Live in Los Angeles (Paul McCartney album)

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Live in Los Angeles
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Cover for Live in Los Angeles released by The Mail on Sunday
Live album by
Released17 January 2010
Recorded27 June 2007
Genre Rock
Length42:02
Label MPL Communications
Producer Darrell Thorp (engineer)
David Kahne (mixing)
Bob Ludwig (mastering)
Paul McCartney chronology
Good Evening New York City
(2009)
Live in Los Angeles
(2010)
Ocean's Kingdom
(2011)

Live in Los Angeles is a promotional live album by Paul McCartney recorded during a secret performance on 27 June 2007 at Amoeba Music in Hollywood, California. [1] The album was released only in the United Kingdom and Ireland through a special promotion run by The Mail on Sunday and the Irish Sunday Mail. [2]

Contents

Four of the album's twelve tracks (2, 4, 5, and 12) were previously released on McCartney's 2007 EP, Amoeba's Secret , while track 3 was previously released as b-side to "Ever Present Past" single.

On 16 November 2012, the Paul McCartney website released an extended version of the Amoeba show titled Live in Los Angeles – The Extended Set free to "premium" members of the website, adding the songs "Nod Your Head" and "House of Wax" to the tracklisting, the latter also being a b-side to "Ever Present Past" single. [3]

All the tracks from the album later appeared on the 2019 live album Amoeba Gig in a remixed form. [4]

Track listing

Live in Los Angeles standard edition

  1. "Drive My Car" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:33
  2. "Only Mama Knows" (McCartney) – 3:54
  3. "Dance Tonight" (McCartney) – 3:09
  4. "C Moon" (McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 3:22
  5. "That Was Me" (McCartney) – 3:02
  6. "Blackbird" (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:37
  7. "Here Today" (McCartney) – 2:38
  8. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:59
  9. "Get Back" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:53
  10. "Hey Jude" (Lennon, McCartney) – 7:08
  11. "Lady Madonna" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:12
  12. "I Saw Her Standing There" (McCartney, Lennon) – 3:25

Live in Los Angeles – The Extended Set edition

Live in Los Angeles – The Extended Set
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Drive My Car" Lennon–McCartney 2:33
2."Only Mama Knows" Paul McCartney 3:54
3."Dance Tonight"P. McCartney3:10
4."C Moon"P. McCartney, Linda McCartney 3:22
5."That Was Me"P. McCartney3:02
6."Blackbird"Lennon–McCartney2:37
7."Here Today"P. McCartney2:34
8."Back in the U.S.S.R."Lennon–McCartney3:02
9."Nod Your Head"P. McCartney1:20
10."House of Wax"P. McCartney5:08
11."Get Back"Lennon–McCartney3:52
12."Hey Jude"Lennon–McCartney7:09
13."Lady Madonna"Lennon–McCartney3:07
14."I Saw Her Standing There"Lennon–McCartney3:33
Total length:48:15

Personnel

Notes

  1. "Live In Los Angeles - Paul McCartney". MPL Communications. 17 January 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  2. "Efemérides de la música popular, 16 de enero". 16 January 2021.
  3. Sinclair, Paul (16 November 2012). "Paul McCartney / Live In Los Angeles The Extended Set". Super Deluxe Edition. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  4. "Paul Is Live: McCartney Premieres "Amoeba Gig," Reissues Classic Live Sets on CD and LP". 24 May 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.

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