MaccaSpan Forum CRASH

MaccaSpan Forum CRASH

Not sure what is happening, but the MaccaSpan Forum has gone crazy!!!
IT has shut down and win't coming back.

LUCKY WE HAVE A SPARE!!! THE OLD FORUM!

MaccaSpan MP3 Player

The NEW MaccaSpan MP3 Player

The MaccaSpan MP3 player is now running. You can find it by going to MaccaSpan.com
Now you can listen to your favorite Macca obscure tracks anytime you want! And because The MaccaSpan MP3 player files are located on the MaccaSpan server, that means all you need is a computer and an internet connection and you can listen to the MaccaSpan MP3 player anywhere you want!

NEW DVD - The Space Within Us

THE SPACE WITHIN US - THE NEW DVD

In 2005, rock legend Paul McCartney crossed America with his record-breaking, sold out U.S. tour. Now, harnessing the power of more than 25 hi-definition cameras and the thunder of 5.1 digital surround sound, PAUL McCARTNEY: THE SPACE WITHIN US captures this epic experience on DVD. Better than a front row seat, this feature-length concert film takes viewers onto the stage and beyond, capturing Paul’s out of this world performance--which was beamed to the astronauts aboard the Mir space station who wake up to some "English Tea" with paul and the band through a live feed from the tour. PAUL McCARTNEY: THE SPACE WITHIN US FEATURES LIVE PERFORMANCES OF NEARLY 30 HITS INCLUDING: Magical Mystery Tour / Flaming Pie / Maybe I’m Amazed / Eleanor Rigby / Let Me Roll It / Drive My Car / Got To Get You Into My Life / Till THere Was You / I Will / Fine Line / Good Day Sunshine / Fixing a Hole / Hey Jude / Too Many People / Penny Lane / English Tea / I’ve Got a Feeling / Follow Me / Jenny Wren / Helter Skelter / Yesterday / Get Back DVD Features: "Paul’s World" Featurette; Meet the Band Interviews; Song Selections; Liner Notes Introduction by Cameron CroweRelease Date: Nov.7 2006


Canadians http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000H5U5V2/sr=1-8/qid=1155380817/ref=sr_1_8/702-3107055-6688851?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Americans http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H5U5V2/sr=1-3/qid=1155380924/ref=sr_1_3/103-8419244-5090230?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Didn't find a link for the UK

Live 8 Cool Pics - Mike McCartney

LIVE 8 COOL PICS - MIKE McCARTNEY - 18.08.2006


Mike McCartney’s LIVE8 Cool Picsa) BACKGROUNDDURING the summer of 2005 Mike McCartney was present at the main UK venue for the LIVE8 concert in Hyde Park in London. He was a guest of his brother Sir Paul McCartney and the show’s organiser and founder Sir Bob Geldof.Throughout the course of the event Mike took a series of private and quite personal photographs of the performers, the celebrities and other activities that took place over the day. They have formed a remarkable, if very intimate, photo diary of the event. Most of Mike’s pictures are unique from the point of view that they were taken from within the ‘golden areas’ – those behind the scenes that were not accessible to the majority of press and official public relations photographers, and certainly no member of the public was able to visit them.In many ways they are an astonishing and unusual ‘unofficial’ record of the day’s activities, particularly considering Mike’s special relationship with so many of the celebrities. He was able through those friendships and close links to photograph them at their ease and in ‘more natural poses’ as they took part in what is regarded as the most astonishing showbiz gathering so far into this 21st Century.Now many of his wonderful images are to be published in a special ‘one off’ photo-diary book that records and celebrates this particular aspect of LIVE8. A special limited edition of 1,000 copies is to be published by the Wirral based firm of Cities500 International Publishers, who also published Mike’s earlier photographic anthology: Mike McCartney’s Liverpool Life.The luxurious LIVE 8 book has the endorsement and full support of both the event’s creator Sir Bob Geldof and Sir Paul McCartney, both of whom have written personal forewords. 1000" target=_blank>Click here to purchase LIVE8 Cool Pics* Extracts from the ForewordsPaul McCartney – “Live8 was one of the greatest days of the year, possibly the decade. Bob Geldof telephoned me, explained the idea of Making Poverty History and aiming the concert at the G8 conference. I was sold. Bob’s a great salesman. Luckily, my brother Mike was there with his trusty camera to record the day and capture many of the exciting backstage happenings. This book is made from a selection of those pictures and he and I are proud to have been there together and to have been a part of this momentous event.”Bob Geldolf – “God those bloody McCartneys. You ask one of them to pitch up - the musical genius one, and next minute the photographers, designers, guitarists, activists, mothers, babies, sisters, aunties, uncles and the rest all come and get stuck in. There must be something in that Liverpool mud.Here's the brother’s bit. The photographer, poet, hit songwriter one. He who captured perfectly a coming moment and a different age just before it happened with his Box Brownie or whatever. Who felt something long before everyone else. Who could hear the sound of it being born downstairs in the sitting room long before everyone else. And he shot it. Here he's at it again with his Box Brownie digital. Taking shots of maybe another age being born.”b) ABOUT THE BOOK• The book in the first instance is in reality an additional fundraiser for Sir Bob’s charity and linked to the LIVE8 theme ‘Make Poverty History’.• Cities500 - under the separate imprint of Woodland Publishing - is producing 1000 limited edition copies of the book.• The aim is to commemorate and celebrate the LIVE8 event one year on – hence Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Bob Geldof have endorsed Mike McCartney’s concept of the book. He has worked in collaboration with and Cities599 to make available in book form those fabulous yet informal photographs taken behind the scenes during that remarkable day.• The book helps to re-focus the attention of the world back to that G8 meeting in Edinburgh and the LIVE8 concerts that highlighted the plight of the hungry, disposed and needy of Africa some 20 years after the original LIVE AID concert.• We believe it is a perfect opportunity to support the ethos behind the LIVE8 concept as well as being an ideal opportunity to further the largely philanthropic work of the musicians and others throughout show business: those who helped draw the world’s attention to the desperate plight of Third World countries.• The book is to be officially launched by the Liverpool Capital of Culture Company on June 29th (2006).c) PEOPLE WHO APPEAR IN THE BOOKSir Paul McCartney, Sir Bob Geldof, Bono and U2, Brad Pitt, Sting, Jeremy Clarkson, The creators of Little Britain – Matt Lucas and David Walliams, Kofi Anan, Chris Martin, John MacInroe, Peter Kay, Harvey Goldsmith, Slash (ex Guns N' Roses), Madonna, Richard Curtis, Killers, Peter Blake, Sir Ian McKellen, Joss Stone, The Scissor Sisters, Bill Gates, Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason and David Gilmour – with his family - and, of course, one of the seminal band’s founder members, the inimitable Roger Waters, along with George Michael and Fran Healy from Travis.

