McCartney Unearths Live Clips, Videos For DVD

By Jonathan Cohen
Billboard

Four decades' worth of rare footage, live performance and music videos have been rounded up for The McCartney Years, a three-DVD set due Nov. 13 via MPL/Rhino Entertainment. McCartney has also recorded new commentary for the 40-plus videos, which can be viewed in chronological order or via his own custom playlists.

The first two discs comprise the videos, beginning with 1970's "Maybe I'm Amazed" and running through 2005's "Fine Line." Bonus features on these discs include a Band on the Run promo film and a documentary on the making of McCartney's 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.

The third disc features snippets from Rockshow, filmed on the 1976 Wings tour, a new edit of McCartney's 1991 appearance on MTV's Unplugged and 11 songs from his 2004 headlining set at the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival. The live footage also boasts new commentary from McCartney.

Here is the track list for The McCartney Years:

Disc One:
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

Disc Two:
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

Disc Three:
From Rockshow:
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

From MTV Unplugged:
1. I Lost My Little Girl
2. Every Night
3. And I Love Her
4. That Would Be Something

From Glastonbury 2004:
1. Jet
2. Flaming Pie
3. Let Me Roll It
4. Blackbird
5. Band On The Run
6. Back In The USSR
7. Live And Let Die
8. Hey Jude
9. Yesterday
10. Helter Skelter"
11. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Quite a few clips missing for a three-disc set, most notably (to me), "The World Tonight," directed by Paul's son-in-law, as well as "Lonely Road

wow, just found out about this. I definately want to get this. Why isn't Rockshow presented in it's entirity?

I picked this up yesterday (as well as the special edition of Memory Almost Full with bonus tracks and a live DVD) and I must say that I'm impressed yet disappointed at the same time. Paul's commentary is very insightful and entertaining. But however two things disappointed me.

The videos have all been converted to digital (and it shows in some cases) and they have chopped off the top and bottom of the videos to give it a faux-widescreen feel to it. However, at least the "bonus videos" (such as "So Bad" and "London Town") look like they haven't been tampered with. I also was disappointed at some of the omissions. Like Brad said above, "The World Tonight" is glaring, especially when you consider that it was one of the last videos he did when Linda was alive and that it's very bittersweet. Others I have seen before but were missing from this are "Getting Closer", "Arrow Through Me", "Stranglehold" and the US version of "This One" (we do get an alternate video for the song, but not the one that I remember seeing on MTV/VH1 in 1989).

All in all, regardless it's a great package for the money and the pros outweigh the cons, but be sure you know what you're getting before you buy it.