#If These Walls Could Sing

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Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr and their families at the documentary premiere of "If These Walls Could Sing" in London, December 12, 2022.

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Noel and Liam, as photographed by Mary McCartney, for her project "If These Walls Could Sing"

[love-music-fashion-flawless]

If These Walls Could Sing (2022) dir. Mary McCartney

[thestarsarecool]

he’s so annoying god bless

[underthecitysky]

"I do remember [meeting] John," said McCartney. "I was a kid, but I remember us all going over as a family to visit. It was John and Yoko [Ono] and [their son] Sean. We all just hung out in his apartment [as a family]."

Mary McCartney on meeting John Lennon (x)

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Noel by Mary McCartney

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NEW JIMMY PAGE INTERVIEW

From the new Disney+ documentary on Abbey Road Studios, If These Walls Could Sing, released Dec 16, 2022 (US) – Jan 6, 2023 (UK)

“I was a studio musician. And so I was coming in here probably about the age of 17 on. 17, 18, 19, 20, and on [laughs] even longer!

Obviously you know me as an electric guitarist, but I can also play acoustic guitar. So, uh– And I could play harmonica. So I was booked in on sessions doing harmonica, blues harmonica, or be it finger-style guitar playing, folk guitar playing, as it was then very much the sort of vogue. And then electric guitar and slide playing and all this sort of stuff.

Done all manner of things at big studio number one, where they did the film music. And that’s where the Goldfinger track with Shirley Bassey was recorded, in there, and I was on that session. John Barry is running it through. It’s absolutely, like, spine-chilling when it starts off, and I’m sort of playing along. I wasn’t that far away from where she was. I’m more or less in the front line of it. And all the orchestral stuff is behind them. Right at the end of the take, she had a very powerful voice, I can hear her doing this sort of last note. And then she collapses on the floor. It was absolutely so dramatic. And, of course, when she sings, she’s doing all the histrionics and things. It was something that you’d never, never forget. Absolutely.”

[nevereverywhere]

✨ Paul and Ringo ✨

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Sharna Ligus Sttarkey, Lee Starkey, Jay Mehler, Ian Broudie and Simon Aboud attend the Disney Original Documentary's "If These Walls Could Sing" London Premiere at Abbey Road Studios on December 12, 2022 in London, England.

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BEST DOCUMENTARIES OF 2022

Documentary as a genre can encompass any medium: feature film, TV mini-series, or even podcasts. Here are my picks for the best Docs of the year:

Honorable Mentions:    

Meet Me in the Bathroom  Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern

Nothing Compares  Kathryn Ferguson

Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99  Jamie Crawford

George Carlin’s American Dream  Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio

The Beatles and India  Ajoy Bose and Peter Compton

Freedom Uncut  David Austin and George Michael

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, A Song  Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine

Sidney  Reginald Hudlin

10. Back to the Drive-In  April Wright

9. Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres  Suzanne Joe Kai

8. Is That Black Enough for You?!?  Elvis Mitchell

7. Claydream  Marq Evans

6. If These Walls Could Sing  Mary McCartney

5. Stutz  Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill sits down with his therapist for a doc about the therapist and his approach, that is insightful and thought-provoking.

4. The Pez Outlaw  Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel

This profile of a man who smuggled rare Pez dispensers into America in the 90s and made millions is so crazy and outlandish you need to see it to believe it!

3. Moonage Daydream  Brett Morgen

Morgen’s doc about David Bowie was made with the Bowie Estate and had some rare footage of the rock legend, but it was really the sci-fi approach to the subject that made this electric!

2. Good Night Oppy  Ryan White

The inspirational story of Opportunity, the Mars rover that was expected to live 90 days and explored Mars for 15 years, was the big screen Event Movie of documentaries in 2022!

1. Last Flight Home  Ondi Timoner

Ondi turned the camera onto her father Eli Timoner towards the end of his life with a cinema vérité account of the family confronting death. This went beyond a movie or a documentary and was truly an emotional life experience that was captured on film by one of the people experiencing it. Nothing but respect and admiration for Ondi and her brave filmmaking at such a time.

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If These Walls Could Sing Premiere

December 13, 2022

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new-to-me #844 - If These Walls Could Sing

[mollyboughtthering]

Oh my god how the hell did i not know that there was a new documentary directed by Mary McCartney about ABBEY ROAD?????

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New Abby Road documentary by Mary McCartney.

Jimmy is one of the interviewees in the film.

"For the most part, the movie leans toward being a collection of mini-essays about individual recording experiences, which is as it should be, probably. Jimmy Page, who was a session guitarist on the 1964 “Goldfinger” theme song session, describes how Shirley Bassey elongated that last note until she actually collapsed. That might count as a highlight of the movie if it weren’t superseded by a vintage mid-’60s film clip of a teenage Page being interviewed by ITV about his experiences at what was then still called the EMI studio, in which he says meeting his heroes as a session player there has been “disappointing” — and he says it in a squeaky voice that sounds yet unaffected by puberty."

[underthecitysky]

"I do remember [meeting] John," said McCartney. "I was a kid, but I remember us all going over as a family to visit. It was John and Yoko [Ono] and [their son] Sean. We all just hung out in his apartment [as a family]."

Mary McCartney on meeting John (x)

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DISNEY+ | IF THESE WALLS COULD SING | DAL 6 GENNAIO IN STREAMING

DISNEY+ | IF THESE WALLS COULD SING | DAL 6 GENNAIO IN STREAMING

If These Walls Could Sing è il primo lungometraggio della regista Mary McCartney ed è prodotto dai premi Oscar® e BAFTA John Battsek (The Rescue – Il salvataggio dei ragazzi, Searching for Sugar Man), Sarah Thomson e Miles Coleman, sotto la società di produzione Ventureland. Gli executive producer sono Alice Webb e Marc Robinson dei Mercury Studios e Kerstin Emhoff e Ali Brown di Ventureland.…