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Each One Believing: On Stage, Off Stage, and Backstage
Each One Believing is a revealing, access-all-areas account of life on the road with Paul McCartney. Filled with photographs never before published and insider details, Each One Believing takes you behind the scenes for an exclusive look into a private world. Based on Paul McCartney's most celebrated tour since The Beatles, it weaves Paul's own personal reflections -- along with those of his wife, Heather, his band, and his crew -- together with hundreds of dynamic images by the tour's official photographer, Bill Bernstein, showing both Paul's public appearances and the quiet, one-on-one moments. What drives him to perform? What does it feel like to sing the songs that have touched so many of our lives? This remarkable journey takes us from New York in the days following 9/11, when Paul wrote Freedom; across North America, Europe, and Japan; to his historic show in Moscow's Red Square, "because, having written 'Back in the USSR', I wanted to go there and play that." Poignant and candid, funny and illuminating, Each One Believing is a road trip unlike any other.
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208 pages, Hardcover
First published October 14, 2004
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Paul McCartney
984 books501 followersSir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. He gained worldwide fame as one of the founders and members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". After leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney, and songwriter/singer Denny Laine. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help international charities.
McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single. (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so—in 1984—was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.)
His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 3,000 songs, including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.
An iconic figure in contemporary culture, he is regarded internationally as an entertainer and humanitarian. Aside from his musical work, McCartney is an actor, a painter, a poet, and an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns against landmines, seal hunting, and Third World debt.
McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single. (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so—in 1984—was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.)
His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 3,000 songs, including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.
An iconic figure in contemporary culture, he is regarded internationally as an entertainer and humanitarian. Aside from his musical work, McCartney is an actor, a painter, a poet, and an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns against landmines, seal hunting, and Third World debt.
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January 28, 2021
This book is something that would be of interest to a Macca fan, although given McCartney's extensive body of work in touring, one wonders how essential this book is, which records the 2002-03 world tour of the artist, which was at that time the most financially successful tour of McCartney's post-Beatles career. One of the most notable aspects of this book, which deserves high praise, is the photography from Bill Bernstein, who did a good job with his access at pointing out the warmth of the relationship between McCartney and his crack backing band of musicians as well as the odd and compelling nature of the tour itself and its somewhat strange decorations of the pre-show area as well. I am not sure how I would have felt personally having gone to a tour like that, as it does not seem to be the sort of eccentric show whose aesthetics would be all that pleasing to me. It is obvious that McCartney brought the songs, as at this point he had something like 40 years of experience as a recording audience and a massive body of work that led to shows that lasted around two and a half hours apiece of 36 songs or so per performance. While I do not think that the tour decor would have been worth the money, hearing 36 songs from McCartney's career played well would have been an excellent experience.
This book is a bit more than 200 pages long and it is divided into nearly 30 scenes, in lieu of calling them chapters. This book is large and the pictures in it are also large, and this book has the makings of a coffee table book that would be easy to find, one would think, in the homes of those who consider themselves passionate fans of Paul McCartney. As it happens, the titles of each of the book's chapters end up being from the lyrics of songs that were sung during the tour, and the effort manages to be chronological in at least two interesting ways. For one, the book is chronologically organized over the course of the touring and shows themselves, beginning with rehearsals as well as the massive amount of logistics work that goes into setting up each individual stop, moving the band's personnel and tour setup from place to place, and doing the work of warm-ups and press meet and greets and pre-show entertainment, to the performances themselves, and the parties and after-parties. The book is also chronological in terms of the shows and tours themselves, beginning in Los Angeles with the rehearsals and then moving first across the United States and then around the world, exploring many of the shows. So we see the trucks bringing the set to Tampa and also see a party in Stockholm later on, so that the book ends up being doubly chronological by providing snapshots of the whole show itself as well as preparations and logistics as well as of the whole tour itself, an inventive structure.
Although the music was without a doubt a highlight of this particular world tour, there are aspects in which this book has not aged the best. It is, of course, highly ironic to read this book at a time where touring has virtually stopped in some parts of the world, including the part where I happen to live, because of concerns about Covid, but I do not hold such a thing against a book. There are, though, other areas where the book manages to hit a false note, though, and that is the way that the book is so laudatory about Heather Mills, McCartney's wife at the time. In fact, it seems very likely that the money made in this tour served as a large part of the money that Mills was able to obtain from McCartney in the divorce settlement, meaning that this tour probably did not end up profiting McCartney at all from a financial point of view, even as it might have endangered his ability to use his fame to engage in unofficial acts of diplomacy, as when he urged Putin to sign the anti-landmine treaty in furtherance of a cause that was of particular importance to Mills.
This book is a bit more than 200 pages long and it is divided into nearly 30 scenes, in lieu of calling them chapters. This book is large and the pictures in it are also large, and this book has the makings of a coffee table book that would be easy to find, one would think, in the homes of those who consider themselves passionate fans of Paul McCartney. As it happens, the titles of each of the book's chapters end up being from the lyrics of songs that were sung during the tour, and the effort manages to be chronological in at least two interesting ways. For one, the book is chronologically organized over the course of the touring and shows themselves, beginning with rehearsals as well as the massive amount of logistics work that goes into setting up each individual stop, moving the band's personnel and tour setup from place to place, and doing the work of warm-ups and press meet and greets and pre-show entertainment, to the performances themselves, and the parties and after-parties. The book is also chronological in terms of the shows and tours themselves, beginning in Los Angeles with the rehearsals and then moving first across the United States and then around the world, exploring many of the shows. So we see the trucks bringing the set to Tampa and also see a party in Stockholm later on, so that the book ends up being doubly chronological by providing snapshots of the whole show itself as well as preparations and logistics as well as of the whole tour itself, an inventive structure.
Although the music was without a doubt a highlight of this particular world tour, there are aspects in which this book has not aged the best. It is, of course, highly ironic to read this book at a time where touring has virtually stopped in some parts of the world, including the part where I happen to live, because of concerns about Covid, but I do not hold such a thing against a book. There are, though, other areas where the book manages to hit a false note, though, and that is the way that the book is so laudatory about Heather Mills, McCartney's wife at the time. In fact, it seems very likely that the money made in this tour served as a large part of the money that Mills was able to obtain from McCartney in the divorce settlement, meaning that this tour probably did not end up profiting McCartney at all from a financial point of view, even as it might have endangered his ability to use his fame to engage in unofficial acts of diplomacy, as when he urged Putin to sign the anti-landmine treaty in furtherance of a cause that was of particular importance to Mills.
September 14, 2022
A delightful back stage and onstage look at Paul's 2002 world tour, with candid interviews with him and his band and lots of info on the logistics of pulling off a huge tour. Much of his band is identical to that who accompanied him on his wonderful 2022 Got Back tour, which I followed on YouTube. Acouple of things are drastically different: Paul was in love with Heather Mills and married her on the tour. Well, we all know how awful that turned out. Another weird aspect was that, in 2002 Putin was perceived as a good guy and warmly received Paul in Moscow. Pretty big change from 2022, the invasion of Ukraine and Paul waving the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 in concert to protest Putin's war...and refusing to play Back in the USSR. He's also 20 years older and a sadder but wiser man now: at least he has a good woman by his side these days.
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