![]() It was released in the UK on January 6, 2023. On December 16, 2022, “ If These Walls Could Sing” was released on the Disney+ streaming service in the US. Among the invitees were Mary McCartney, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. On December 12, 2022, a launch party was organized at Abbey Road Studios. It premiered in September 2022 at Telluride Film Festival. The documentary was announced in January 2021, explaining it would “ form the centrepiece of Abbey Road Studios’ 90th-anniversary celebrations which begin in November this year“. Maybe McCartney will someday pull aside the curtain on those years as well.“ If These Walls Could Sing” is a documentary film directed by Mary McCartney, in her feature documentary debut, about the history of Abbey Road Studios in London and the experiences and memories of the musicians who have played there. It was a love story that would continue for another 18 years. ![]() All he really needed was Linda and his family. He had proven to himself that he could stand on his own musically. With the band, McCartney kept the hits coming, from “Band on the Run” and “Live and Let Die” to “Silly Love Songs.” The tunes didn’t assert the savage self-examination or boldness of Lennon’s solo work-yet there is in the music the sort of soothing warmth that McCartney found in his family life.īy the end of the ‘70s, McCartney realized that he no longer needed Wings. The other personnel would change so much that there were seven different Wings lineups in less than a decade. In fact, McCartney wanted the comfort of her by his side. From a distance, it looked like she was forcing herself on the band. The only person he really needed in Wings was Linda, whose role as a keyboardist and backing vocalist in the band opened her to more attack because she had no background in music. He wanted to be the one in charge this time. One reason-unexplored in the documentary-is that he didn’t want to set himself up for the kind of conflicts that he experienced in the Beatles. ![]() The easiest thing would have been to assemble an all-star supergroup, but he rejected the idea. McCartney knew that he didn’t want to be a solo artist, so he decided to start another band. Considering he was the most powerful figure in rock, you’d think he’d rely on a battery of advisors to plot strategy after the Beatles split.īut there was no master plan. To make things worse in their eyes, she was an American divorcee.Įspecially intriguing in “Wingspan” is the way McCartney operates so much on instinct. He also reminds us of the resentment of Linda by many young female Beatles fans. The ex-Beatle traces how he met Linda, a rock photographer and daughter of wealthy New York attorney Lee Eastman, at a club in London in 1967, and how their courtship progressed. In “Wingspan,” however, McCartney pushes aside that curtain. If John Lennon bared his soul in his music and in his interviews, McCartney drew a curtain. Even if he brought Linda on stage and into the studio with him, the couple lived quietly with their four children (one from Linda’s former marriage) in remote areas of southern England and in Scotland. One of its key lines: “Maybe I’m amazed at the way I really need you.”Īnother reason the documentary is so revealing is that McCartney over the years has remained private even while in the public eye. The connection between his personal life and his music is immediately underscored by the playing of “Maybe I’m Amazed,” a love song to Linda in 1970 that stressed the rock star’s dependence on her. If I had to do that on my own, I’m not sure I would have got out of it, but very luckily your mom was there steer me in a good direction.” and that was a path that was not going to be a good one. ![]() When I did get up, I wouldn’t shave or bother with anything. “I was very insecure, very paranoid, very out of work, very useless,” McCartney says in the documentary, describing the weeks after the Beatles split. At the center of that reflection is his wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998.
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