Paul McCartney
Give My Regards To Broad Street

THE REVIEW

And the muse turned her back, tired, longing after twenty years for some well-deserved rest, so Paul found himself without inspiration to create the pathetic "Give My Regards To Broad Street", a banal and irritating celebration of a superstar. And we are left only with the soundtrack to remind us of this failure by Macca, who would have done better to take a vacation and recharge his batteries instead of presenting us with the horrible trio, "Pipes Of Peace", "Give My Regards..." and "Press To Play".

Fortunately, the Beatles arrive to save our Paul's reputation, as he draws heavily from "Revolver", "Good Day Sunshine", "Eleanor Rigby" which gets a makeover and is complemented by a beautiful classic-style coda from an inspired Macca, "For No One", one of Paul's most beautiful love songs, but then ruins everything with a disco version of "Silly Love Songs" that gives you chills and an arrangement for "The Long And Winding Road" worthy of the worst Spector. But thank goodness there's "Yesterday" and "Wanderlust", miraculously recovered for the last time from "Tug Of War", to underline Paul's inability to enhance his repertoire, but then there's the annoying falsetto of "So Bad" and the weary last Wings of "No Values" and "Not Such A Bad Boy", it's only rock 'n' roll, everything gets a lively and successful moment with "Ballroom Dancing", a piece celebrating dance halls, with his friend John Paul Jones on bass and plenty of punchy brass and choirs. And finally, "Goodnight Princess" and "No More Lonely Nights", with David Gilmour's guitar reminding us of better times, the solo that will come, when the muse returns to Paul.