Paul, John and Broad Street

Paul McCartney's Give my Regards to Broad Street opened in New York City (and in 319 cinemas across the USA) on 26 October 1984, following the most intense publicity campaign that the McCartneys and 20th-Century Fox could mount. Apart from a wave of magazine interviews with Linda and Paul, a ne...

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Published in:Popular music 1987-10, Vol.6 (3), p.327-338
Main Author: Sullivan, Henry W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Film music
Lacanian other
Lacanian philosophy
Movies
Music composition
Musical aesthetics
Rock music
Screenplays
Treaties
Unconscious mind
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Summary:Paul McCartney's Give my Regards to Broad Street opened in New York City (and in 319 cinemas across the USA) on 26 October 1984, following the most intense publicity campaign that the McCartneys and 20th-Century Fox could mount. Apart from a wave of magazine interviews with Linda and Paul, a new video, No More Lonely Nights gave a cute synopsis, and the song itself was released as a single; a soundtrack album was produced and McCartney's own company, MPL Communications, put out a songbook including music and pictures from the film plus a forty-eight page screenplay (McCartney 1984). Despite all this, and an $8,000,000 investment by Fox the movie quickly sank like a stone and was withdrawn from distribution after a couple of weeks. Most people have never seen Give my Regards to Broad Street.
ISSN:0261-1430
1474-0095
DOI:10.1017/S026114300000235X