OUT THERE : BROOKLYN (Soundcheck June 8 2013)

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Helloooo soundcheckers!


Paul's happy to see Abe


Twenty flight rock... 


End of soundcheck


Backstage. Sort of....



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‘Rockshow’ Released Next Week. Available To Stream On Facebook This Weekend!

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JUN072013

‘Rockshow’ Released Next Week. Available To Stream On Facebook This Weekend!

Next week will see the release on DVD, Blu-ray and Download of 'Rockshow', the live concert film which was shot in 1976 when Paul McCartney & Wings undertook the epic ‘Wings over the World’ tour. It would be the largest-scale tour they would ever undertake as a band.

Pre-order your copy of the film now from Amazon HERE!

The film is packed with all the classic Wings hits - plus some of The Beatles’ and Paul’s solo classics. Although filmed on the ‘Wings over the World’ tour at the enormous Kingdome in Seattle, ‘Rockshow’, originally a cut down version of the concert, was not premiered until November 1980 in New York and April 1981 in London.

If you can’t wait until next week to watch 'Rockshow' fans can now stream the film exclusively at Paul’s Facebook page. It will only be available until midnight on Sunday (UK time) so be quick! Check it out HERE!



‘Rockshow’ was originally released on Betamax (later on laserdisc) but it’s only now that the complete full length concert is being made available fully restored from the original 35mm film and with restored & remastered sound, including a 5.1 mix for the first time.



Let us know what you think of the film and your favourite tracks from it in the comments below...

Wings: A Very Lovely Party On Tour

Publicado el 29/05/2013
By JimmyMcCullochFan
On Tour with Paul McCartney's Wings during their 1976 American Tour.

 

New Video: Paul Gets #OutThere In Austin

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JUN052013

New Video: Paul Gets #OutThere In Austin

Paul and his band recently performed at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. During the visit Paul presented the Mayor of Austin with PETA's most Vegan-Friendly City plaque. During the ceremony Paul was also presented with the key to the city.

Watch the video below...



US fans can check out the Top 10 Vegan-Friendly cities at PETA's website HERE!
 

 

#OutThere Video Clip From Orlando

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#OutThere Video Clip From Orlando

On May 18th Paul kicked off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour at the Amway Center in Orlando. Check out a new behind-the-scenes look at Paul and the band warming up before the show.



The all-new "Out There" tour will see Paul and his band travel the world throughout the year, even visiting some places they've never been before.

Let us know if you'll be seeing Paul play live this year in the comments below...

Two Garage Sale Books

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Two Garage Sale Books
by beatlesblogger
May 28, 2013

Sometimes when you go out to garage or yard sales hunting specifically for vinyl records you never actually see any. Not one. No Beatles records. No records at all. It can be very disheartening.

That was the case a couple of weekends ago for me. There seemed to be something of a drought of vinyl for some reason. None of the four or five places I called into that morning had a thing.

However, I did mange to get two quite interesting and collectable books - one of which I know is controversial, but more on that later....

Starting with the non-controversial book first. The guy selling it didn't have it out on display. Because I couldn't see any records at his sale I asked (as I always do): "You don't have any records or CD's do you?". This is just in case they have some discs, but haven't thought to put them out. It happens more than you think....

"No," he replied. "What are you looking for?"

"I'm after anything to do with the Beatles. I'm not a dealer, I'm just a collector," I said.

"Well, I do have a Beatles book if you're interested", and with that he shot off inside the house and emerged again with this:

The Beatles Forever is a vintage Beatles picture book and it was in really good condition. It's a British publication dating from 1981. The author is Helen Spence, and as you can see from the front cover image above it has a foreword by legendary US disc jockey Alan Freedman. It is a loose chronology of the band's journey from unknowns to super stardom and contains lots of great colour photographs on every page:

The basic premise for the book is detailed on the inside flap of the dust jacket:

It begins "The Beatles Forever is an outstanding collection of photographs dating back some twenty years to the beginning of a phenomenon which changed the face of the sixties and the sound of popular music for all time. These photographs, many published here for the first time, have been carefully gathered together to present a scrap-book of the Beatles". And that's a pretty acurate description:

And here is the rear cover:

From this garage sale I moved on to another. These people didn't have any vinyl or CD's either....but they also had a book. A very thick book. A book about John Lennon: 

This was a US hardback, a first edition of Albert Goldman's much-maligned work which came out in 1988. As Wikepedia says, "The book is a product of several years of research and hundreds of interviews with many of Lennon's friends, acquaintances, servants and musicians. Notwithstanding, it is best known for its criticism and generally negative representation of the personal lives of Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. [It is] controversial because of its portrayal of Lennon in a highly critical light. Lennon was presented in the book as a talented but deeply flawed man who manipulated people and relationships throughout his life, flinging them aside when they were no longer useful to him. Goldman also suggested that Lennon was an anti-Semite and a heavy drug-user and that he was dyslexic and a schizophrenic. The author even went into detail about the long-rumored homosexual affair between Lennon and the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, as well as alleging a number of liaisons by Lennon with other men, including a claim that he solicited underage male prostitutes in Thailand. This latter assertion greatly angered Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney. The book was criticised by Lennon fans for allegedly containing much unsubstantiated conjecture, and tending to present worst-case scenarios when doing so."

I had a paperback copy of this book, but a first edition hardback in excellent condition was tempting despite it's critical reputation. Like I said, it is very thick:

And so I bought it. I like the cover, too. A great Iain Macmillan photograph of John Lennon. If you don't think you know Macmillan's work, you do. He's the guy who took the famous photos for the cover of Abbey Road. He also did a  lot of other work for John and Yoko including:

• The cloud on the album cover for Live Peace in Toronto
• Photos on the album Some Time in New York City
• The wedding cake in the Wedding Album
• The merging heads label of John and Yoko's vinyl single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)"

On the rear cover of the Goldman book Macmillan's portrait of John his is presented simply like this:

‘You Gave Me The Answer’ - Steven From The U.S. Asks...

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‘You Gave Me The Answer’ - Steven From The U.S. Asks...

This month Paul answers the fourth question in our feature 'You Gave Me The Answer'. May's question comes from Steven in the U.S. ...

Steven asks, 'What are your highlights from the 'Wings over the World Tour?'

We caught up with Paul recently during his all-new "Out There" tour which began earlier this month at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to find out…

Paul told us: "For me, the highlights from the 'Wings over the World' tour are Madison Square Garden, New York and The Kingdome in Seattle. And after a year's work of trying to achieve the impossible – forming a band after The Beatles - we made it. The smell of success was sweet."

The climax of the world tour was the incredible performance at the mammoth Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, which was watched by a staggering 67,000 fans who listened to Paul and Wings perform a setlist full of classic songs, including Venus & Mars, Band on the Run, Let Me Roll It, Jet, Bluebird, The Long And Winding Road, Maybe I'm Amazedand Yesterday. This remarkable concert was brought to life in 1980 with the concert film 'Rockshow' which has recently been fully restored and remastered from the original film and audio masters.

The American leg of the tour - 7 weeks and 31 concerts - also became the name of the 1976 live album, 'Wings over America' by Paul and Wings, recorded that summer on their only US tour. Paul said "We finally proved that we could be a really cool band - play to American audiences in the same way the Beatles had and have the same impact, in a different way. It was a buzz - a huge buzz."

Previous questions answered by Paul include where he would go if he had a time machine, who was the biggest influence on his bass playing, and if he could re-live one day in his life what day would it be.

If you'd like to send in your questions for Paul to answer, click HERE

Let us know what your highlights from the "Out There" tour are in the comments section below!