Tagline:
"When the music stops, the mystery begins."
Plot:
Paul McCartney is a bored, pampered, middle-aged rock star. While stuck in traffic one day, he has an amazing daydream in which he's a bored, pampered, middle-aged rock star wearing a cool Hawaiian shirt. The plot kicks in when, in a crazy development, he loses track of some important recordings.
Key scenes:
After a boardroom meeting, McCartney stops by a recording studio to cut some tracks. The film devotes a lot of time to this, presumably to immortalize the experience of watching McCartney work during the period of white-hot creativity between his 1983 album Pipes Of Peace and its 1986 follow-up, Press To Play. Ringo Starr is also on hand, and a subplot highlights his irrepressible nature as he engages in the must-be-seen-to-be-believed act of granting a reporter an interview. Meanwhile, McCartney looks mildly concerned about the loss of his recordings, but he trudges on, filming two music videos (including one in which he seems to be playing a gay albino alien), stopping by a warehouse to cut more tracks, and still finding time to visit the BBC and play some more. At one point, as if bored by his own fantasy, he zones out of his daydream to imagine himself trudging through a Victorian landscape to a Muzak-ready arrangement of "Eleanor Rigby."
Can easily be distinguished by:
Give My Regards To Broad Street plays a bit like A Hard Day's Night, only in color and without John, George, wit, passion, pleasure, craft, or, apart from a few Beatles reprises, memorable songs.
Sign that it was made in 1984: The halfhearted bounce of Linda McCartney's mullet as she accompanies her husband on keyboards.
Timeless message:
If you have a valuable recording, you should keep track of it, because it might get lost, and then you'd have to look for it.
Memorable quotes:
"Should we try 'Not Such A Bad Boy'?" Ringo: "Do we have to?" Paul: "Yeah."
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