Abe Laboriel, Jr drums, percussion, backing vocals Brian Ray guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney vocals, bass guitar, guitars, piano Rusty Anderson guitars, backing vocals Paul 'Wix' Wickens keyboards, backing vocals, programming

"Back In The World": complete track list
CD1	CD2
Hello Goodbye   (3:46) Jet   (4:03) All My Loving   (2:09) Getting Better   (3:10) Coming Up   (3:26) Let Me Roll It   (4:24) Lonely Road   (3:12) Driving Rain   (3:11) Your Loving Flame   (3:29) Blackbird   (2:30) Every Night   (2:51) We Can Work It Out   (2:30) Mother Nature's Son   (2:11) Carry That Weight   (2:11) The Fool On The Hill   (3:09) Here Today   (2:28) Something   (2:33)	Eleanor Rigby   (2:17) Here, There And Everywhere   (2:26) Calico Skies Michelle Band On The Run   (5:00) Back In The USSR   (2:56) Maybe I'm Amazed   (4:49) Let'em In My Love   (4:03) She's Leaving Home Can't Buy Me Love   (2:09) Live And Let Die   (3:05) Let It Be   (3:58) Hey Jude   (7:01) The Long And Winding Road   (3:31) Lady Madonna   (2:21) I Saw Her Standing There   (3:08) Yesterday   (2:08) Sgt. Pepper's/The End   (4:40)

 

"Back In The World": reviews from

Reviewer: Jerry McCulley,Amazon.co.uk

Back in the World is a collection of Paul McCartney's performances from his 2002 world tour. Critics may quibble over the creative roller coaster that's been Sir Paul's post-Beatles solo career, but few can deny his status as one of rock's most buoyant live performers and consistent crowd pleasers. That drive to stake his claim onstage (said to be one of the factors that drove the Fabs to dissolution) energises this otherwise largely backward-looking collection; fully two-thirds of the double-disc's 35 tracks hail from the Beatles catalogue, with the rest slanted toward early solo-career standouts such as "Jet", "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "My Love". But Macca and his focused backing quartet deliver them with a punchy edge and sense of abandon that's largely MIA on previous McCartney live releases. Other than pausing for tributes to his fallen comrades ("Here Today", a solo acoustic paean to John Lennon followed by a touching, ukulele-backed nod to George Harrison with "Something"), it's largely a rollicking career retrospective from a musician whose restless drive to perform invests this collection with something more than mere nostalgia. The singer who invoked Bach at 22 may still refuse to act his age, but here that's not a bad thing at all.

Amazing... Truly amazing.., 7 November, 2003

Reviewer: Bob Bones from Norfolk United Kingdom. I love my music from Beatles to Zappa and a lot more in between. This album is amazing. It is what every Beatle fan wanted to hear thirty years ago, but don't compare with what could of been. Listen to this without prejudice.. It stirs the emotions as the memories come flooding back. This is the first Paul Mac album I have ever bought. I am a Lennon fan! This album highlights the talents of the man, and the band.. and highlights how I have had my head in the sand.. Brilliant entertainment...

Bit of a masterpiece..., 18 August, 2003

Reviewer: guyclapperton from South Norwood, London United Kingdom. A good album to play to the 'Lennon was better' contingent - this really shows Paul's songs at their best. Back in the USSR and Live and Let Die are as blistering as you might expect (pity Birthday, which he played on my birthday at Earl's Court, wasn't on it) and so is Live and Let Die, as might be expected. The unexpected bonus is how many of the solo songs sound really good as well; it makes you appreciate that they were written for live performance rather than studio or home consumption. Jet, Band on the Run and others are vastly better than the originals and make this a worthwhile buy by themselves.