Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years (2007)
PAL DVD5 | English | 720x576 | MPEG-2 @9800Kpbs | 4.36 GB (Total 3 DVD: 13.11 GB)
Audio #1: AC-3 @192Kpbs 2 CHs | Audio #2: PCM @1536Kpbs 2 CHs
Total Playtime: ~375 mins
Subtitles: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Portugues, Italiano, Nederlands
Genre: Rock | Release date: November 13, 2007
Former Beatle, Wings founder, and now solo superstar for almost forty years, Paul McCartney is one of the best-known and most celebrated figures in contemporary music and pop culture. This new 3-DVD set celebrates his extraordinary post-Beatles body of work with over 40 music videos of his classic songs, reaching back to 1970's, "Maybe I'm Amazed," and running through 2005's, "Fine Line." Over two hours of live concert performances, with Wings and solo, and other assorted rarities are all included. Bonus features include a Band on the Run promo film and a 2005 documentary on the making of Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.The DVD also features hits and favorites including "Heart of the Country," "Mamunia," "Ebony & Ivory," and "Say Say Say," plus rarities including the Wings promo spot for Band on the Run, the 2005 documentary, Creating Chaos at Abbey Road, and archival interviews. Disc three showcases three classic live performances: Rockshow, filmed on Wings' 1976 World Tour, new edits of Paul's seminal Unplugged of 1991 and his triumphant, now legendary, headline performance at Glastonbury in 2004. Extra features include "Let It Be" from 1985's Live Aid concert and a performance from Super Bowl XXIV. The retrospective also boasts new commentary from the venerable Sir Paul himself!Elements are all meticulously restored, and all films have been polished, re-graded and given a new lease on life in a widescreen format with remastered audio. Original recordings also remixed into 5.1 surround sound for the first time. Total running time is over 4 hours.
It's rather incredible to ponder the fact that with the release of The McCartney Years in late 2007, Paul McCartney has now been making recordings in various mediums for the better part of 40 years--and that's not even including the decade he spent as a member of the world's greatest band. And while some may quibble about certain details of the content and presentation, this three-disc set, packed with videos, concert footage, interviews, documentaries, and more, will surely satisfy the vast majority of Sir Paul's loyal subjects. The dozens of videos, occupying the first two discs and spanning the years from 1970 ("Maybe I'm Amazed," ten years before the emergence of MTV) to 2005 ("Fine Line"), can be viewed in either chronological order or as programmed by Macca himself. Ranging from straight lip-synced performances to various conceptual films, they are a decidedly mixed bag. In some cases (e.g. "London Town"), the songs are superior to the clips, while in others, the reverse is true ("Coming Up," a lightweight tune but a delightful video in which McCartney portrays everyone from Buddy Holly to Sparks keyboardist Ron Mael). Sometimes both the song and the video are terrific ("Take it Away" features Ringo Starr on drums, producer George Martin on piano, and a cameo by actor John Hurt; "Band on the Run," a creative pastiche of photos, film effects, and other media, suggests that the band in question was the Beatles, not Wings), while some fail on both counts (John Lennon might have had the likes of "C-Moon" in mind when he referred to McCartney's '70s output as "all pizza and fairytales"). Of the three concerts included on Volume Three, the best (and shortest) comes from a 1991 Unplugged show and features lovely versions of "Every Night" and "And I Love Her"; Rockshow spotlights Wings on tour in '76, and the 2004 gig in Glastonbury, England features McCartney's excellent current band (a good show, but the playlist isn't nearly as adventurous as, say, 2005's Live in Red Square). Extras include McCartney's commentary on several of the videos; footage from Live Aid in '85 and the Super Bowl in '02; and, accompanying every DVD menu, various raw and unreleased live and studio performances of obscurities like "Blackpool." The late Linda McCartney is featured throughout, of course, and if The McCartney Years is a de facto tribute to his first wife, as one reviewer has suggested, it's a more than fitting one.
More info:http://www.amazon.com/McCartney-Years-Paul/dp/B000VRJ37I
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TracklistDVD 1:1. Tug Of War
2. Say Say Say
3. Silly Love Songs
4. Band On The Run
5. Maybe I'm Amazed
6. Heart Of The Country
7. Mamunia
8. With A Little Luck
9. Goodnight Tonight
10. Waterfalls
11. My Love
12. C-Moon
13. Baby's Request
14. Hi Hi Hi
15. Ebony And Ivory
16. Take It Away
17. Mull Of Kintyre
18. Helen Wheels
19. I've Had Enough
20. Coming Up
21. Wonderful Christmastime
__Extras:
1. Juniors Farm
2. Band On The Run
3. London Town
4. Mull Of Kintyre 2
5. The Southbank Show
DVD 2:1. Pipes Of Peace
2. My Brave Face
3. Beautiful Night
4. Fine Line
5. No More Lonely Nights
6. This One
7. Little Willow
8. Pretty Little Head
9. Birthday
10. Hope Of Deliverance
11. Once Upon A Long Ago
12. All My Trials
13. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
14. Press
15. No Other Baby
16. Off The Ground
17. Biker Like An Icon
18. Spies Like Us
19. Put It There
20. Figure Of Eight
21. C'Mon People
__Extras:
1. Parkinson
2. So Bad
3. Creating Chaos At Abbey Road
DVD 3:Rock Show:
1. Venus And Mars
2. Rock Show
3. Jet
4. Maybe I'm Amazed
5. Lady Madonna
6. Listen To What The Man Said
7. Bluebird
__MTV Unplugged:
8. I Lost My Little Girl
9. Every Night
10. And I Love Her
11. That Would Be Something
__Glastonbury:
12. Jet
13. Flaming Pie
14. Let Me Roll It
15. Blackbird
16. Band On The Run
17. Back In The USSR
18. Live And Let Die
19. Hey Jude
20. Yesterday
21. Helter Skelter
22. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
__Extras:
1. Live Aid
2. The Superbowl XXIV
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