BEATLES MAGAZINE: FINAL ‘YOU GAVE ME THE ANSWER’ Q&A OF 2025

Sunday, 21 December 2025

FINAL ‘YOU GAVE ME THE ANSWER’ Q&A OF 2025

PaulMcCartney.com asks: What has been your professional highlight of 2025?

Paul: The great thing is there’s so much suddenly happening. It’s like a log jam, loads of things have just come in. The Wings book and the Wings record, but also the High in the Clouds animation that is finally getting made. The (Got Back) tour was spectacular: the audiences were so warm and receptive. The one or two shows that we did like the Bowery and Santa Barbara and Nashville – where we didn’t allow phones – were really cool, because it’s a completely different type of show. People aren’t just holding up phones, so you really see the whites of their eyes. It’s lovely!

This idea of everything coming home to roost, all these projects I’ve done over the years, it’s very exciting. But yeah, if I had to pick one I think the tour was probably the highlight of the year for me – it was so successful and enjoyable for everyone involved.

Neil asks: Do you have any music or TV recommendations from 2025?

Paul: I’m just finishing Task, have you seen Task? It’s pretty good. I’m not really one for a series, usually. Nancy is, Nancy has seen everything! And it’s how people talk these days: ‘Have you seen that?’ ‘Yeah, I’ve seen everything!’ So I don’t watch that much but I like Task, and Landman. Those are good.

PaulMcCartney.com: On a similar note, what music have you been getting into? What was on your Spotify Wrapped?

Paul: For me, what I like about Spotify Wrapped is doing the ‘wrap up’ video message for all the listeners. It’s nice to do, getting an opportunity to thank people. You always want to after a show – all these thousands of people going home, I want to know what they thought and I want to talk to them about it, and I can’t! So it’s a nice idea to thank them on Spotify.

Personally I’ve been listening to all sorts. At the beginning of the tour I listened to a lot of South American stuff, like Sérgio Mendes Radio, and now I’m listening to African music. Yeah, man!

Janet asks: What’s at the top of your Christmas list this year?

Paul: Thanks for asking, Janet! Well, Nancy says she loves buying me clothes. She doesn’t really love buying herself clothes, but she loves buying me clothes, so all my cool clothes are from her. If people compliment me I have to say, ‘Nancy got it for me’ and if I don’t say it, she will! I say, ‘Nancy, stop telling everyone you buy my clothes!’ But yeah, she buys me some nice stuff.

I like giving gifts more than receiving. With Nancy I like buying her a nice piece of jewellery, but I need to know who she likes, because it changes and she always likes a different, modern designer.

Alex asks: Have you ever been in a school Nativity? Or do you remember going to your kids’ ones?

Paul: No, I was never in one! The only thing I got in was when the school did a production of Saint Joan, the play by George Bernard Shaw. I was one of what they called The Assessors, which is like the crowd, basically. The monks! When they are working out if they are going to burn Joan at the stake, we’d all jeer and so on. But that’s the closest I came to fame at school!

The best story I have about a nativity is from the early days of The Beatles, when John would come and see me and we’d work together at Forthlin Road in Liverpool. He would walk home after, late at night, and one day he said to me, ‘God, those people on the corner of Booker Avenue are crazy!’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘Well what time did I leave you, midnight? I was walking past and they were out on their porch playing cards!’. I couldn’t believe it so went out to look… It was a nativity scene. He didn’t have his glasses on!

Sam asks: What are you most looking forward to in 2026?

Paul: My new album! We’re just starting to think about how to put that together. I’m also really looking forward to Morgan Neville’s film, Man on the Run, and all the activity that comes along with that.

High in the Clouds, the animated film, is being made and we’ve finished up all the recordings of the vocalists in the last couple of days. In animation you have to do the dialogue and songs first so they can draw to it, it doesn’t work the other way round. We’re well on the way with that which is getting exciting.

There’s a lot of great stuff coming up!

Briony asks: What is your New Year’s resolution?

Paul: To be a good boy! Haha. I normally don’t have one, but what comes to mind is things like ‘to eat sensibly’. That’s always a good one.

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