Category: Album Rock - England - Music Video - Pop/Rock - Pop - Pop/Rock
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $15.99YOU SAVE $8.96!
Buy it
DVD Paul McCartney - The Space Within US
The eternal fascination with all things Beatle pretty much guarantees an audience for even the less stellar offerings from the group and its respective members, and that will likely be the case with Paul McCartney - The Space Within US, a documentary recorded during his 2005 world tour (and broadcast in truncated form by A&E). Not that it's by any means bad. McCartney and his crack four-piece band are seen performing a variety of Fabs faves, from the delightful trifle that is "I'll Follow the Sun" to the genuine masterpiece that is "For No One" (the latter is a solo job, as are "I Will," "Yesterday," and others); as Apple computer poo-bah Steve Jobs, one of the many talking heads on hand to sing Macca's praises, points out, just hearing these classics played and sung by the guy who wrote (or co-wrote) 'em is a treat, and the great sound and high definition video certainly don't hurt. On the minus side, the camera spends a lot of time in the audience, capturing their rapturous and often quite touching responses to the music. There are also bits focusing on a Beatles-obsessed family from Columbus, Ohio, all three generations of which are excited, to put it mildly, when Sir Paul pays them a brief visit before going onstage, and on two astronauts on board the International Space Station, for whom McCartney plays "English Tea" (from his 2005 CD Chaos and Creation in the Backyard) through a live feed from his Anaheim, California gig. These tangents may be distracting to fans who just want to watch McCartney and company at work, but considering that this was dubbed "the Us Tour," they should hardly come as a surprise. Same goes for the disparate line-up of celebs and others, ranging from Bill Clinton and various academic types to Tony Bennett and Eddie Vedder, whose comments punctuate (and occasionally interrupt) the music. Bottom line: there are better McCartney concert videos (like Live in Red Square), but this is a Beatle we're talking about here. For many, that will be more than enough. --Sam Graham
Review(s): DVD Paul McCartney - The Space Within US
Paul As Entertainer, Not Artist
Another echo of the many, many complaints here. The band is utterly fantastic, Paul is genuinely relaxed onstage (watching how he takes the guitar lead on the "Foxey Lady" riff early on is SO refreshing), and the tunes are out of this world. He's working with the greatest band he has assembled in the post-Beatles era, he's coming off a string of superlative albums...and he puts out yet another dvd chock full of soul-crushingly sycophantic messiah-worship that is every bit as ham-fisted as his best work is nuanced. I agree that it is a deep-seated insecurity, and not an excess of arrogance (as it was with John Lennon), that drives him to put out this infomercial-eque drivel. There is a huge minority of McCartney fans out there that despises the hollow theatrics and redundant myth-making, and it's a shame to think that he still feels called upon to constantly succumb to shark-eyed mass adulation.
Excellent concert series
The baby boomers icon paul McCartney shines in this concert footage. His voice is still strong, and his charisma still evident as he wows the crowd night after night. The DVD is excerpts from a recent tour of the U.S and is must have for any Beatle/McCartney fan. While there were some songs I wish had been included such as few from his RAM album, I was not dissapointed.
It could have been better
I went to the 2005 US Tour and the 2002 Driving Tour. Super...Super tour.
It seems that every new dvd of a concert you see more people than the band. Fans really want to see the band playing, and of course all the songs, that's what everybody was hoping for. It's ok to show a bit of the audience, but not that much. In "HEY JUDE", it only showed a bit of the end. "LET IT BE" was the same. These songs were in the songs list of the dvd but it wasn't, "really". I know that hundreds of thousands of people around the world "AGREE" that IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. If the dvd would have all complete songs, it would have been 5 Stars....A GREAT MEMORABILIA for those who went to the concert. What happened to LIVE AND LET DIE?, IN SPITE OF ALL THE DANGER?, JET?, BAND ON THE RUN?, SGT. PEPPER/THE END? Hope,next dvd tour will be better.
Related DVD's Paul McCartney - The Space Within US
The Beatles Anthology may be the motherlode for fans of the Fabs, but among other Beatle-related video offerings, only The Concert for George matches Paul McCartney - Live in Red Square for sheer emotional and musical impact. It's no coincidence that the latter two chronicle not just concerts but significant events--a memorial for Harrison (he had died a year earlier), and Sir Paul's first visit to the former Soviet Union.
For the Russian audience, McCartney's appearance in Moscow is little short of a miracle. The Beatles were banned for decades by the Soviet government, which regarded their music as the epitome of Western decadence and propaganda, and the fans' only access to the group was through the occasional photo or black market album. Their reaction to his... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Mark Haefeli DVD Release Date: Released the 14 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $24.95 Your Price: $18.71YOU SAVE $6.24!
Buy it
