Paul Is Live
Labels
- Parlophone / EMI (UK )
- Capitol Records (USA)
Occupation
- Paul McCartney: vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, piano
- Linda McCartney: Keyboard, backing vocals
- Hamish Stuart - acoustic guitar, guitar, bass, backing vocals
- Robbie McIntosh - guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Paul ' Wix ' Wickens - keyboards, backing vocals
- Blair Cunningham - drums, percussion
Studios
- Hog Hill Mill Studios, Sussex ( mix of songs)
Paul is Live is the fourth live album by Paul McCartney. At the same time, it is including the Wings albums, classic albums, live albums and compilations, the twenty-fifth album Paul McCartney after the breakup of the Beatles. It was released on November 15, 1993 in the UK and on November 16, 1993 in United States.
Formation
Following the release of his album Off the Ground Paul McCartney was gone again from February 1993 to tour. From 18 to February 23, 1993 Paul McCartney started his world tour under the name New World tour with a European tour with four concerts, which included two concerts in Frankfurt and Milan. From 5 to 27 March Australia / New Zealand tour followed with ten concerts. From 14 April to 15 June 1993, McCartney embarked on a North American tour with 23 concerts. The setlist was as follows:
At the request of the record company EMI, there should be for the Christmas season a new live album by Paul McCartney, Geoff Emerick as presented and McCartney 's songs live album in July 1993 in their own Hog Hill Mill Studios in Sussex together and mixed this from.
In contrast to the live albums Wings over America and Tripping the Live Fantastic this live album was released not as a triple LP nor as a double CD, but only as a double album and single CD, were so used by the average played 34 songs only nineteen. The order of the songs corresponds with exceptions, the order of the songs that have been played during the concerts. , Kansas City included on the album was played only on May 31, 1993, Kansas City. The CD ends with three soundcheck recordings, of which hotel in Benidorm and A Fine Day are new compositions.
After completion of the album on the world tour continued. From 3 September to 27 October 1993, he was a European tour with 28 concerts, then gave Paul McCartney from 12 to November 19, 1993 five concerts in Japan. The world tour ended with a tour of South America, from 25 November to 16 December, with eight concerts.
The album Paul Is Live was not a commercial success, it is likely that one of the reasons the time interval from the previous live album Tripping the Live Fantastic, published three years earlier, was too low.
The cover and album name
The cover was designed by Electronic Retouching Obscura under the direction of Roger Huggett. The front cover image comes from Ian Macmillan and the image on the CD back by Linda McCartney. The album's title was originally "From AUS to USA ", since only live recordings from the U.S. and Australia were used. The title of Paul Is Live then used is ambiguous meant, on the one hand, the term is meant a live album, on the other hand, Paul McCartney is a conspiracy theory concerning pointed out.
Since the year 1969, the rumor exists, Paul McCartney had died in a car accident and was replaced by a double. As alleged " evidence" pointing to, among other things, some details on the cover of the LP Abbey Road, for example, that McCartney is seen as only one of the Beatles barefoot, which is interpreted in the UK as a symbol of death, because people are buried there without shoes. Furthermore, it was extraordinary that he - as a left-handed - is holding his cigarette in his right hand. These conspiracy theories have been launched by a radio host. Again, the Abbey Road cover was used, but which underwent some changes:
- Instead of the four Beatles Paul McCartney is seen with a dog.
- Paul McCartney wearing shoes this time.
- The license plate of the Volkswagen here is not to be read as " 28 IF " but as " 51 IS ". At the time of release of the album McCartney was 51 years old.
- The police car from the original cover has been removed.
Title list
Single releases
No single was coupled out of the album.
In Germany and other continental European countries was on November 8, 1992 as the fourth single from the album Off the Ground to the 5 "CD- Single Biker Like an Icon / Midnight Special (Live) / Things We Said Today (Live) / Biker Like Icon (Live) published.
In the Netherlands, published on 8 November 1992, the 5 "CD- Single Biker Like an Icon / Biker Like an Icon (Live).
In Europe, the promotional album sampler Paul Is Live with the songs Magical Mystery Tour / Biker Like An Icon / My Love / Paperback Writer / Live And Let The was released in November 1993.
In Mexico, the CD - single Michelle promotion was made.
Chart positions
Reissues
- The CD has been not new remastered.
- In June 2011, the album was released in download format.
Video publication
The concert film Paul Is Live In Concert On The New World Tour was recorded during the world tour in 1993 and contains 21 songs. The directors of the film are Kevin Godley and Aubrey Powell. The movie was shot in USA, Australia, New Zealand and France. Most sound tracks of the film are of the same concert recordings have also been used for the CD. The songs Let It Be, Yesterday and Hey Jew are not included on the CD.
In March 1994, Paul Is Live In Concert On The New was World Tour released on VHS and double - VCD, in the U.S. in April 1994. The DVD was released in August 2003 in a 5.1 mix.