RELEASING ‘LIVE IN RED SQUARE’ DVD IN MAY

Paul McCartney and wife Heather will host the Adopt-A-Minefield Gala on May 28th in Dusseldorf, Germany. It’s still up in the air whether McCartney and his band will perform as they have at the previous charity galas thrown in the U.S.


McCartney, who should be announcing details of his upcoming U.S. tour shortly, will be releasing a DVD of his Emmy-nominated concert documentary Paul McCartney Live in Red Square on May 31st. The DVD will include exclusive behind-the-scenes bonus footage and clocks in at around three hours.

The original special that ran on the A&E network chronicles McCartney’s first visit to Russia, where he met with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and current President Vladimir Putin. It and features McCartney’s historic show in Moscow’s Red Square on May 24th, 2003 in front of 100,000 fans.

McCartney’s lead guitarist, Rusty Anderson, is thrilled with the DVD and told LAUNCH that that it blows away the band’s last concert DVD Back In The U.S., which chronicled McCartney’s 2002 U.S. tour: [”We’d been a band — we’d been playing together for a year, and the difference between that early DVD and that is just insane. The tempos are better, the playing is better, the mix is better, the vocals are better… The difference in us as a band was really apparent to me.”]

The concert portions of the special featured McCartney performing both Beatles and solo hits including “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Band On The Run,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Live And Let Die,” “Hey Jude,” and “Let It Be,” as well as an emotional version of “Back in the U.S.S.R.”