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Some Days in the Life

Paul McCartney will issue a memoir titled Each One Believing: On Stage, Off Stage and Backstage in September. The 208-page book will focus on the former Beatle's musings on his experiences during his recent tour legs, and will feature plenty of photographs taken while McCartney performed around the world.
http://www.chroniclebooks.com/Chronicle/servlet/at/go(bookRecord,0811845079)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811845079/ref%3Dnosim/mji-rd/002-5690966-2581668

"Each One Believing" is a revealing, access-all-areas account of life on the road with Paul McCartney. Filled with photographs never before published and insider details, Each One Believing takes you behind the scenes for an exclusive look into a private world. Based on Paul McCartney's most celebrated tour since The Beatles, it weaves Paul's own personal reflections -- along with those of his wife, Heather, his band, and his crew -- together with hundreds of dynamic images by the tour's official photographer, Bill Bernstein, showing both Paul's public appearances and the quiet, one-on-one moments. What drives him to perform? What does it feel like to sing the songs that have touched so many of our lives? This remarkable journey takes us from New York in the days following 9/11, when Paul wrote "Freedom"; across North America, Europe, and Japan; to his historic show in Moscow's Red Square, "because, having written 'Back in the USSR', I wanted to go there and play that."

Poignant and candid, funny and illuminating, "Each One Believing" is a road trip unlike any other. Available in September, 2004.

репетиции в "Куполе", Лондон

см. великолепные фотки Билла Бернстайна, штатного фотографа турне Пола здесь http://altpick.com/spot/bill_bernstein/index.php

http://www.billbernstein.com/tour25.htm

Фото Билла Бернстайна
Три фото из Russia

EACH ONE BELIEVING: EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITION

Featuring images taken from the forthcoming book ‘Each One Believing’; a revealing, access all areas account of life on the road with Paul McCartney in association with Sony Ericsson

November 5th-November 27th
Launch Night - November 4th

Proud Galleries are delighted to announce a unique photographic show that faithfully captures Paul McCartney’s life on the road.

Entitled 'Each One Believing,' the show will comprise of pictures taken throughout the recent two-year tour by photographer Bill Bernstein. Never before has a photographer been allowed such close access to Paul. This show is part of an ongoing collaboration between McCartney and Bernstein – who with Caroline Grimshaw recently set the images into context in Each One Believing: Onstage, Off Stage and Backstage published by Chronicle Books.

Featuring these never before seen images this exclusive show follows McCartney and his band as they re-conquered America and return to the USSR - including the triumphant homecoming performance in Liverpool. Each One Believing will provide an intimate insight into the world of McCartney on tour.

Prints signed by both Paul McCartney and Bill Bernstein, along with collages signed by Caroline Grimshaw, will be for sale in the gallery with all profits from the sales of the prints going towards the Adopt A Minefield charity.
http://www.adoptaminefield.com/

Each One Believing: 5th November – 27th November
Proud Camden,
10 Greenland Street,
NW1 0ND
http://www.proud.co.uk/

http://www.paulmccartney.com/

"Each One Believing"
A photographic journey behind-the-scenes of a Paul McCartney World Tour

BILL BERNSTEIN'S TOUR PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR BOX
Cameras: Nikon D100/D1X digital cameras and digital cards
Lenses: 80-200mm f2.8, 17- 35mm f2.8, 35-70 mm f2.8
Nikon Speedlights (2)
Quantum turbo battery pack
Dyna-lite power pack/two studio flash heads/two umbrellas and stands.
Tripod and monopod
Computers: Macintosh Powerbook and iBook laptops for the road.

Part One

Q: How did you get interested in photography?

Bill Bernstein: I got interested in photography at a pretty young age. My father was a really good amateur photographer and when I was a little kid I remember being in the darkroom with him. He used to put me in charge of agitating chemicals. I'd sit down and rock the film-developing tank with all the chemicals in it. I remember doing that. I was just fascinated with the whole process. You expose the paper and watch it come up in the developer. And to me it was really magic.

I started basically just shooting around. I used to have a 8mm film camera that I made little movies with. When I went to college, I studied graphic arts, so I did graphic design and photography as well. That's how I got interested in it.

Q: What type of photography were you doing when you became a professional?

Bill: I quit my graphic design job that I had for about a year. I just didn't like it. I had been living in New York for most of my life and took some images to the art director of the Village Voice. He sent me out on an assignment that night to photograph Carlos Santana and after that, I started shooting a lot of musicians for the Voice. I shot for about five years for the Voice. During that time I did another book in the '80s called "Night Dancin' "(by Vita Miezitis), a documentation of the disco era. I went into several clubs back then. Shot at Studio 54, Xenon and all those places. I was doing a lot reportage documentary photography.

