studios-documentary-disney-trailer\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">new documentary<em>\u00a0If These Walls Could Sing<\/em><\/a>, which will hit Disney+ on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I had no idea that it was 90 years old. I&#8217;ve grown up going my whole life, but I never knew all the facts,&#8221; the photographer, filmmaker and cookbook author, 53, told PEOPLE at the film&#8217;s Wednesday night premiere in N.Y.C. &#8220;So I&#8217;ve really immersed myself in it and really dissected the stories and I think there&#8217;s some surprises in there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">McCartney first felt moved to begin work on the project after she spotted a 1977 photo of her parents, Paul and his first wife\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/paul-mccartney-cried-for-year-after-wife-linda-death\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Linda McCartney<\/a>, strolling through a nearby crosswalk with a pony in tow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme figure-landscape figure-high-res\">\n<div class=\"figure-media\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"mntl-sc-block-image_1-0\" class=\"mntl-image mntl-image universal-image__image lazyloadwait lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/Ktkkb3q7VxFxD46ws94p4n-3n6w=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(939x305:941x307):format(webp)\/paul-mary-mccartney-abbey-road-documentary-120822-be4372fee27147ee825955abf6345381.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 4000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/Ktkkb3q7VxFxD46ws94p4n-3n6w=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(939x305:941x307):format(webp)\/paul-mary-mccartney-abbey-road-documentary-120822-be4372fee27147ee825955abf6345381.jpg 4000w\" alt=\"Sir Paul McCartney and Mary McCartney attend the UK Premiere of &quot;The Beatles: Get Back&quot; at Cineworld Empire on November 16, 2021 in London, England.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/Ktkkb3q7VxFxD46ws94p4n-3n6w=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(939x305:941x307):format(webp)\/paul-mary-mccartney-abbey-road-documentary-120822-be4372fee27147ee825955abf6345381.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/Ktkkb3q7VxFxD46ws94p4n-3n6w=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(939x305:941x307):format(webp)\/paul-mary-mccartney-abbey-road-documentary-120822-be4372fee27147ee825955abf6345381.jpg 4000w\" data-sizes=\"4000px\" data-expand=\"300\" data-tracking-container=\"true\" data-img-lightbox=\"true\" data-click-tracked=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 figure-article-caption\"><span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Paul McCartney and Mary McCartney.<\/span><span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\">Karwai Tang\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I love the picture of my mom going over the zebra crossing. She had a little pony in London. That&#8217;s one of the reasons I wanted to do [the film],&#8221; she said. &#8220;I snuck her into it a few times. There&#8217;s an homage to her. She&#8217;s my inspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Though Linda died of cancer in 1998 at age 56, McCartney was able to get dad Paul, 80, on board, who shared with her the sort of insight only a former Beatle like himself could know.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I was with him and I was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to make this documentary about the history of Abbey Road,&#8217; and he would just sort of give me little tips. It was good! He was mulling it over and he sort of told me little anecdotes,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The star recalled one interview in particular with the &#8220;Band on the Run&#8221; singer, and said he was eager to talk not only about the studio itself, but about the people who worked there.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;He was keen to talk about how the people there had helped them\u2014staff, people behind the scenes, engineers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He feels passionate about it. I think in the documentary you see how passionate he is about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme figure-landscape figure-high-res\">\n<div class=\"figure-media\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"mntl-sc-block-image_2-0\" class=\"mntl-image mntl-image universal-image__image lazyloadwait lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/n53fSJOv_WCHvojai9pQT0XFg5Q=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(979x332:981x334):format(webp)\/mary-mccartney-if-these-walls-could-sing-120822-2-ebb659a4dcb24c5ab0fcaa336c129661.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 4000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/n53fSJOv_WCHvojai9pQT0XFg5Q=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(979x332:981x334):format(webp)\/mary-mccartney-if-these-walls-could-sing-120822-2-ebb659a4dcb24c5ab0fcaa336c129661.jpg 4000w\" alt=\"British filmmaker Mary McCartney arrives for the premiere of &quot;If These Walls Could Sing,&quot; at the Metrograph in New York City on December 7, 2022.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/n53fSJOv_WCHvojai9pQT0XFg5Q=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(979x332:981x334):format(webp)\/mary-mccartney-if-these-walls-could-sing-120822-2-ebb659a4dcb24c5ab0fcaa336c129661.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/n53fSJOv_WCHvojai9pQT0XFg5Q=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(979x332:981x334):format(webp)\/mary-mccartney-if-these-walls-could-sing-120822-2-ebb659a4dcb24c5ab0fcaa336c129661.jpg 4000w\" data-sizes=\"4000px\" data-expand=\"300\" data-tracking-container=\"true\" data-img-lightbox=\"true\" data-click-tracked=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 figure-article-caption\"><span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Mary McCartney.<\/span><span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\">ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Though McCartney said she put most of the &#8220;juicy stuff&#8221; in the documentary, there were some fun details left on the cutting room floor \u2014 like the ways in which Linda found some unexpected benefits in Abbey Road.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;It was somewhere where I grew up, and my mom apparently would come around and be like, &#8216;Could somebody babysit the kids tonight?&#8217; That kind of thing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It shows how I grew up there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_29-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The studio has famously played host to everyone from The Beatles and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/llittle-richard-dies-at-87\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Little Richard<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/pink-floyd\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Pink Floyd<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/spice-girls\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">Spice Girls<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/lady-gaga\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"4\">Lady Gaga<\/a>. In more recent years, it&#8217;s also become a destination for film scoring; movies like\u00a0<em>Black Panther\u00a0<\/em>and many of the\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0scores were recorded there.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_31-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><em>If These Walls Could Sing<\/em>\u00a0incorporates vintage footage of artists recording, as well as new interviews with McCartney,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/elton-john\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Elton John<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ringo-starr\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Ringo Starr<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/noel-gallagher\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">Noel Gallagher<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/pink-floyds-roger-waters-denies-canceling-poland-concerts\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"4\">Roger Waters<\/a>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary McCartney said her late mom Linda McCartney inspired her to direct the upcoming documentary If These Walls Could Sing Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. 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