The McCartney Years


The McCartney Years is a three-DVD set featuring music videos, live performances and other rare footage from Paul McCartney's solo career and Wings. The set spans the years 1970 to 2005. It was released by Warner Music in the UK on 12 November 2007, and by Rhino Entertainment in the United States the following day.

Content

The first two discs comprise promotional films, from "Maybe I'm Amazed" to "Fine Line". Additional features include a documentary about his recent album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, a film about the Band on the Run album and a feature-length audio commentary from McCartney himself.
The third disc includes seven songs from the 1976 Wings concert Rockshow, four songs from McCartney's 1991 appearance on MTV Unplugged, and 11 performances from his 2004 set at Glastonbury Festival. The live footage is also complemented by an optional commentary by McCartney.
Other features includes his appearance at Live Aid in 1985, the Super Bowl XXXIX Halftime Show and interviews with Melvyn Bragg and Michael Parkinson.
All videos have been digitally remastered, and the videos that were originally shot with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 have been cropped to 1.78:1 widescreen, altering the framing of the original presentation to fit modern televisions, but losing visual information in the process. The videos included as extras are presented in their original form. Also, some videos shot on interlaced PAL sources have been poorly deinterlaced, such as the videos for "With a Little Luck", "Coming Up", "Waterfalls" and the Glastonbury 2004 set, resulting in jagged edges on the image. This does not affect the similarly shot "Goodnight Tonight" or "Baby's Request".
"Stranglehold", "Again, and Again and Again", "Spin It On", "The World Tonight" and "Young Boy" were not included in this compilation.

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "Tug of War"
  2. "Say Say Say"
  3. "Silly Love Songs"
  4. "Band [on the Run (song)|Band on the Run]"
  5. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
  6. "Heart of the Country"
  7. "Mamunia"
  8. "With a Little Luck"
  9. "Goodnight Tonight"
  10. "Waterfalls"
  11. "Wings song)|My Love]"
  12. "C Moon"
  13. "Baby's Request"
  14. "Hi, Hi, Hi"
  15. "Ebony and Ivory"
  16. "Take It Away"
  17. "Mull of Kintyre"
  18. "Helen Wheels"
  19. "I've [Had Enough (Wings song)|I've Had Enough]"
  20. "Coming Up"
  21. "Wonderful Christmastime"
;Extras

Disc 2

  1. "Pipes of Peace"
  2. "My Brave Face"
  3. "Beautiful Night"
  4. "Fine Line"
  5. "No More Lonely Nights"
  6. "This One"
  7. "Little Willow"
  8. "Pretty Little Head"
  9. "Birthday"
  10. "Hope of Deliverance"
  11. "Once Upon a Long Ago"
  12. "All My Trials"
  13. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
  14. "Press"
  15. "No Other Baby"
  16. "Off the Ground"
  17. "Biker Like an Icon"
  18. "Spies Like Us"
  19. "Put It There"
  20. "Figure of Eight"
  21. "C'Mon People"
Extras

Disc 3

Rockshow
  1. "Venus and Mars"
  2. "Rock Show"
  3. "Jet"
  4. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
  5. "Lady Madonna"
  6. "Listen to What the Man Said"
  7. "Bluebird"
MTV Unplugged
  1. "I Lost My Little Girl"
  2. "Every Night"
  3. "And [I Love Her]"
  4. "That Would Be Something"
Glastonbury
  1. "Jet"
  2. "Flaming Pie"
  3. "Let Me Roll It"
  4. "Blackbird"
  5. "Band on the Run"
  6. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
  7. "Live and Let Die"
  8. "Hey Jude"
  9. "Yesterday"
  10. "Helter Skelter"
  11. "Sgt. Pepper's [Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)#Reprise|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)]" / "The End"
Extras
  1. "Let It Be"
  1. "Drive My Car"
  2. "Get Back"
  3. "Live and Let Die"
  4. "Hey Jude"

Hidden extras

Some videos on the first two discs have different angles, because one angle is an edited version of the original; the other the original. On disc one, "Goodnight Tonight" and "Baby's Request" have different angles. The edited angle on "Goodnight Tonight" has an old film effect, but include different shots from the original, unedited video. The edited angle on "Baby's Request" is full screen, but it is in sepia and resembles a video from a film projector. The second disc's different angle is McCartney's 2005 "Fine Line", where most of the video is just white with slight outlines of McCartney playing the instrument with bits of colour and a few seconds of live-action from the original music video appearing later.