Overview
- The feature-length documentary is now streaming worldwide on Prime Video after limited festival and one-night theatrical previews.
- It traces McCartney’s life from The Beatles’ breakup through the rise of Wings and closes the chapter with John Lennon’s death, drawing on home movies, Linda McCartney’s photographs and studio tapes.
- McCartney called the film “wonderful” to watch for letting him see “so much” of his late wife Linda, describing the experience as a vivid flashback of that period.
- He acknowledged asking director Morgan Neville to remove some “embarrassing” or “silly” clips—such as performing Mary Had a Little Lamb in a red nose—but Neville kept them to serve the story’s arc.
- Neville eschews on-camera talking heads in favor of audio interviews with McCartney, his daughters, Sean Ono Lennon, Mick Jagger, Chrissie Hynde and former Wings members, and early reviews note its sympathetic reassessment, including NME’s four-star rating.