James Paul McCartney (TV special) 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." 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." 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
Paul Is Live Linda McCartney. Excerpted from his shows in Australia, as well as from various cities in the United States, "Paul Is Live" followed the 1989–90 Paul McCartney World Tour/"Tripping the Live Fantastic" extravaganza by only three years, confounding critics and fans as to its appearance, and in some cases its necessity (although the only song it has in common with "Tripping The Live Fantastic" is "Live And Let Die"). As a result, "Paul Is Live" became McCartney's lowest-selling live set of his career, peaking at number 34 in the UK and a lowly number 78 in the US. A concert film