Q: Avant-garde photography of the pop culture?

Bill: Exactly!

A lot of it was in black-and-white. It wasn't news photography. But it was documentary, you know and I love documentary films. I'm a big fan of documentary films. I love shooting and telling stories with the camera and looking for interesting odd images and that kind of thing.

Later, I started to move more away from that into the portrait realm and got a studio in Soho, which I shared with a couple of photographers. I started shooting a lot of things for Elle Magazine like the portraits at the beginning of the magazine and writers, actors and all that kind of stuff. I worked a little bit for HBO and did some movie set work and a few magazine covers. Very much like portraiture lighting, lots of heavy light. I was shooting with a Hasselblad 2 1/4 camera and other equipment.

Q: Were you doing any professional rock concert photography before you started working for Paul?

Bill: I did a couple of small record covers for independent labels and the Voice stuff. I remember shooting the Talking Heads when they were at CBGBs (a New York night club) and stuff like that. But I had never done tour photography when I met Paul. I was hired originally in 1989 to photograph him at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.

I worked that show, the rehearsals at the Lyceum Theatre and I did some set-ups backstage with Paul and Linda. The next day I showed them the pictures. I remember they said they wanted to see them. So I came back the next day with my little bag of slides... Paul and Linda looked at the shots and were very impressed. They liked them.

I was then called up about a week later and asked if I would be interested in being a tour photographer for them for a little while. I flew to Los Angeles and started with them there and then toured around with them. I think I remember meeting you then in Chicago. I do remember you.

Q: Yes I did meet you at the press conference at the Rosemont Horizon and I remember Paul had a bad cold. He sounded very nasal. A few of the band members had colds and Chris Whitten, Paul's drummer, had bruises all over his face. What happened?

Bill: I can't remember if it was in Chicago or not. It might have been. Wix (Paul Wickens, keyboard player) came down with a massive cold like the flu. I think he was actually in the hospital overnight. Chris Whitten had a bike accident in LA. He was going down the hill and I guess wasn't familiar with the speed bumps they have there. He wasn't paying attention and all of a sudden his bike flipped over and the whole side of his face was completely scraped up. It was bandaged and swollen. I mean he really looked like Frankenstein. It might have been the Chicago show.

Q: It was. That was the first night (December 3, 1989) when the preshow film didn't run because of a technical problem. Paul walked out on stage totally unexpected. When Chris got on the drums everyone thought someone had beat him up.

Bill: Right. Yeah that was the show. Yeah that's funny. It was one of those shows, like the show must go on. I mean, everybody was sick, beaten up and tired, but you know they pulled it off.

You know Paul, to my knowledge, only had to cancelled one show due to illness and that's actually documented in the book.

The show was in Sheffield, England (April 6, 2003) on the last leg of the Back in the World tour. He was really sick the night before 'cause after the shows they always have an after the show party and he could barely talk. I mean he sounded like Don Corleone you know. He showed up the next day to do the sound check, and to try and see if he could sing. When he opened his mouth, nothing came out. I mean nothing. He could not sing.

So they had this doctor flown in from London I think, to look at his throat. He examined Paul and definitely said, "Here's some prescriptions. Go home and don't talk for three days. You cannot go on tonight."

I have this great picture. I think it's a great picture anyway, which was shot through the curtains of the dressing room when Paul was being told that he could not go on that night. It was the first time in his entire career that he couldn't perform because he was sick and on the way out of the venue he made a little drawing that said, "Sorry." As he was leaving on the bus he held it up and I snapped a picture of that too. (Note: The concert was rescheduled for May 29, 2003)

That was well documented at that particular time. That's the only time in his entire career that I know of when he cancelled.

How many performances? Like 3,000 performances? You know when you think about the Beatles, they performed almost every night for a year, so that's pretty amazing.

Paul hated the whole concept of not being able to perform. You can see it in that picture too. The look on his face was like, "Oh my God! I actually can't perform tonight." I mean there's a little bit of shock in his expression.

It basically comes down to the fact that he's human you know. And people get sick. And the amazing thing is that it's the only time he's ever had to cancel. He's as susceptible to the flu and colds as anybody else is, you know.

Paul really, really is a person who loves to perform, as you know. You've probably been to sound checks. I mean he's performing as hard at the sound checks as he is during the show. He's waving to the audience and singing as hard as he can.

