Paul really loved what he is doing....he loved playing in concerts but he also does not mind playing in small ones. He simply loves music and he seemed to be the driving force anong the Beatles ..wonderful human being.
I think it was that kind of thing that was missing from the movie. Some improvisation and different interpretation. Plus, to be honest, for a movie, not every song should have been full-length. Great for us Macca fans, but not the general populace.
Another gift from someone's personal archives. Praise God for the people who preserve these treasures - and RU-vid, for providing the platform to bring them all together.
The sad eyes Paul has after he says he would like to write with John Lennon again "but he's not here" coupled with the guitar note playing underneath is just such an emotional combination. Like just an overall sad moment thinking about his best friend
So it appears I have been stood up on a first date on valentines day after making a huge (and amazing) dinner... I'm not gonna lie, it hurts. Although this is a huge bummer and I should be hating life, I'm not. I have a cat on my lap, which I love, and I found this. This movie reminds me of my childhood and my father who passed when I was young. I am so happy I found this, it really turned my night around... Thank you!
Wow! Not nice! But definitely agree with you, Paul is the best escapism for life - ever!!!! He and his mates certainly did it for my generation in the '60s. Just wish there were 1000's of Paul types out there, for us females who deserve not much less in our lives
When Paul started playing 'For No One' I just had to grab my Epiphone acoustic (wish it was the 64' Texan like Paul's) and learn it up. Five minutes and seven chords later, voila, that's definitely going in the mellow part of my bands set-list. Luckily our keyboard player sings like a young Paul so this should sound really awesome. Thanks Paul, you are such an awesome all around great musician. You've probably forgotten more musical knowledge than I'll ever be able to learn. Am I jealous? No! Envious? Hell yes! George Martin too, what a genius and a nice man.
This was such an interesting and well done doc. I have more admiration for Paul after watching. Some great clips of him singing as well, in which his voice was just as good as when originally sung.
Paul casually singing For No One, just by himself acoustically, not having ever performed it since the recording, proves how talented he just is, because this version is just as iconic as the recorded one from decades before.
"Pop music - a 3 minute folk song" - a neat definition, from Paul. That definition adds value to the whole modern music era for me. Especially as l felt my love for it in the early years was like a guilty pleasure
Martin was an indredible producer with his classical training, a fairly deep technical background as well. Paul's reference to his video with the suggestions he made about cellos was quite interesting when Martin told him that the upper range was too much for the instrument.
George Martin-- what a brilliant, interesting, creative person. He was the perfect person in the right place at the right time for the Beatles. Imagine if ALL artists could enjoy that kind of simpatico meeting-of-minds.
McCartney also speaks highly of George Martin and has even said he was like a second father. George Martin was an amazing producer. He taught Paul, The Beatles and so many other musicians how to make their music better and always added great ideas to simple songs which turned them into masterpieces.
It would nice if the movie was remastered for Blu ray DVD with bonus features such as unseen scenes or music not in the original film.Also an expanded version of the soundtrack album by Giles Martin would be good.Also it would be a treat to see it on British TV.
Of all the videos I have seen of Paul McCartney, I can’t even count, I have never seen Or heard him do a solo on his bass guitar. This is the first so thank you
Later Paul knows by now that For no one was much better song than any 84 tunes but its ok he never got stuck no matter what. Thank you Paul for been here now.
Then again Sir Paul likes to experiment with different results over the years.The solo career has been a bit of a hotch potch at times.There have also been moments of genius.I would like to see a comprehensive and definitive compilation of his best 80s material in a musical and visual form obviously including Broad Street.
Just as Magical Mystery Your as a film is not great, some of the sequences are incredible. Same with Broadstreet; it was awful as a "film", but as a series of videos, musical performances...it's quite good. The "Yesterday/Here, There and Everywhere/Wanderlust" medley is just beautiful. I like that version of "Wanderlust" in Broadstreet better than the Tug Of War version.
I went to see Broadstreet the week it opened in 1984 and the theater was 90% EMPTY. I'm not quite sure why people didn;t appreciate the mans music back then as thyey do today
I saw it by myself opening week in an completely empty theatre. I was in grade school and obsessed with the Beatles (and solo 80s Paul) and I remember being mocked for it .. it wasn’t until a few years later until the Beatles became cool again (and have remained ever since).
Maybe it was too close to John's death? :( Have read that there was a lot of talk about John being the only talent in the band and particularly there was an anti-McCartney campaign going on...
@@PenguinBooks365 I still don;t knoq but thew Press/media gave it only 1 star so that might have turned offf average movie -goers. The only thing I can say is-PENN AND TGELLER sat in the row behind me to see the movie. Guess the are true fans lol
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Oh wow! What an anecdote haha thank you for sharing! I avoided watching the film for years. Only saw mins here and there during the course of my life. Until this year... because of the pandemic I decided to check it out. I had the lowest expectations so in the end it suprised me. In a good way. Watched it about 5 times during the lockdown days xD
Great!Thx for posting..Glad that there is a vid with this film-rehearsals!The video-title should be somehow related to the film "Give my regards to Broadstreet"(rehearsals,making of or similar) 20:50 ff. John Paul Jones in the back .Hearing his bass-track :-)
At First it sounds like Paul's been playing Super Mario Bros. when he starts working on the arrangement with George. However Super Mario Bros. came out a year after this special. Particularly the I Underground BGM.
As a movie a bit of editing and a better storyline might have made it a classic.The music is the best thing about the film with some nice scenes with Ringo and George Martin.
One of the few things that do annoy me about Paul is how he buries a lot of feelings, like when he’s talking about John he just says “what can you do?”.
Some of the dubs of Broad Street movie are like a semi-tone higher than the record and officially released film. I've seen TV versions like that and the clips here in the show are the same. Macca sounds chipmunky on several songs...weird. I wouldn't think it was intentional.
Yes Eleanor Rigby was in F minor instead of E minor, maybe it's where the videotape speed has been changed where copies are made on different machines.
in retrospect, the correct solution to the problem of the eleanor rigby dream sequence being 8 minutes longer than expected would probably have been to cut 8 minutes out of the film rather than write 8 extra minutes of orchestral meanderings...
@@aidanhickey9845 In my opinion, yes. The Edge also was/is a major influence in contemporary Christian rock - dotted eighth delay, ambient, soundscapes, etc. In my opinion, he and Andy Summers of the Police influenced many with their use of emerging effects.
The concept of this movie was spot-on, but it was, unfortunately, a cheesy flop. But man-oh-man, as bad as the movie was, the music and related music scenes were a joy. David Gilmore's guitar solo on No More Lonely Nights is totally kick-ass!
Thank god thay have stopped dear animals going on long journeys across the channel to be killed,so it stopped for good yesterday, i hope Paul reads my comment xxxx
First Chance that incidental music? not quite correct. He composed the music for the film in the family way 1966. You can tell from this interview that George Martin really was a good sounding board for the Beatles
Truth of the matter is George Martin did 95% of the "Family Way" scoring. He had to hound Paul for snippets of original material which he then expanded and built on.
I think I might be the only one who found us a little bit depressing. The banality of the songwriting process, and the film making. Are used to be a tape op at Air Studios btw.