Tripping the Live Fantastic is Paul McCartney's first official live album and his first release of concert material since Wings' 1976 Wings over America live package. It was released in 1990 as triple LP, double cassette and double CD. Tripping the Live Fantastic reached #16 in the UK and #26 in the US. It was also simultaneously released in an abridged form, entitled Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights!.
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A document of the huge success of The Paul McCartney World...
Tripping the Live Fantastic is Paul McCartney's first official live album and his first release of concert material since Wings' 1976 Wings over America live package. It was released in 1990 as triple LP, double cassette and double CD. Tripping the Live Fantastic reached #16 in the UK and #26 in the US. It was also simultaneously released in an abridged form, entitled Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights!.
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A document of the huge success of The Paul McCartney World Tour, Tripping the Live Fantastic encompasses McCartney's entire musical career from his famed Beatles hits to his recent hit album, Flowers in the Dirt, while also including some unique covers. Interspersed throughout the package are occasional soundcheck recordings as well. The title is an allusion to the phrase "tripping the light fantastic", meaning to dance or move to musical accompaniment, originally from the poem L'Allegro by John Milton.
Although some critics have described the album as being overly polished and slick, Tripping the Live Fantastic is still considered a generous and enjoyable memento from McCartney's first world tour in over a decade.[citation needed]
Despite reversing the famed Lennon/McCartney credits on Wings over America, McCartney left the credits for his Beatles songs contained on Tripping the Live Fantastic in their original form.
Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights!
Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights! is an abridged version of the double CD Tripping the Live Fantastic by Paul McCartney. Released in 1990, both packages document McCartney's highly successful Paul McCartney World Tour of 1989-1990.
Cutting out all of the soundcheck recordings and leaving merely the concert highlights (hence the album's title), this set is notable for the exclusive inclusion of "All My Trials", not found on the more complete Tripping the Live Fantastic set or on the US version, where it was replaced by "Put It There".
Not charting at all in the UK, Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights! reached #141 in the US on the Billboard 200 and, proving to be a sustained seller, went platinum, whereas the original set, which reached #26, failed to even go gold.
Live album by Paul McCartney
Released29 October 1990
Recorded26 September 1989 -
30 June 1990
GenreRock
Length2:18:20
LabelParlophone/EMI
ProducerPaul McCartney,
Bob Clearmountain,
and Peter Henderson
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