Good Evening New York City

Good Evening New York City
Live album by Paul McCartney
Publication (s)	November 14, 2009 ( UK ) , November 17, 2009 ( US )
Label (s)	Hear Music / Concord Music Group / Universal Music Group
Format (s)	CD , download
Genre (s)	Rock , pop
Title (number)	33
running time	CD 1: 60 min 34 s, CD 2: 62 min 37 s, DVD: 154 min 27 s, bonus DVD: 47 min 4 s
occupation	Paul McCartney - vocals , guitar , bass , piano , ukulele , mandolin Rusty Anderson - guitar, backing vocals Brian Ray - guitar, bass, backing vocals Paul “Wix” Wickens - keyboard , accordion , harmonica , guitar, percussion , backing vocals Abe Laboriel Jr. - drums , percussion, backing vocals Sound engineers : John Henry, Geoff Emerick , Paul Hicks as well as Jonas Westling and Richard Lancaster
production	Paul McCartney
chronology Electric Arguments (2008) Good Evening New York City Ocean's Kingdom (2011)

Good Evening New York City is the seventh live album by Paul McCartney . At the same time, including the Wings albums, The Fireman albums, the classic albums, the live albums and compilation albums, it is Paul McCartney's 42nd album after the Beatles split up . It was released on November 14, 2009 in Europe and on November 17, 2009 in the US.

Emergence

Paul McCartney at a concert in August 2009

After the release of the album Electric Arguments , Paul McCartney toured North America from July 11 to August 19, 2009 and gave ten concerts, in addition to a seven-song concert in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater for the Late Show with David Letterman . The tour was called "Summer Live '09". The line-up of Paul McCartney's band has been constant since 2002, some of which also appeared on the studio albums Driving Rain , Chaos and Creation in the Backyard and Memory Almost Full . The setlist of Summer Live '09 Tour is essentially identical to the published live album Good Evening New York City with the following exceptions:

• All My Loving and Mull of Kintyre - was only played on July 11, 2009 in Halifax, Canada
• It's So Easy - was only 19 August 2009 Arlington ( Texas played)

Paul McCartney, 2009

On July 17th, 18th and 21st, 2009 Paul McCartney gave three concerts at Citi Field in New York . The stadium is located in the immediate vicinity of Shea Stadium , where the Beatles began their North American tour on August 15, 1965, in front of the then record crowd of 55,600 spectators. On July 16 and 18, 2008, Billy Joel gave two multi-guest concerts at Shea Stadium before it was demolished. One of the invited guests was Paul McCartney, who sang the songs I Saw Her Standing There and Let It Be with Billy Joel . The two songs were released on the album and the DVD The Last Play at Shea on October 21, 2010. In return, Billy Joel was a guest at Paul McCartney on July 17, 2009 and sang the song I Saw Her Standing There with him again .

The songs were mixed by Geoff Emerick and Paul Hicks. As with the live albums Wings over America , Tripping the Live Fantastic , Back in the US and Back in the World , Good Evening New York City was released as a double CD. The order of the songs on the CD corresponds to the sequence during the concerts.

While there are five Beatles songs on the album Wings over America , the number has been increased to 15 on Tripping the Live Fantastic , Back to the US to 19 and Back in the World to 21, and 21 Beatles songs are also on the album Album Good Evening New York City .

One of the Beatles' songs is the George Harrison composition Something , which Paul McCartney played in memory of George Harrison, who died in November 2001. McCartney accompanied himself on a ukulele , a favorite instrument of Harrison. In memory of John Lennon , Paul McCartney played the medley A Day in the Life / Give Peace a Chance and the song Here Today as an homage .

For the first time Paul McCartney played songs from The Fireman: Sing the Changes and Highway . The album was not released as a vinyl long-playing record.

For the song Helter Skelter Paul McCartney 2011 received a Grammy in the category Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance . From December 2nd to 22nd, 2009 a European tour with the name Good Evening Europe Tour with eight concerts followed.

Cover design

The cover was designed by Julian House from Intro. The photos of the cover and those of the CD booklet are from Bill Bernstein, Brantley Guitierrez and Lloyd Bishop. The 16-page booklet contains information about the album and the concert. The CDs / DVDs of the standard version are in a double fold-open cardboard cover, which is in turn in a cardboard sleeve.

