Paul McCartney & Wings - Rockshow

Versatility personified from the greatest rock voice in history!

What a show!, what a performance, the restoration, the look, the color, the light, and the sound, all perfectly well done, McCartney and Denny Laine at it's best, Jimmy McCulloch in his electrifying guitar, Linda with her always pleasant present on the stage, the sax and trumpet boys were having fun, and last but not least Joe English in the drum, Rockshow is a beautiful looking concert film, and it's definitely a real Rockshow folks!

This is the best recorded tour of Paul McCartney, showing the power of his solid band Wings. Linda reaches beautiful vocal harmonies on "Listen To What The Man Said" and Paul distills love and careness for her in the masterpiece "Maybe I´m Amazed".

The sound quality of the video is not the best; well, it was 1976 and the record machines for live performances weren´t as good as the studio ones, but It´s not the hi-fi sound that kicks here, is the talented Paul and his beloved wife.

It´s pretty hard to get this picture, so I recommend you to buy the "Wings Over America" CD at www.amazon.com. It has all the movie songs, plus some surprises.

To my knowledge, Wings Over the World and Rockshow are not the same thing (as one comment seems to state). Both are based on Wings' 1976 world tour. But,to my knowledge, Rockshow is a concert film and was released in theaters (at least it played occasionally in theaters over the years). Wings Over the World was a TV special that aired in 1979 - I remember watching it. I recall it being more of a look at 'life on the road' side of the tour. All apologies if I stand corrected.

I've had this movie on a VHS tape that I burned from a laser disk in the early 1980s. This is the closest you are going to get to seeing the Wings Over America Tour in 1976 - The sound surpasses almost all 1970s concert films. I have the digitally remastered WOA CD and it sounds like it was recorded yesterday - please release this film in a digitally remastered DVD! The direction is sadly...lacking (which is true of many 70s concert films).

This is what Paul McCartney wanted to do with the Beatles at the end - become a touring performing band.

This movie shows that dream realized nicely.