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Paul McCartney’s Daughter Mary ‘Almost’ Didn’t Direct Abbey Road Studios Doc ‘Because of My Surname’

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Lily Fisher

Published Jan 19, 2026

Mary McCartney “grew up going to Monastery Street Studios” — however she didn’t know that she was the perfect individual to recount to the notable foundation’s story because of her connection to her renowned dad. The 53-year-old picture taker, movie producer and girl of Sir Paul McCartney coordinated another narrative for Disney+ named If These Walls Would Sing about the historical backdrop of Monastery Street Studios, where the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kate Shrub and other incredible performers have recorded.

In another meeting with NME, Mary talked top to bottom about chipping away at the film, noticing that it was en educational experience notwithstanding she and her family investing energy at the studio while Paul recorded with his band, Wings. “Basically all that I learnt [for the first time].

We wouldn’t lounge around as a family and discuss these Beatles stories,” she told the power source.

While making the film, she gleaned some useful knowledge about her dad. “It was truly fascinating getting the set of experiences from him, since I hadn’t addressed him about it in like that,” proceeded with Mary. “At the point when it’s your family, you don’t plunk down and interview them about things, so I advanced such a great amount through the cycle.”

She likewise said that her 80-year-old father gave her “little tips” and “pieces” after learning she was coordinating the narrative: “So he sort of shown me how Nunnery Street truly was huge, being a recording studio, yet [how] the personality of the spot has truly worked its direction onto a considerable amount of the music there.”

Regardless of her experience as a picture taker, music video chief and TV character, in any case, she at first felt that her connection to the popular Beatle could cloud the film. “In light of my family name, I nearly avoided doing the task, on the grounds that occasionally I can overthink it and be like, ‘It’s excessively close’, and, ‘You really want to simply be free,'” made sense of Mary.

In any case, she went on with the venture since she confided in maker John Battsek and appreciated the “astonishing type” of its partners — as the film highlights interviews with Paul, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Nile Rodgers, Noel and Liam Gallagher, George Lucas and more craftsmen. “I realized [Battsek] wouldn’t ask me except if he truly was doing it in light of my profession.

He wouldn’t simply agree, ‘We should get Mary McCartney to make it happen,'” Mary noted. “I viewed it exceptionally in a serious way and expertly.”

On the off chance that These Walls Could Sing is accessible now on Disney+.