Track list

CD

CD 1

1. Drive My Car ( Lennon / McCartney ) - 2:25

   The Beatles single from 1965

2. Jet (Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney) - 4:20

   from the Wings album Band on the Run

3. Only Mama Knows (Paul McCartney) - 3:41

   from McCartney's album Memory Almost Full

4. Flaming Pie (Paul McCartney) - 2:29

   from McCartney's album Flaming Pie

5. Got to Get You into My Life (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:51

   from The Beatles album Revolver

6. Let Me Roll It (with parts of the Jimi Hendrix song Foxy Lady ) (Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney) - 5:51

   from the Wings album Band on the Run

7. Highway (Paul McCartney) - 3:55

   from The Fireman album Electric Arguments

8. The Long and Winding Road (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:41

   from The Beatles album Let It Be

9. My Love (Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney) - 3:53

   from the Wings album Red Rose Speedway

10. Blackbird (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:43

    from The Beatles album The BEATLES

11. Here Today (Paul McCartney) - 2:32

    from the McCartney album Tug of War

12. Dance Tonight (Paul McCartney) - 3:02

    from the McCartney album Memory Allmost Full

13. Calico Skies (Paul McCartney) - 2:39

    from McCartney's album Flaming Pie

14. Mrs Vandebilt (Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney) - 4:40

    from the Wings album Band on the Run

15. Eleanor Rigby (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:25

    from The Beatles album Revolver

16. Sing the Changes (Paul McCartney) - 4:17

    from The Fireman album Electric Arguments

17. Band on the Run (Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney) - 5:16

    from the Wings album Band on the Run

CD 2

1. Back in the USSR (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:08

   from The Beatles album The BEATLES

2. I'm Down (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:23

   The Beatles Single B-Side by Help! from 1965

3. Something ( George Harrison ) - 4:07

   from The Beatles album Abbey Road

4. I've Got a Feeling (Lennon / McCartney) - 5:51

   from The Beatles album Let It Be

5. Paperback Writer (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:29

   The Beatles single from 1966

6. A Day in the Life (Lennon / McCartney) / Give Peace a Chance (Lennon / McCartney) - 5:44

   from The Beatles' 1969 album Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / John Lennon single from 1969

7. Let It Be (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:55

   from The Beatles album Let It Be

8. Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney / Linda McCartney) - 3:14

   Wings single from 1973

9. Hey Jude (Lennon / McCartney) - 7:23

   The Beatles single from 1968

10. Day Tripper (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:12

    The Beatles single from 1965

11. Lady Madonna (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:33

    The Beatles single from 1968

12. I Saw Her Standing There (with Billy Joel ) (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:09

    from The Beatles album Please Please Me

13. Yesterday (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:17

    from the Beatles album Help!

14. Helter Skelter (Lennon / McCartney) - 3:53

    from The Beatles album The BEATLES

15. Get Back (Lennon / McCartney) - 4:00

    from The Beatles album Let It Be

16. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Lennon / McCartney) / The End (Lennon / McCartney) - 4:28

    from The Beatles albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road

DVD

The DVD has a 5.1 mix.

Drive my car jet Only Mama Knows Flaming Pie Got to Get You into My Life Let me roll it Highway The Long and Winding Road my love Blackbird Here Today Dance Tonight Calico Skies Mrs. Vandebilt Eleanor Rigby Sing the changes

Band on the run Back in the USSR I'm down Something I've got a feeling Paperback Writer let it be Live and Let Die Hey Jew Day gonorrhea Lady Madonna I Saw Her Standing There (with Billy Joel) Yesterday Helter Skelter Get back Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) / The End

Deluxe Edition Bonus DVD

The two CDs and the two DVDs of the deluxe edition are embedded in a rectangular hardcover book (19.5 cm × 14 cm), the illustrated book contains 36 pages. In addition to the two CDs listed above and the standard DVD, the deluxe edition also contains an additional DVD with the following content:

• Live on the Late Show with David Letterman

1. Get back
2. Sing the changes
3. Coming up
4. Band on the run
5. Let me roll it
6. Helter Skelter
7. Back in the USSR

• Good Evening People (Audience Documentary Film)
• I'm Down (Full Performance)

Re-releases

• The CD has not yet been remastered .

Single releases

No single was released from the album.

Promotional publications

In November 2009, the promotional album sampler Good Evening New York City was released in the USA and Europe with the following songs: Sing the Changes (live) / I've Got a Feeling (live) / Live and Let Die (live)

The promotional single CD Highway was released in France .

Chart placements

year	album	Chart placements					annotation
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2009	Good Evening New York City	54	-	-	28	16	The album also reached number 18 in the Japanese and number 8 in the Norwegian charts.

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
United States (RIAA)	gold	500,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver	60,000
All in all	1 × silver 1 × gold	560,000

literature

• CD booklet
• Luca Perasi: Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013). LILY Publishing, Milan, Italy 2013, ISBN 978-88-909122-1-4 , p. 411.

Web links

• More information about the album
• Official Homepage: Good Evening New York City
• Summer Live '09 Tour
• Good Evening Europe Tour

Individual evidence

1. ^ Promotional album sampler Good Evening New York City
2. ↑ Promotional CD single: Highway