Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney (Complete Music Review)
In 1984, Paul McCartney starred in what amounts, basically, to an overlong and unremarkable music video titled Give My Regards to Broad Street , which centered upon the theft of the master tapes to Paul's newest album and the musician's resulting efforts to retrieve them. And just like The Magical Mystery Tour film a decade-plus or so earlier, Give My Regards to Broad Street failed to follow in the celluloid footsteps of Help! , A Hard Day's Night, or even Yellow Submarine. Of course, sometimes even failed films come with a soundtrack album, and Give My Regards to Broad Street lends itself well to having its spinoff record -- and of course, because it was a Paul McCartney project, the powers that be did release an album that is a mix of songs from Paul's Beatles career to his solo/Wings years. Although I didn't care much for the film (which I've almost totally forgotten), I do like this album, considering ...