Paul McCartney's historic three-night musical christening of New
York's Citi Field, witnessed by 120,000-plus attendees and
universally hailed as a concert experience for the ages, will be
immortalized November 17 when Hear Music/Concord Music Group
releases
Good Evening New York City. This momentous musical
experience will be available in two formats: a 3-disc (2 CD + 1
DVD) standard edition and a 4-disc (2 CD + 2 DVD) deluxe version
featuring expanded packaging and a bonus DVD including
McCartney's traffic-stopping, headline-making July 15
performance on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee (including bonus
numbers not aired on the Late Show with David Letterman
broadcast). The set will also be made available in high quality
vinyl. In any configuration, the 30+ songs and nearly 3 hours of
music comprising
Good Evening
New York City are a must-have for attendees wishing
to relive the July 17, 18 & 21 shows, those who couldn't get
tickets and/or anyone interested in an audiovisual document of a
living legend.
Good Evening
New
York City
marks McCartney’s 2nd release for Hear Music. The
first was 2007’s highly acclaimed
Memory Almost Full.
The standard version of
Good Evening
New York City will be available at participating
Starbucks company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada and
wherever music is sold.
As
the inaugural musical event at Citi Field, the site of the
former Shea Stadium, the July 2009 shows held special
significance not only for McCartney but for generations of his
fans. The shows were performed on the same hallowed ground that
The Beatles, in 1965, played the 34-minute show that would set
the precedent for the modern day stadium rock show--and where in
2008 McCartney joined Billy Joel for the final rock show before
the original stadium's demolition. As documented on
Good Evening
New York City, "I'm Down" from the 1965 set list was
revived for the Citi Field shows, albeit this time played
through a PA that was not overpowered by screaming fans (though
there were still several thousand who tried). Other highlights
of Good
Evening New York City include faithful takes on
Beatles classics "Drive My Car," "Got To Get You Into My Life,"
"The Long And Winding Road," "Blackbird," "Eleanor Rigby," "Back
In The USSR," "Paperback Writer," "Let It Be," "Hey Jude,"
"Helter Skelter" and more, plus "Something" rendered on ukulele
gifted to Paul by George Harrison, and a tribute to John Lennon
in the form of a medley of "A Day In The Life" and "Give Peace A
Chance." Wings era chestnuts include “Band On The Run," "My
Love," "Let Me Roll It" and the pyrotechnic tour de force of
"Live And Let Die," while timeless McCartney solo material
ranges from "Here Today" to the upbeat "Flaming Pie" and "Dance
Tonight" to a pair of numbers from
Electric Arguments,
the 2008 album released under the alias of The Fireman.
