Good Evening New York City album artwork – Paul McCartneyRecorded: 17, 18, 21 July 2009
Producer: Paul McCartney

Released: 14 December 2009 (UK), 17 November 2009 (US)

Paul McCartney: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, mandolin, ukulele
Rusty Anderson: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Brian Ray: vocals, electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, bass guitar
Paul 'Wix' Wickens: vocals, keyboards, electric guitar, accordion, harmonica, percussion
Abe Laboriel Jr: vocals, drums, percussion
Billy Joel: vocals, piano

Tracklisting:
Drive My Car
Jet
Only Mama Knows
Flaming Pie
Got To Get You Into My Life
Let Me Roll It
Highway
The Long And Winding Road
My Love
Blackbird
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Calico Skies
Mrs Vandebilt
Eleanor Rigby
Sing The Changes
Band On The Run
Back In The USSR
I'm Down
Something
I've Got A Feeling
Paperback Writer
A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance
Let It Be
Live And Let Die
Hey Jude
Day Tripper
Lady Madonna
I Saw Her Standing There
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Get Back
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/The End

Paul McCartney's seventh post-Beatles live album was a CD/DVD set recorded over three nights at New York's Citi Field.

More than 180,000 tickets were sold for the concerts just hours after the shows were announced. McCartney was the first musician to perform at the Citi Field stadium, home to the New York Mets baseball team. Citi Field was the successor to Shea Stadium, where The Beatles gave two triumphant concerts in 1965 and 1966.

The final musician to perform at Shea Stadium prior to its 2008 demolition had been Billy Joel. McCartney joined him on that night, and Joel returned the favour for the 17 July 2009 show. Together they performed I Saw Her Standing There.

The three July 2009 performances were filmed in high definition using 15 cameras, and directed by Paul Becher. The final edit also included footage from 75 flipcams which were handed out to fans at the shows.

The audio was mixed in stereo and 5.1 surround sound by The Beatles' former engineer Geoff Emerick, and Paul Hicks, who had previously worked on the 2009 Beatles remasters, the Anthology project, Love and Let It Be... Naked.

The release

Good Evening New York City was issued in three-disc and four-disc versions. The first was a standard edition containing two CDs and a DVD, whereas the deluxe version contained expanded packaging and a bonus DVD of McCartney's 15 July 2009 performance on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee, recorded for The Late Show with David Letterman.

The bonus DVD lasts for 47 minutes, and features the songs Get Back, Sing The Changes, Coming Up, Band On The Run, Let Me Roll It, Helter Skelter and Back In The USSR. There is also an audience documentary film titled Good Evening People, and a full Citi Field performance of I'm Down.

The Citi Field performances of Sing The Changes, Jet and Band On The Run were also released as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game on 5 January 2010.

Good Evening New York City peaked at number 28 in the UK albums chart, and at 16 on the US Billboard 200. It was a top 10 hit in Norway, but failed to chart highly elsewhere.

The recording of Helter Skelter from the album won in the category of Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.[2]

At the 53rd Grammy Awards, held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 13 February 2011, the recording of Helter Skelter from the album won in the category of Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.