DVD: Paul McCartney
Paul Is Live On The New World Tour (MPL/Liberty International)
Reviewed by Shaun Dale

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This DVD offers 85 minutes of highlights from Paul McCartney's 1993 New World Tour, and every minute truly deserves the designation 'highlight.' McCartney and his band, including Linda McCartney, Hamish Stuart, Robbie MacIntosh, Wix Wickens and Blair Cunningham, perform 21 songs from across the full range of the then thirty years that he had spent in the spotlight. There are Beatle songs, Wings songs and material from various stages of McCartney's solo career. Mostly, there's Paul, who after all those years was still (and, I should add, is still) performing with enthusiasm and ability to spare.

The visuals aren't really state of the art, because of the vintage of the performances. Special effects are basically those that were actually part of the stage shows themselves, but in many ways that's a feature, not a bug. The sound, though, has been remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 and is unfailingly terrific.

And besides, it's Paul. And it's "Penny Lane" and "Michelle" and "All My Loving" and "Lady Madonna" and "Live And Let Die" and so much more. In other words, it's wonderful.

© 2003 - Shaun Dale