Paul Can Still Stop Traffic
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The London Evening Standard
April 9, 1981
Nearly 20 years on from the Beatles' first hit record, Paul McCartney still manages to stop the traffic and send the audience into paroxysms of screaming when his new film Rock Show was unveiled before Lord Snowden and a host of celebrities at the Dominion Theater, Tottenham Court Road, last night.
The movie is simply a collection of concert footage film during Wings tour of America five years ago and hung around a show played by the band before a recording 67,000 people at a hall in Seattle.
Despite a lack of consistency in recent Wings albums, the film confirms yet again that Wings is one of the most exciting rock bands in the world, and it verifies McCartney's status, along with Mick Jagger and Pete Townsend, as one of the last of the '60s rock legends still functioning.
The film might have been even more exciting with a little backstage action, but it would appear to have been shot with the home video market eventually in mind, and as such, it must be destined eventually to become a number one video cassette best seller. Certainly, it catches one of the great bands of the 70s at their peak.
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