Zeit - Paul Kalkbrenner

Advantages: All time classic tracks, great feel
Disadvantages: None I could find

...I was in Washington Airport, waiting to come home, and wandering around the shops (like you do at airports) I ended up in the CD store. Well I needed something to relieve the monotony of a 7 hour flight back to the UK, so looking round I saw this CD. I’d heard the ructions about the album credits while I was out in the States for this trip, so I thought “well I’d better get this then! See what all the fuss is about” In the rehearsals, Paul (and the band) got into the press because some very wealthy guy gave him $1 Million to play for his wife’s birthday!! The money went to a land mine charity, most of the press slagged him off because of it!! I guess you can’t win. Anyway.. ** The Album ** I was full of anticipation, after owning “Wings over America” for many years, I sort of used that as my benchmark of what to expect... Read review

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Advantages: You can see the concert on DVD
Disadvantages: You get a lot of audience shots and documentary

...Paul McCartney’s ‘Back in the US’ concert tour of America in 2002 was captured on DVD. An icon of pop music, he changed countless lives and carved his name through whole cultures. Here he can be seen playing over thirty songs, live in front of huge audiences. Paul McCartney is a giant of musical creativity and a great singer and performer still rightly venerated by most of the world forty years after he first became famous. For those of us who were fortunate enough to have grown up in the 1960s there were other giants. John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, The Who, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin… the list goes on. What we didn’t know then is how spoilt we were. We thought that this standard of song writing and musical innovation was quite normal. Time has marched... Read review

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Advantages: Some fantastic songs that benefitted from a live atmosphere.
Disadvantages: Some tracks didn't work vocally, a little Beatle bias.

...You would have to have lived in a cave over the past forty odd years not to have heard of Paul McCartney; in spite of his now ex-wife's original claim that she'd never heard of the fab four before she met the man himself (yeah, right), most people left on the planet may wish to rekindle memories of years gone by, or even discover them for the first time. The purpose of the Paul McCartney 'Back in the World' Live CD was obviously to take the joy of seeing the ex-Beatle live into the home of many more people who may not be able to folk out £50 to £60 for a concert ticket. This two disk set, as it conveniently points out on the front, contains 36 tracks by the man himself, chronicling his time in the world's biggest band ever to his time in Wings and even his extensive solo career. I'm not saying that it wasn't realised in order to earn... Read review

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