Sir Paul McCartney is celebrating the 2025 holiday season by giving his perennial favorite, “Wonderful Christmastime,” the Vevo Footnotes treatment. Originally recorded during the ‘McCartney II’ sessions and released in 1979 as his first solo single in eight years, the track has evolved from a synth-heavy experiment into a global holiday standard. In this new digital edition, McCartney provides a “Pop-Up Video” style experience, sharing intimate reflections on the song’s Liverpool roots and debunking long-standing fan theories about its meaning. From joking about being the “head wizard of a Liverpool coven” to recalling the making of the music video with director Russell Mulcahy (who would later helm ‘Highlander’), the feature offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the craftsmanship behind the “simply having a wonderful Christmastime” refrain. For fans and skeptics alike, this 2025 retrospective establishes the track’s enduring legacy as an essential piece of the McCartney canon that continues to soundtrack the winter solstice.