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IF THESE WALLS COULD SING DISNEY+ 7/10

A RENOWNED photographer in her own right, Mary McCartney has rounded up some top-drawer names – David Gilmour, Giles Martin, Roger Waters, Nile Rodgers, Cliff Richard – for this engaging documentary about the world’s most famous recording studio.

The story starts in 1931 when EMI, then trading as the Gramophone Company, bought a large Georgian townhouse in St John’s Wood at auction – “a detached residence of nine bedrooms, five reception rooms, servants’ quarter and a large gardencourt nascent rock’n’rollers.

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