Paul McCartney -In Red Square Moscow 2003 dvd The Beatles

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On May the 24th of 2003 Paul McCartney took the stage inMoscow´s Red Square and proceeded to rock the socks off of VladimirPutin and 20,000 other Russians. The show was the first time aBeatle had ever set foot in or played in Russia. During Soviet era,The Beatles and other popular artists from the US and Europe werebanned and treated as Western propaganda. And by all reasonablemeasures, The Beatles were Western propaganda, whether or not theywanted to be. Russian rocker Sasha Lipnitsky claimed that TheBeatles were the "first hole in the iron curtain" and that theirmusic had introduced many Soviets to the idea of democracy. Whengovernment restrictions on Western music were tightened, it onlyinspired youths in the Soviet Union to go to even greater lengthsto obtain the music they so coveted. Throughout the course of theCold War many Soviets would spend a lot of their hard earned money,sometimes up to half of their monthly income, to obtain a Beatlesrecord that they would then copy onto modified x-ray film for theirfriends. In many ways the influence of a seemingly imminent nuclearwar was dwarfed by the power of rock n´ roll. So when PaulMcCartney finally came to Moscow in 2003 it was a big deal. Fromthe first note of the historic concert, Russians young and oldscreamed, laughed, cried, and sang every lyric to every song in aunanimous display of joy that would make one think they had justachieved world peace. Seriously, the looks on their faces were thedefinition of pure, unbridled euphoria. Watch Paul and his band ripthrough Back In The USSR and for 15 seconds you can catch a glimpseof Vladimir Putin attempting not to smile like a child who just gotall the toys he wanted for Christmas. Putting all the politicsaside for a moment, the spectacle of Paul McCartney leading over20,000 Russians through Back In The USSR is fucking awesome.Vladimir Putin´s covert Beatles fanboy status and his support forthe 2003 Red Square concert, despite over 100 Russian statedeputies protesting it, shows us that certain things, like music,are so universal that even iron-willed, James Bond villain-esquedictators embrace them. The legacy of The Beatles in the ex-EasternBloc is so strong that to this day streets named after VladimirLenin are ocassionally renamed after John Lennon. One town inUkraine even renamed its town center formally known as SovietSquare to John Lennon Square. The Soviets may not have lasted, butThe Beatles certainly have. So when you watch and enjoy thisconcert then think that at exactly the same time, in a world miredwith violence, political strife, and bad music, there´s a goodchance that Vladimir Putin is dancing around the Kremlin in aSergeant Pepper´s costume while singing along to Hey Jude.

Track list:
1. Show Open
2. Hello Goodbye
3. Jet
4. All My Loving
5. Getting Better
6. Let Me Roll It
7. Lonely Road
8. Your Loving Flame
9. Blackbird
10. Every Night
11. We Can Work It Out
12. You Never Give Me Your Money / Carry That Weight
13. Fool On The Hill
14. Here Today
15. Something
16. Eleanor Rigby
17. Here, There And Everywhere
18. Ive Just Seen A Face
19. Calico Skies
20. Two Of Us
21. Michelle
22. Band On The Run
23. Back In The USSR
24. Maybe Im Amazed
25. Let Em In
26. My Love
27. She´s Leaving Home
28. Can´t Buy Me Love
29. Birthday
30. Live And Let Die
31. Let It Be
32. Hey Jude
33. The Long And Winding Road
34. Lady Madonna
35. I Saw Her Standing There
36. Yesterday
37. Back In The USSR (Reprise)
38. Sgt.Pepper´s Lonely Heart Club Band / The End
39. Photo Gallery

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