Talk:Christine McVie (album)

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Laserdisc, documentary and questions

I found some Billboard issues that talk about the Laserdisc/Videodisk version of the album (the difference doesn't seem to be clear". This one talks about a special promotion by Pioneer Artists; this other one talks about the contents of this Pioneer Artists release of the album (issued along with Vestron Video Home Video); and this last one has an a full page ad for it (page 5). This ad issue also also has an article about "attorney and video entrepreneur" Mickey Shapiro that says the following:

"'When I started doing these shows, the dream was to have a coordinated launch for an album tying a long-form program, a clip and an album together from the outset,' Shapiro recalls. 'It didn't work well then, because you have to cover three points if such a project is to work: a home video company, a record label, and a cable outlet like MTV.' Shapiro does contend that he's gotten closer to the mark on more recent projects. Christine McVie's current Warner Bros. album was bracketed by two separate MTV specials, with a documentary preceding the recording's release, a clip added to push the initial single, and a concert special aired a week after the album's shipment."

I'm not sure if we can account for all of these releases related to the album. The documentary might be one of those two specials, as suggested here, but I'm not sure if it's three separate videos. It seems to talk about the recording process of the album, so it might help this article. Only part one seems to be available on YouTube, however, as the parts posted on the Ledge Forums are not accessible anymore.

I also wanted to ask two things. Should the information on the music videos for the first two singles be kept in "Recording and composition" or be moved to the "Release" section? And should the article's rating be changed as it is far more complete now and in active improvement? Juand.1974 (talk) 16:43, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I can check on the Ledge to see if there's a way to access part 2 of that recording. I checked to see if the video was archived, but unfortunately that is not the case. To my understanding, the video album has a slightly different track list from the laserdisc. AllMusic has the track list of the video here. [1] Based on the laserdisc videos posted to YouTube, ( [2] and [3]) the laserdisc includes "Too Much is Not Enough", which does not appear on what I assume is the videodisc (which seems to be what's included on the AllMusic link). However, "Don't Stop" and "Songbird" appear to be unique to the videodisc. Some practice footage of "The Challenge" and the studio version of "Love Will Show Us How" is present on the the laserdisc, although the remainder of it the footage consists of one of her live concerts.

I would be open to move the music video information to the release section. Right now, I'm planning a few further expansions of the article based on three sources: The Press Kit article discusses the Montreux recording studio in greater detail, so I would like to incorporate some of that information here. The other two will come from the recent Todd Sharp interview and the 1984 Christine McVie documentary. After that, I plan to move on to work on The Visitor, which has some untapped potential.

For the assessment, C class would be pretty safe. Once we get all of our desired updates to the article worked out, we can consider the idea of nominating it for good article status. Dobbyelf62 (talk) 18:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Alright, thanks! The music videos do fit better in the Release section. I'll keep looking for info regarding the laser/video disc releases, to hopefully add to the article. I'll also be helping around, see what other info I can find. Juand.1974 (talk) 02:53, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

I found the video album and laser disc releases on eBay. I chose the best image quality items I could find, if you'd like to take a look. It seems that the video album was released both in VHS and CED, and that the laser disc was either made or released in 1983, perhaps around the time the Country Club concert was shot? It also seems that Pioneer Artists is related to the laser disc and Vestron Video to the video album

Video album (cool poster):

VHS: 1, 2.

CED: 1, 2. Other links: 3, 4

Laserdisc:

1, 2, 3 Juand.1974 (talk) 18:02, 14 December 2024 (UTC)