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Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney (Complete Music Review)

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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 that I'm a Beatles fan and thus appr