James Paul McCartney (TV programme)

James Paul McCartney
The opening title used for the special
Developed byATV
Directed byDwight Hemion
Starring
Composers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersGary Smith, Dwight Hemion
ProducerGary Smith (ATV)
Running time50 mins approx.
Production companyATV
Original release
Network
Release16 April 1973 (1973-04-16)
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James Paul McCartney is the title of a 1973 television special produced by ATV, starring English musician Paul McCartney and his then-current rock group, Wings. It was first broadcast on 16 April 1973 in the United States on the ABC network, and later broadcast in the United Kingdom on 10 May 1973. It was issued on DVD for the first time as part of the super-deluxe Red Rose Speedway box set in December 2018.

Background

Paul McCartney agreed to star in a television special for the British ATV company to settle his two-year legal dispute with Sir Lew Grade.[1][2] As the owner of the network and its music publishing division, and, by extension, the Beatles' Northern Songs catalogue,[3] Grade had objected to McCartney crediting his wife Linda as his co-writer since 1971, citing her lack of professional experience as a songwriter and musician.[4][5] McCartney's commitment to the television project allowed him to retain the second composer's publishing royalties,[1] which would otherwise have been assigned to Grade's company.[2][6]

James Paul McCartney was McCartney's first television special since the Beatles' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour,[7] and was intended to showcase his versatility as an artist and entertainer.[1][8] Many segments featured his band, Wings, while in others McCartney performed solo.[9] ATV hired Gary Smith as the producer and Dwight Hemion as the director, although McCartney was assured full creative control over the programme's content.[10] After recently completing their second album, Red Rose Speedway, Wings travelled to Marrakesh in early February 1973 to plan and rehearse for the show.[11][12]

Programme content

Left-over tracks

McCartney performed "Mama's Little Girl", "Hey Diddle", "Long Haired Lady", and "Yesterday", among others, as part of the acoustic medley (Part 2), though they were not edited into any version of the broadcast. The complete recording of this medley appeared since on unofficial "bootleg" releases, along with alternate takes of the intro for "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance".

Additional tracks performed during the "Wings in Concert" segment (Part 10) included "When the Night", "Wild Life", "Go Now" and "The Long and Winding Road", which was the first time McCartney performed this song in front of a live audience ever.

Reception

Critical reception to the programme was highly unfavourable.[10][13][14] According to authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter, the show "was roundly panned by every critic with a pulse, and was not a stunning success in the ratings either".[10] Melody Maker stated: "McCartney has always had an eye and ear for full-blown romanticism, and nothing wrong with that, but here he too often lets it get out of hand and it becomes over-blown and silly."[15] The New York Times' reviewer described it as "a series of disconnected routines strung together with commercials for Chevrolet cars", while The Washington Post criticised the amount of screen time allocated to Linda McCartney, saying that "her previous careers ... certainly don't qualify her to perform in public."[16]

Writing for Rolling Stone, Lenny Kaye found McCartney "remote and distant from the camera" and added: "if the consequent production did nothing to heal McCartney's ongoing image problem, it certainly didn't help his musical offerings, which came off as forgettably ordinary and certainly disappointing."[17] Referring to the former Beatle's return to television, Alan Coren of The Times wrote: "[James Paul McCartney] was not the sort of programme you make a come-back with. It was the sort of programme you make a come-back after."[18]

Among more recent critiques, Peter Doggett describes the special as "insipid" and "unrecognisable as the work of the man who had conceived Magical Mystery Tour".[19] Robert Rodriguez writes that, in its attempts to present McCartney as all-round entertainer, the show embarrassed and alienated his rock audience, and that even the in-concert segment was lacklustre. Rodriguez concludes: "the band must surely have been conscious of their shortcomings alongside virtually any other recording act of the day. When Henry McCullough buries his head in his hands during the [McCartney] solo finale of 'Yesterday,' one feels his pain."[20] Tom Doyle contends that the show "wasn't all bad" but considers the "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" segment and the Chelsea Reach pub scene to have been particularly ill-advised for McCartney's image at the time.[21]

Home media

The special was never released on VHS.[22]

In 2018, a DVD remaster was released as part of the "Paul McCartney Archive" deluxe reissue of Red Rose Speedway.[23] This new edit doesn't contain "Bluebird" as part of the acoustic medley (Part 2), alike original UK broadcast. However, unlike the UK broadcast, the last song of the "Wings in Concert" segment (Part 10) is "Long Tall Sally", as the US/Japanese broadcast, while "Hi, Hi, Hi" is missing.

References

  1. ^ a b c Woffinden 1981, p. 67.
  2. ^ a b Sounes 2010, pp. 303–04.
  3. ^ Sounes 2010, p. 303.
  4. ^ Schaffner 1978, p. 151.
  5. ^ Doggett 2011, pp. 167–68.
  6. ^ Doggett 2011, pp. 168, 194–95.
  7. ^ Doyle 2013, pp. 78–79.
  8. ^ Schaffner 1978, p. 156.
  9. ^ Badman 2001, pp. 96–97.
  10. ^ a b c Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 180.
  11. ^ Badman 2001, p. 90.
  12. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 179.
  13. ^ Frontani 2009, p. 166.
  14. ^ Doyle 2013, p. 81.
  15. ^ Badman 2001, p. 97.
  16. ^ Frontani 2009, pp. 166, 269.
  17. ^ Kaye, Lenny (5 July 1973). "Review of Red Rose Speedway". Rolling Stone. p. 68. Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  18. ^ Frontani 2009, p. 269.
  19. ^ Doggett 2011, p. 208.
  20. ^ Rodriguez 2010, pp. 329–30.
  21. ^ Doyle 2013, pp. 79–80.
  22. ^ "James Paul McCartney 1973 TV Special".
  23. ^ "Paul announces reissues of 'Wild Life' and 'Red Rose Speedway' + 'Wings 1971-73'". 8 October 2018.

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