Music Review

Back in the U.S.: Live 2002 (2002)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Nov 26, 2002; Lead Performance: Paul McCartney

The cute coot still works hard: This double-disc memento finds McCartney-plus-four-piece putting as much vigor into drivel like ''C Moon'' as the sounds-great-in-a-stadium ''Jet.'' A rockabilly ''I Saw Her Standing There''? To paraphrase: Wooooo! But the acoustic interlude is excruciating (''Carry That Weight'' as a torch ballad). And trying to reproduce a studio-bound creation like ''Eleanor Rigby'' is, like much recent Macca music, misguided.

Originally posted Nov 29, 2002 Published in issue #684 Nov 29, 2002 Order article reprints

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