Give my regards to Broad Street!

Has anyone seen Give my regards to Broad Street??? It was made after the Beatles brook up and it only has Ringo and Paul in it and Linda is in there too!!!! I think its a pretty cool movie! Lots of songs from Beatles and Wings! I actually got better at Yesterday on me violin by watching Paul sing it on that movie! I think I would have to give this movie a B since well I had to read the back of the movie box just to see what it was about! After I watched the movie. But other then that I loved the movie and I loved Paul's Daydreams they were Funny and some scary and some That I thought that were kinda weird too!

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[PaulisMine]

Yep, this was Paul's project and came out in the mid-80's. I liked this movie too, but I think you have to be a pretty die-hard Paul fan to really like it (and you are, and so am I so that is what matters, right?). Ringo's wife Barbara is also in the movie.
I really enjoyed the part where he went to talk to his father, and the part of him standing against the building playing the uke and singing "Yesterday". I should watch this thing again! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Drumhead15]

That is a crazy show! I like it though. My friend loves the part in the beginning where he drives past the elderly ladies. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/grin.gif Lol.

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[HeyBeatle]

It took me awhile to get into it at first, but by the end of the movie I liked it. It isn't one of my favorites, but it did serve to be the first time I heard "Ballroom Dancing" and maybe I'm just a wee bit weird, but I really enjoy that song.

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[bearkat77]

The movie is kinda lame in spots but the music is really good.

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[jtal909]

I agree, Bearkat.
Like we had mentioned before, the movie is a snooze but the music is awesome (except Coming Up- I can't stand that song. Even live it was the only one that I didn't enjoy).

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[Rellevart]

In a way it reminds me of "Magical Mystery Tour" - the musical bits are great, but the plot, well....WHAT plot? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

I love "Not Such a Bad Boy" and "No More Lonely Nights" - and for some reason "No Values" cracks me up.

And HeyBeatle - you may be a wee bit odd (http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif), but not for liking "Ballroom Dancing"! That's a great scene! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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[HMVNipper]

I think this movie is a harmless piece of fluff -- and certainly, if you like looking at Paul (as most of us here DO), you'll enjoy it! Not much of a plot, true, but that's okay for most Beatles fans!

Actually, I think the version of "The Long And Winding Road" from Broad Street is one of the best ones I've ever heard...and I really like "No More Lonely Nights."

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yes. silly eighties film.
paul shows how egotist he can be.
no more lonely night is a wonderful song, though.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By jtal909:
the music is awesome (except Coming Up- I can't stand that song. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

that makes two of us.

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[Legs]

Some of the new songs or o.k. No More Lonely Nigths is a good song, but only the ballad version. Not fond of the new versions of Beatles and Wings songs. The movie is fine if you haven't got anything else to do.

[beatlegirl9977]

Yeah, it's definitely a movie you have to be in a certain mood to watch. Not that you really have to twist my arm to watch Paul for two hours or anything. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/crosseyed2.gif I do like "No More Lonely Nights," though. I think I like listening to the soundtrack CD more than watching the movie, actually.

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[AriesGirl78]

Its a pretty interesting film for me. The music's good, the plot's a little silly, but I did like the part where he is walking through Victorian England, to an instrumental Eleanor Rigby.

Of all the songs, I really like Ballroom Dancing, Wanderlust, No more Lonely Nights, and No Values.



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[MaccaGirl]

Ok, yes, sad, but I've actually studied and analysed that video. If you look at it, it really gives a subconsious window into how Paul feels.
It seems to me like it shows his biggest fears - being alone (when all the other friends die on the waterfalls) and more specifically, being alone because of something he did or didn't do. (It appears that he is responsible for the boat leaving, because he hired Harry.)
The Linda coming back as a ghost on a horse shows that he couldn't stand being away from Linda. (She was obviously his support system and at the time, his recent albums hadn't done all that good, I can see him being a little depressed.)
He also can't be alone from his fans, he needs to be accepted, the fact that the Paul in the movie goes to interviews and everything, has such a busy timeline shows that he feels he has to be out there all the time to still have fans.
Finally, the fact that he spends most of the time looking for the tapes seems to me like he's very insecure about people going behind his back and stealing things from him, call it paranoia maybe.

Anyway, yeah, that's why I think it's a good movie, the plot kinda stinks, but oh well. If not for that, I would probably only watch the Victorian scene and then the very end kinda of when he's talking on the phone to Lin, that's pretty cute.

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jesus! that's what i call analyzing a movie!
did paul write the screenplay, or the story?


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[HMVNipper]

Apparently, yes, the writing credit is Paul's.

Here's the info about it from the Internet Movie Database:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087337

There are some interesting comments by viewers, too.

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[FiendishThingie]

I have an interview where Paul said he used to work on the script on his drive home from the office (since it's quite a drive).

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"Music always had a transcendental quality inasmuch as it reaches parts of you that you don't expect it to reach. And it can touch you in a way that you can't express. You can think that it hasn't reached you and years later you'll find it coming out." George Harrison

hehe...paul always likes to tell the origin of his songs and writings like they were some kind of epiphany in history.
i remember in the anthology video when he tells us how he wrote yesterday.
my friends and i were watching and we were like: oh, well, what a happening, huh?


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[beatlebangs1964]

Paul is a gifted story teller and I find his accounts very interesting. That is an added treat and bonus.

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[beatlebangs1964]

Macca Girl raised some good points. The part where Linda appears in ghost form on a horse seems eerily prescient; the fear Paul expresses at losing his bandmates is also eerily prescient.

In watching that today, one gets a bittersweet feeling; Paul's fears, sadly have been realized in recent years now that George and Linda have died. I love the music and the Beatle references in the movie; although I never thought Paul was an actor, I loved the show and I admit, enjoying the music and watching Paul's "artistic subconscious" added to the general interest.

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