Give My Regards to Broad Street

The Album

Preceeded by "No More Lonely Nights (Ballad)", a worldwide Top 10 smash featuring blistering David Gilmour guitar work, Give My Regards to Broad Street entered the UK charts at #1, while going gold with a #21 peak in the US (selling under expectations there). It would also mark the end of McCartney's brief alliance with Columbia Records in the US, which had started with the final Wings album Back to the Egg in 1979. McCartney would re-sign with EMI worldwide (where he remains) with his Columbia output reverting back to his new - and original - label in the US.

Related Topics:
David Gilmour - Columbia Records - Wings - Back to the Egg - 1979 - EMI

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The majority of the album - which is sequenced in the order of the songs' appearance in the film - features re-interpretations of many of his past Beatles and Wings classics: "Good Day Sunshine", "Yesterday", "Here, There And Everywhere", "Silly Love Songs", "For No One", "Eleanor Rigby" and "The Long And Winding Road" (without the heavy strings courtesy of Phil Spector that McCartney had so loathed in 1970). Besides "No More Lonely Nights" (also heard in a dance version), the only previously-unheard tracks were "Not Such A Bad Boy", "No Values" and a symphonic extention of "Eleanor Rigby" entitled "Eleanor's Dream". The scope of the album was so immense that when it saw release that October, its vinyl issue had specially edited versions of its songs. The simultaneously-released cassette and CD editions preserved the tracks' full lengths, while the CD went one further by including a bonus 1940's-styled piece called "Goodnight Princess".

Related Topics:
Beatles - Phil Spector - 1970 - October

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While Give My Regards to Broad Street may not rank as McCartney's most memorable project, many McCartney fans deem it to have its virtues and a worthwhile experience.

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In November, simultaneously with the film's premiere, McCartney's Rupert Bear recording, "We All Stand Together", started back in 1980, was released and became an enormous hit single in the UK, reaching #3, and was credited to "Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus".

Related Topics:
Rupert Bear - 1980

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In 1993, Give My Regards to Broad Street was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series with two extended dance mixes of "No More Lonely Nights" as bonus tracks.

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