Press Release - ECCE COR MEUM

PRESS RELEASE - 'ECCE COR MEUM - 31.07.2006
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Paul McCartney To Release New Classical Work ‘Ecce Cor Meum’Release Date: 25th September 2006Paul McCartney releases his new full-length work of classical music Ecce Cor Meum through EMI Classics on 25th September 2006. Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart) is Paul’s fourth classical album since his first released in 1991, The Liverpool Oratorio.Ecce Cor Meum has been more than eight years in the making and its origins follow in the historic tradition of composers that have been commissioned to write music for the world-renowned Magdalen College Oxford. Paul was specially invited by Anthony Smith (President of Magdalen College 1998 – 2005) to compose something to set the seal on a new concert hall for the college. His hope was for ‘a choral piece which could be sung by young people the world over in the same way that Handel’s Messiah is’. Ecce Cor Meum, an Oratorio in four movements, is scored for choir and orchestra. The text combines both English and to a lesser degree, Latin. Paul’s knowledge of Latin comes from his classical education at The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, where he had learnt three languages by the time he was 12. Paul says: “Not all of this has been retained over the years as my path went in other directions, but my love of language remains, and as Latin is known and sung by choirs all over the world, I felt it would be appropriate to use at times during the piece.”Like many great composers Paul, started with the music and then looked for a subject that fits. Several ideas for lyrics occurred to him, but they only gelled when he took part in a concert of John Tavener’s music in the Church of St Ignatius Loyola in New York. “While I was waiting to do my bit, I was looking around the church and I saw a statue, and underneath it was written ‘Ecce Cor Meum’. I had done some Latin at school and I always had a fondness for it. So I worked it out. I believe it means Behold My Heart”.In November 2001, the first version of Ecce Cor Meum was given its first preview performance by the Magdalen College Choir, which was conducted by Bill Ives at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. This was a great learning experience for Paul. “Eventually I made it all come together through correcting a lot of misapprehensions – a lot was learned before the Sheldonian performance, but a lot of it was learned afterwards. An experienced choral composer knows that children can’t be given huge sustained passages; they don’t have the energy and the stamina. At the Sheldonian there was some quite hard stuff that I didn’t realise because I’d done it on the synthesiser (which has endless stamina!), but during that first performance, the solo treble couldn’t come on for the second half – I think I’d used him up in the first half! These are things that people either learn because they are taught them immediately at the first lesson or you learn through the years, so it was good to go through the piece a lot of times, and we took out huge choral sections and gave them to the orchestra. If it had been a Beatles song I would have known how to do it. But this was a completely different ball game.”Produced by John Fraser, Ecce Cor Meum was recorded this year at the legendary Abbey Road Studios between March 13th and 17th. It was performed by EMI artist Kate Royal (soprano); The Boys of King’s College Choir, Cambridge; The Boys Of Magdalen College Choir, Oxford and The Academy Of St Martin In The Fields conducted by Gavin Greenway.