1984 - Give My Regards to Broad Street

Paul McCartney - Give My Regards to Broad Street


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Artist...............: Paul McCartney


Album................: Give My Regards to Broad Street


Genre................: Rock


Source...............: NMR


Year.................: 1984


Ripper...............: NMR


Codec................: LAME 3.97


Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III


Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 234kbps)


Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz


Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3


Information..........:

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Tracklisting


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1. (00:05:13) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Ballad)


2. (00:02:33) Paul McCartney - Good Day Sunshine Corridor Music


3. (00:01:43) Paul McCartney - Yesterday


4. (00:01:43) Paul McCartney - Here, There and Everywhere


5. (00:04:07) Paul McCartney - Wanderlust


6. (00:04:51) Paul McCartney - Ballrooom Dancing


7. (00:05:27) Paul McCartney - Silly Love Songs,Reprise


8. (00:03:29) Paul McCartney - Not Such A Bad Boy


9. (00:03:25) Paul McCartney - So Bad


10. (00:04:12) Paul McCartney - No Values No More Lonely Nights (Ballad Reprise)


11. (00:02:13) Paul McCartney - For No One


12. (00:09:12) Paul McCartney - Eleanor Rigby Eleanor's Dream


13. (00:03:57) Paul McCartney - The Long And Winding Road


14. (00:05:07) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version)


15. (00:04:08) Paul McCartney - Goodnight Princess


16. (00:08:11) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Extended Version)


17. (00:04:21) Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Special Dance Mix)

Playing Time.........: 01:13:53


Total Size...........: 126.13 MB

NFO generated on.....: 7/27/2008 9:37:14 PM




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Give My Regards to Broad Street is the name of a film and soundtrack album,


masterminded by Paul McCartney. They were both were released in 1984,


following the success of McCartney's previous albums Tug of War and Pipes


of Peace. The film of Broad Street proved to be a financial disaster, but the


soundtrack album sold well. The title is a pun on George M. Cohan's classic


show tune "Give My Regards to Broadway", making reference to London's


Broad Street railway station, which closed in 1986.

Filming and recording of Broad Street began in November 1982, after Pipes of


Peace's completion. Production on the album and film continued until July the


following year. In the interim, Pipes of Peace and its singles were released,


and the film project was thus scheduled for an Autumn 1984 release once an


appropriate amount of time had passed.

Preceded by "No More Lonely Nights (Ballad)", a worldwide top 10 hit


featuring guitar work by David Gilmour, Give My Regards to Broad Street


entered the UK charts at #1 while going gold with a #21 peak in the United


States (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 remained until 2007) with his Columbia output


reverting back to his new - and original - label in the US.

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


classics of The Beatles and Wings: "Good Day Sunshine", "Yesterday", "Here,


There and Everywhere", "Silly Love Songs" (the only Wings song included),


"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). There were also interpretations of songs from McCartney's more


recent albums; "Ballroom Dancing" and "Wanderlust" from Tug Of War and


"So Bad" from Pipes Of Peace. 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 extension 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 cassette and the later CD edition preserved the tracks' full lengths, while


the CD went one further by including a bonus 1940's-styled piece called


"Goodnight Princess".


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