Give My Regards to Broad Street


Give My Regards to Broad Street is the fifth solo studio album by Paul McCartney, as well as the soundtrack album to his 1984 film of the same name. The album reached number 1 on the UK chart. The lead single, "No More Lonely Nights", was BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominated. It was also to be his final album to be released under Columbia Records, which had been his US label for over five years.

Songs

The majority of the album is a retrospective – which is sequenced in the order of the songs' appearance in the film – features re-interpretations of many of Paul McCartney's past classics of the Beatles and Wings: "Good Day Sunshine", "Yesterday", "Here, There and Everywhere", "Silly Love Songs", "For No One", "Eleanor Rigby" and "The Long and Winding Road". 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", 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 album running time was so long that its vinyl release had edited versions of the songs. The cassette and the later CD edition preserved the tracks' full lengths, while the CD went one further by including a bonus 1940s-styled piece called "Goodnight Princess". A notable switch from past album song credits is the crediting of song writing to 'McCartney-Lennon' as opposed to the usual 'Lennon-McCartney' on all other albums.
The Beatles cover-versions are dedicated to Paul McCartney's friend John Lennon, who was killed 4 years before the soundtrack was released.

Release and charts

Preceded by "No More Lonely Nights ", a worldwide Top 10 hit featuring guitar work by David Gilmour, Give My Regards to Broad Street entered the UK charts at number 1 and was certified platinum, while also going gold with a number 21 peak in the United States. It would also mark the end of McCartney's relatively 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 with his Columbia output reverting to his new – and original – label in the US, Capitol Records.
Simultaneously with the film's premiere in November, McCartney's Rupert Bear recording, "We All Stand Together", started back in 1980 and credited to 'Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus', was released and became a hit single in the UK, reaching number 3. The accompanying animated film was shown in cinemas immediately preceding the main feature that was Give My Regards to Broad Street.
The soundtrack's original release was on Columbia Records in 1984 in North America. It was remastered in 1993 and reissued on CD as part of 'The Paul McCartney Collection' series with two extended dance mixes of "No More Lonely Nights " as bonus tracks.

Track listing

All songs by Paul McCartney, except where noted.
CD TrackCassette TrackLP TrackTitleCD TimeLP TimeNotes
1A1A1"No More Lonely Nights "5:134:42Features David Gilmour on lead guitar
2A2A2"Good Day Sunshine"2:331:49 Original version on the Beatles album Revolver
2A3A3"Corridor Music"2:330:19
3A4A4"Yesterday"1:431:43 Original version on the Beatles album Help!
4A5A5"Here, There and Everywhere"1:431:45 Original version on the Beatles album Revolver
5A6A6"Wanderlust"4:072:48Original version on solo album Tug of War
6A7A7"Ballroom Dancing"4:514:35Features John Paul Jones on bass guitar. Original version on solo album Tug of War
7A8A8"Silly Love Songs"5:274:31Original version on Wings album Wings at the Speed of Sound
7A9B1"Silly Love Songs "5:270:36
8A10B2"Not Such a Bad Boy"3:293:19
9B1–"So Bad"3:25–Original version on solo album Pipes of Peace
10B2B3"No Values"4:124:13"No More Lonely Nights " is incorrectly listed as being segued with "No Values" on the 1993 CD remaster
11B3B4"No More Lonely Nights "2:120:13"No More Lonely Nights " is incorrectly listed as being segued with "No Values" on the 1993 CD remaster
11B4B5"For No One"2:121:58 Original version on the Beatles album Revolver
12B5B6"Eleanor Rigby"9:102:07 Original version on the Beatles album Revolver
12B5B7"Eleanor's Dream"9:101:01
13B6B8"The Long and Winding Road"3:573:47 Original version on the Beatles album Let It Be
14B7B9"No More Lonely Nights "5:034:26
15––"Goodnight Princess"3:58–Original 1984 Columbia CD release lists this track as "Goodnight Lonely Princess"

1993 bonus tracks
CD TrackCassette TrackLP TrackTitleCD TimeLP TimeNotes
16––"No More Lonely Nights "8:11–"No More Lonely Nights " incorrectly listed as 6:56 in CD booklet and on the CD label.
"No More Lonely Nights " incorrectly listed as "No More Lonely Nights "
17––"No More Lonely Nights "4:21–"No More Lonely Nights " incorrectly listed as 6:56 in CD booklet and on the CD label.
"No More Lonely Nights " incorrectly listed as "No More Lonely Nights "

LP version

Due to the length of the recording, the 1984 LP omits "So Bad" and "Goodnight Princess", edits out about six minutes of "Eleanor's Dream", and also sections of "Good Day Sunshine", "Wanderlust" and "No More Lonely Nights ".
On the back of the LP cover, a remark alerts the listener:
Track lengths on album notes do not include spoken sections between songs and so do not match CD timings. On the list above, these sections are included at the beginning of each track, as on the 1984 release, while on the remastered 1993 CD they are mostly included at the end of the tracks.

Personnel

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales