Mary McCartney

here comes our next guest the king and queen of visual storytelling who've joined forces to bring george michael the faith tour to the big screen from next friday the 6th of november so please welcome the legendary extraordinary visionary dream team it's david austin and mary mccartney yes mary how are

you

sit down thank you very much

Amazing response.

Stunning.

How did it come about, Mary McCartney?

Well, I had a phone call and I was invited to meet with David, who I'd met a couple of times with George Michael back in the day.

A couple of naughty dinners.

We'd heard the rumor long before, but suddenly, in that autumn of 1969, stirred up by a DJ in America, it took on a force all its own, so that millions of fans around the world believed I was actually gone.

At one point, I turned to my new wife and asked, "'Linda, how can I possibly be dead?' She smiled as she held our new baby, Mary, as aware of the power of gossip and the absurdity of these ridiculous newspaper headlines as I was.

But she did point out that we had beaten a hasty retreat from London to this remote farm up in Scotland, precisely to get away from the kind of malevolent talk that was bringing the Beatles down.

But now that over a half century has passed since those truly crazy times, I'm beginning to think that the rumors were more accurate than one might have thought at the time.

So I worked...

I spent a day working for Mary McCartney.

Do you remember me telling you this? Did I tell you this?

No, you didn't tell me this.

Yeah.

Okay.

So Mary McCartney, I think she's either the firstborn or second born of the McCartneys, right? So daughter of Paul McCartney.

Of Paul and Linda.