He loves to perform and really loves the fans and understands the concept of being a fan. He knows you're paying a lot of money to see a performance of somebody of who you really like and he can't just sort of cancel and say, "Tough luck, I couldn't make it tonight." He really understands that. People paid their hard earned money to see him and they're expecting a great show. He hasn't forgotten that part of himself that was once a fan. He's not full of himself in that way like some performers are.

Q: Which photo in the book is your favorite?

Bill: I think my favorite photo is the last one in the book. It's one of my favorite photos. The concert shot from behind with the two spotlights. I love that shot for a lot of reasons. It's really up close. You can just about touch him in that picture. It's just a great moment.

I think it was just after "Let It Be." He's still kind of looking down at the piano, but has his arm stretched out acknowledging the audience. The thing about it, all you see is him. You don't see the audience. And it's like, "THERE HE IS ON STAGE!" and he's really comfortable there. The man has been performing since the age of 14 or 15? Thousands of performances and he's really at home on stage.

There he is with the piano acknowledging this audience, which you can't see, but they're out there. There are thousands of people out there screaming their heads off. It's just a sea of blackness, so there is a sort of mystery in that picture. You know, you don't see the fans, but you know they're there. It's one of my favorite pictures.

Also, I like the detail in it. It's great. The edge lighting is great and I like the edge lighting on his eyelash. You know I love that. He's got long eyelashes. That's unmistakably Paul McCartney there you know. I just like that shot a lot.

Q: Paul once invited me to a private party in London. Everyone there was either family or employees. To my surprise, most people ignored him unless he was talking to them. Fans can't image Paul McCartney walking around socializing and nobody is fainting dead away or paying attention to him. When Paul McCartney is your boss, how do you get used to that?

Bill: [Laughing] That's funny! Yeah, you kind of get used to him being around. For a while there, you're overwhelmed by the fact that you're with him. At least I was. I think most people are. For a certain period of time you can't ignore the fact that he is who he is. As you talk to him you can't help but think to yourself, "I can't believe that I'm actually talking to PAUL McCARTNEY!"

It takes a while to get over that. But you do. You get over it because you have a job to do and because you kind of get used to it. But even now sometimes I still have that feeling like, "How cool is this? HE'S MY BOSS!" But I consider him a guy I really know and he knows me and I think, "WOW! That's so cool!" That is just so cool because he is genuinely a great guy. And I learned a lot from him too about things, about business, about life, about how to deal with people. He's a good role model in a lot ways, you know. But you do get over it to some extent.

There's also another aspect to what you're talking about, like at a big party where people really weren't paying attention to him. That's because there's a part of you that wants to just leave him alone. Not that you're not aware that he's there, but you just don't want to be in his face. You want to just let the man enjoy his party and let him have a good time I think most people are totally aware of his presence when he's around.

Q: He has an aura around him.

Bill: He has a huge aura. It's so funny, because I usually get to the venue a couple of hours before he does and I can always tell when he's arrived. Even if I'm at the other end of the arena, there's a vibe in the place.

Q: It's like electricity!

Bill: Exactly. It's like. "Uh, oh! He's HERE!" He's got a great energy and a great aura.

Q: And he's very animated too.

Bill: He's very animated. When I'm shooting him with my lighting setup, I always prepare for the fact that I can start him in one place and after five frames he's going to move somewhere else. Who knows where he will be. I got to set my lights in a way so he can move around a lot. He's not one for standing still.

Q: One of my favorite photos in the book is Paul goofing around with the contortionist backstage. How did that come about?

Bill: Oh, yeah. Isn't that funny?

Q: He's trying to mimic what she is doing.

Bill: He's trying to put his leg behind his head. It was also one of those shots. We were standing there and I had my camera around my neck. We were all watching the contortionist and all of a sudden he picked up his foot for like a split second and it was all I could do to get my camera in my hand, focus it and push the shutter. It happened in a split second. So it's one of those lucky shots you know. You got to be ready.

Q: He's unpredictable.

Bill: He's totally unpredictable.

Q: Paul calls you the "bull on the wall" rather than the "fly on the wall." How come about?

Bill: Yes, yes. [Laughs] There was a time when I was photographing him in his dressing room and I was sneaking around very quietly. There were poles holding draped curtains to cover the walls. As I was sneaking around the room taking pictures, being really quiet and trying to be the 'fly on the wall,' I got my foot caught on one of the curtains. Like a chain reaction it started pulling one curtain down and then another and another. Pretty soon all the curtains were just tenuously hanging, and there I was. I was caught you know. There was no doubt that Bill had done this. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing and cracked up. I was busted! I was caught. Somebody said, "Bill is the fly on the wall." Paul remarked, "More like the BULL on the wall." So that kind of stuck. I got labeled. [Laughs]

Contortion

Throat doctor

Piano point

PAUL MCCARTNEY - EACH ONE BELIEVING & LIVERPOOL ORATORIO OUT TODAY!

