I've never seen Give My Regards to Broad Street, but from what I've read, its pretty awful. Apparently, it was Paul McCartney's ego run amok, thinking he could replicate the success of "A Hard Day's Night" with another movie about a "day in the life" of…Paul McCartney. The movie was a huge waste of money, and critics hated it, however its soundtrack, which contained many redone Beatle songs, and Ringo, was #1 in the UK. Anyway, the musical clips are pretty interesting, and today I'm gonna post his in studio performance of Eleanor Rigby. Originally from Revolver, Eleanor Rigby was one of Paul's undisputed masterpieces. I personally think its one of the greatest pop songs ever written in E minor. The work though, doesn't entirely belong to Paul. George wrote the "all the lonely people, where do they all come from" part, and John claims to have come up with half the lyrics which Paul insists isn't true. Ringo wrote the line "writing the words of a sermon that no one will here," and old John Lennon pal Pete Shotton had Paul change Father McCartney to Father McKenzie. It's a great Beatle song, and its great to see it performed in any format, so its presence in Paul's stupid movie is still incredibly interesting and worth seeing. Give it a spin.
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