Mary McCartney might be the daughter of music legend Sir Paul McCartney and the late culinary entrepreneur Linda McCartney, but she’s also a hugely successful businesswoman in her own right.
The 53-year-old is a portrait and fashion photographer, and has written a cookbook and hosted a cookery show.
Now Mary has ventured into documentary filmmaking and her debut, If These Walls Could Sing, has already blown away film critics and the music world. It celebrates 90 years of the world-famous London recording studio Abbey Road, where Mary spent a lot of time growing up, watching her parents recording tracks with Wings, the band Paul formed after The Beatles parted ways in 1970.
“I was wondering if it was almost a bit too close to home,” Mary tells us as we sit down to chat to her about the film. “But I’m a huge documentary watcher. I love them and I think the ones that are successful are the ones where it’s something close to the director’s heart. So this definitely fits the bill.”
Mary spent years playing in the iconic studio’s corridors with her siblings Heather, 59, Stella, 51, and James, 45, and she says her standout memory of that time is her parents relaxing when they took some time out from recording. She recalls “seeing mum and dad having a lunch break and they’d get us kids along to say hi”, adding, “It’s always a little emotional walking in there and reminiscing about past times.”
During the feature-length documentary, a black-and-white image of Linda walking her pony, Jet, across the famous zebra crossing outside the building, with Paul also in the shot, is shared with viewers. In the preview Mary reveals that photo was the driving force behind her wanting to do the documentary.
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