„sounding like an aging rocker desperately trying to keep up with the time“ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Paul McCartney: Pipes of Peace. Review. allmusic.com.
„McCartney’s love boat all but capsizes in the waves of almost opiated good feeling that swell over it from all sides.“ Vgl. Parke Puterbaugh: Paul McCartney. Pipes of Peace. In: Rolling Stone, 19. Januar 1984 (online).
Parke Puterbaugh: Paul McCartney. Pipes of Peace. In: Rolling Stone, 19. Januar 1984 (online).