Double release for Paul with new book and new improved DVD

Each One Believing - a revealing, access-all-areas account of life on the road with Paul McCartney. Candid and illuminating, this rock & roll road book explores a previously private world on the trek - Paul McCartney's most successful and celebrated tour since The Beatles.

The book is intimately illustrated with unseen photography allowed onstage, offstage, and backstage - dynamic images taken by the tour's official photographer, Bill Bernstein, that haven't been seen elsewhere. The story is told through the first-person narration of Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather, and his band and crew, and makes for funny, poignant, and engaging reading. Filled with photographs, anecdotes, and Paul McCartney's personal behind-the-scenes account, this book is an exciting glimpse into Paul's life "on the road." Everyone wonders what it is like to be a rock star on tour. With this book readers will be transported into the world of screaming fans and late night concerts as Paul and his entourage perform around the world.

This is the inside story of the road trip that rocked the world and an up-close perspective of Paul McCartney.

Today also sees the launch of the Each One Believing Exhibition featuring images taken from the forthcoming Each One Believing book.

Entitled 'Each One Believing,' the show will comprise of pictures taken throughout the recent two-year tour by photographer Bill Bernstein. Never before has a photographer been allowed such close access to Paul. This show is part of an ongoing collaboration between McCartney and Bernstein – who with Caroline Grimshaw recently set the images into context in Each One Believing: Onstage, Off Stage and Backstage published by Chronicle Books.

Each One Believing:
5th November – 27th November
Proud Camden, 10 Greenland Street, NW1 0ND
www.proud.co.uk

Go to www.paulmccartneyshop.com to buy Each One Believing.

November 11, 2004 -- Amazon.com

Paul McCartney has recorded an audio message to promote his book on Amazon.com

Hello Amazon customers, Paul McCartney here.

I'm pleased to introduce you to my new book, "Each One Believing". I'm really proud of the way it turned out. I think it gives me a great sense of excitement and feeling of being on tour.

There were so many amazing things about our last tour, the historic venues that we played, the inspiring crowds, and working with amazing people to make each show special and unique.

We played some fantastic venues and one of my favourite memories was playing the Coliseum in Rome. The first night we played was inside where all the Christians and lions did their thing. And then the second night, it was outside, where we did a free show for the people of Rome and there was about 500,000 people there I think, and boy we had a fantastic night - a mile of people stretching down the road.

So I think you'll find Each One Believing gives a great access all areas account of the tour experience, on-stage, off-stage and backstage.

Cheers!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811845079/ref=ase_paulmccartnphoto/103-2442534-...

Достала себе эту книгу совершенно немыслимым путём! Когда держу её, даже руки немного дрожат, как будто это кусочек живой истории. Московскому концерту посвящено всего пять разворотов, и на одном из них застветился Лемон Леннон!
Как-то сразу почувствовался колорит нашей страны: афиша концерта посреди леса, скучающие милиционеры с напряжёнными лицами, герб СССР на заднем плане, идущий меж зрителей Путин и восторженно смотрящая на него девочка... А на суперобложке на одной из фотографий тоже запечатлён российский страж правопорядка. Красота! :)

Удивительная фотография!

(в большом формате действительно смотрится классно)

Разворот с Лемоном (слева внизу) и строем солдатиков, сквозь который было ой как нелегко видеть Человека в красной майке! :)

На одной из общих фотографий виднеется плакат "See you in Moscow" (видимо, с одного из предшествовавших концертов). Может, кто-нибудь знает автора? :)

Ульян, это и есть ТА САМАЯ книга?

Она! Добралась до меня неделю назад!

Ульянка Очень хорошее вото(Макка за роялем) Спасибо.

Sweet Little Queen XIII
И можно поворачивать по вкусу ;)

Оказывается, после московского концерта (дня через три) Макку настигла простуда, в результате чего он потерял голос и даже был вынужден изъясняться в письменной форме. На фотографии, в книге, он держит листок с нарисованным грустным человечком. Кажется, эту картинку показывали по ТВ, когда после первосентябрьской трагедии 2004 года стало известно о намерениях Пола посвятить песню этому событию. Но если приглядеться, то там на горло человечка направлены две стрелочки со знаками восклицания - "больно!"

