Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6514 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-12
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Best of, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: German, English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 375 minutes

Synopsis
Career retrospective of the former Beatle.

Customer Reviews

A great DVD but not for the completist!
Its great to have this DVD. I am a massive McCartney fan and I love seeing these promo videos, many I have not seen before. For the money it does seem good value I have to say and the sound quality and picture is amazing, especially on the 5.1 setting.
The live footage is great so is the bouns footage. Any McCartney fan would enjoy this DVD.
My only criticism is that I had hoped it would be complete. True the widescreen criticism already mentioned by previous reviewers is a little bit of a shame, and I can see their point, but to me the biggest dissapointment was that it is not complete. I hoped it would be all of Pauls promo videos but lots are missing. Where is "Stranglehold", "Again, and Again and Again", "Spin it on", "Wildlife", "The World Tonight", "Young Boy", I could go on and on. Also Rockshow and Unplugged sets from disc 3 are only highlights, I thought they would be the entire shows, maybe I was expecting too much, but I would have gladly paid a little more and had it all complete.
But all in all I am pleased they have done this DVD set, and it reminds you just what great music Macca has given us and continues to give us.
Keep it up!
Paul

McCartney in Superb Sound - At Last!
Have just received this in the post, and am pleased to report sound quality is suberb (knocks spots off other Paul DVD's). You have the choice of playing the soundtrack in chronological order, or in an order picked by Paul. It most cases, visually it looks good too.

The third disc contains excerpts from 3 concerts, including bonus material from Live Aid and the Superbowl concerts. The unplugged songs are particularly good.

Highly recommended!!

Publisher's Review
Aug 23, 2007 21:13 ET
New McCartney DVD Set for Release 'THE McCARTNEY YEARS'
Features Exclusive Commentary, Behind the Scenes Footage, Over 40 Music Videos and Two Hours of Historic Live Performances; 'THE McCARTNEY YEARS' Is Set for Release November 13th, 2007

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - August 23, 2007) - On November 13th, 2007, 'THE McCARTNEY YEARS' will hit the stores from MPL/Rhino Entertainment. This first time ever DVD includes the definitive visual collection of Paul McCartney's amazing career featuring solo music videos, career-spanning live performances, personal commentary by Paul McCartney and exclusive footage that tracks his incredible musical journey as never before.

Spanning four decades, 'THE McCARTNEY YEARS' is a three volume DVD collection, featuring some of the world's best-loved music that has become the soundtrack to all our lives.

VOLUME ONE and VOLUME TWO contain the definitive collection of McCartney music videos. Starting in the 1970s with Paul McCartney's first solo single "Maybe I'm Amazed," the DVD includes the Wings promo video for "Band On The Run" as well as hits from the 1980s such as "Say Say Say," and the 1990s with "The World Tonight." It finishes with 2005's "Fine Line." The films can be viewed either in chronological order or as play-lists that have been personally arranged by Paul featuring his exclusive voiceover commentaries.

VOLUME THREE includes live performances taken from three classic McCartney live shows; "ROCKSHOW" filmed on Wings' 1976 World Tour, new edits of Paul's seminal "UNPLUGGED" in 1991 and Paul's now legendary headlining performance at 2004's GLASTONBURY Festival.

'THE McCARTNEY YEARS' is also packed with bonus features and extra never before seen footage and performances, including "Let It Be" from LIVE AID, archive interviews with Melvyn Bragg and Michael Parkinson, alternative versions of music videos and the full-length 2005 documentary "Creating Chaos at Abbey Road." Paul has recorded exclusive commentary and personal introductions for each promo video and each live concert.

This collection has been meticulously restored and all films polished, re-graded and given a new lease on life in Widescreen format with re-mastered stereo audio and for the first time the original recordings re-mixed into 5.1 surround sound. 'THE McCARTNEY YEARS' includes over 40 promo videos and over two hours of live performances.

(please see discussion for track list)