

The gig was filmed and later broadcast by BBC, on Christmas Day 2020, as Paul McCartney at the Cavern Club.

McCartney credits wife Linda with playing an invaluable role in getting him to continue making music after the Beatles' breakup: “To have lost such a great job - and it was really the only job I'd ever had, besides being second man on a truck when I was a kid, and a paper route - it was quite a shock. On 26 July 2018, McCartney played at The Cavern Club, with his regular band of Anderson, Ray, Wickens and Abe Laboriel Jr. Paul McCartney A 1970 snap of Mary, Paul and Heather in Scotland Sir Paul, now 77, told BBC Radio Scotlands Ricky Ross Meets programme his late wife was a trailblazing photographer before. It really throws ya, y'know? I mean, as anyone who's had that type of thing happen knows, y'know, it just suddenly makes you think: 'Am I any use to anyone? 'Cause I was very useful yesterday, playing bass and singing - but that's all broken up now.'” Born 12 September 1977, James is the youngest child of Paul and Linda McCartney, and Paul’s only son. Paul McCartney explained that splitting with John Lennon and the Beatles was absolutely devastating to him: “The Beatles' breakup was quite shocking to me, really. It was not an easy thing for Dad, and it lasted for a lot longer than we probably knew.” Paul McCartney’s kids Stella, Mary, and James all showed their support for their dad, as he celebrated the premiere of his new documentary If These Walls Could Sing in London on Monday, December 12. Can you imagine being such a critical part of that creation and then having it crumble? And, as children, we were part of a process in which our dad was mourning. Stella, who was born in 1971 - the year after the “Fab Four” officially called it quits, spoke to The New Yorker and after watching a special edit of the new Peter Jackson Beatles documentary Get Back, admitted, “It did occur to me, watching it, that we spent a lot of our childhood with Dad recovering from the turmoil and the breakup.

Paul and Linda McCartney's daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, has a clear view of her father and his new life after the Beatles' breakup.