Мне кажется, что Макка терял голос в апреле 2003.Из-за этого отменили концерт в Шефилде.
Вот тут вот об этом написано. Не та ли это фотграфия?
https://www.beatles.ru/news/news.asp?news_id=547

Фотография немного другая, но рисунок тот же (Макке понравилось с ним позировать ;) или просто неоднократно пришлось объяснять свое состояние). А с датой я действительно ошиблась. В книге написано, что это шоу было перенесено на 29-е мая, а должно было состояться в начале апреля.

March 23, 2005 -- Paulmccartney.com

'EACH ONE BELIEVING' ART PRINTS NOW IN ONLINE STORE

Six very special new items have just been added to the PM.com shop. Three collages and three prints all using photos taken by official tour photographer Bill Bernstein have been produced to celebrate Paul's recent tour's 'Back In The World' and '04 Summer'.

These fantastic Art Prints are reproduced from Paul McCartney's recent exhibition which launched the tour book 'Each One Believing'. They are high quality digital photographic light-jet prints on crystal archival paper and feature a Paul McCartney signature scanned on to show their authenticity.

The image size is 10 x 8 inches and there is a 2 inch border making the print ideal for framing.

The six prints are entitled as follows; £100 ($192) each

'Red Square At Night' - photograph by Bill Bernstein, taken in Moscow on 24th May 2003.

'Red Square Reflection' - photograph by Bill Bernstein, taken in Moscow on 24th May 2003.

'Piano Point' - photograph by Bill Bernstein, taken in Paris on 25th March 2003.

'Dream Tonight 2004' - collage by Caroline Grimshaw, photographs by Bill Bernstein.

'Each One 2004' - collage by Caroline Grimshaw, photographs by Bill Bernstein.

'Shine On 2004' - collage by Caroline Grimshaw, photographs by Bill Bernstein.

Go to www.paulmccartneyshop.com for more information and to view the prints.
http://www.paulmccartneyshop.com/mall/departmentpage.cfm?store=PMEn

Рассылка http://www.paulmccartney.com/ :

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PAUL McCARTNEY - EACH ONE BELIEVING: THE TOUR

Exclusive Traveling Photo Exhibition Featuring Images Taken From Each One Believing, The Access-All-Areas Book Of Life On The Road With Paul McCartney

Exhibit Set To Hit Cities Across America In ‘06

Proud Galleries is delighted to announce the 2006 exhibition tour of a unique photographic show that faithfully captures Paul McCartney’s life on the road. Based upon the book Each One Believing: Onstage, Off Stage and Backstage, published by Chronicle Books, the show is comprised of over 40 pictures taken by photographer Bill Bernstein over the course of the most successful tour of McCartney’s post-Beatles career.

The tour is set to visit cities across the United States throughout 2006, beginning with the March 4th opening of Paul McCartney’s Each One Believing: The Tour, at San Diego’s Morrison Gallery. Each exhibit is slated to run from three weeks to two months in order to give fans the opportunity to view the show firsthand. Other locations include Inspire Fine Art in Chicago, Walnut Street Gallery outside of Denver and Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. The original exhibition opened to both public and critical acclaim last autumn at the Proud Galleries in London.

'Each One Believing: The Tour,' illustrates McCartney’s first solo tour in nearly a decade and includes images taken onstage and backstage during a journey which saw sold-out concert performances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Rome, Moscow and more. Poignant and candid, funny and illuminating, this is a road trip with Paul McCartney like no other.

Bernstein’s lens captures the excitement evoked by the grand lighting of stage sets; the heightened energy of the band in mid-song; and the intimate shots of Paul alone playing at his ‘Magic Piano” or onstage with his beloved Hofner guitar.

“The response that ‘Each One Believing’ has received has been overwhelming,” said McCartney. “Everywhere we go people tell us how much they enjoy the unique balance between the engaging photographs and first-hand written accounts and events from the tour. It seemed a natural when we were approached to put the exhibit on the road and so we did.”

Photographer Bill Bernstein had unprecedented on stage, off stage, and back stage access providing dynamic images both of Paul’s public appearances and the quiet one-on-one moments. Exhibition and sale prints will be signed by both McCartney and Bernstein.

Paul McCartney: Each One Believing Tour

San Diego - Morrison Hotel Gallery - March 4th – April 7th
San Francisco - San Francisco Art Exchange - April/May
Portland - Photographic Image - June 1st-June 25th
Seattle - Benham Gallery - July
Los Angeles - Stephen Cohen Gallery - August
Denver - Walnut Street Gallery - September 7th – November 2nd
Chicago - Inspire Fine Art - November 17th – December 31st

Each One Believing: Onstage, Off Stage and Backstage and exclusive prints are now available to buy in the paulmccartney.com Online Shop