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[Frozen_Phoenix]

Hi,

I hope the question was not already posted 15 times but I just wanted to know why the Millenium Concer wasn't released on DVD.
I just listened to Unison and it sounds fantastic. What was the complete setlist of the concert?

Thanks so much

[Galuush]

I hope someday they will decide to realise it on DVD. Such a good concert and important event in Celine's career

[Davey84]

It was rumoured that Céline didn't like the way she sounded (she had a bad cold days before the show) and that's why it never was released on DVD, now if you ask me she sounded a 1000 times better then on the AND..LIL cd!

I was actually thinking about this concert yesterday! Can't we make a petition to ask for it's release? it's the true piece of history and the set list was awesome!! Ce n'était un rêve at the end was so beautiful! Céline made the circle round when she sang that song!

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Millennium Concert
"My Heart Will Go On"
"Destin"
"All the Way" (duet with Frank Sinatra on video screen)
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Medley: "Ce n'était qu'un rêve"/"D'amour ou d'amitié"/"Mon ami m'a quittée"/"Une colombe"/"Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)"
"That's the Way It Is"
"I'm Your Angel" (duet with Garou)
"When I Fall in Love" (duet with Daniel Lavoie)
"J'irai où tu iras" (duet with Luke Mervill)
"Le blues du businessman" (duet with Bruno Pelletier)
"Regarde-moi"
"L'amour existe encore"
"Summer of '69" (Bryan Adams only)
"It's Only Love" (duet with Bryan Adams)
"When You're Gone" (duet with Bryan Adams)
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (duet with Bryan Adams)
"Live (for the One I Love)"
"Des mots qui sonnent"
"Unison" (featuring Stéphane Rousseau)
"Incognito"
"Love Can Move Mountains"
"Pour que tu m'aimes encore"
"S'il suffisait d'aimer"
"All by Myself"
"Ce n'était qu'un rêve" (encore)

Back in the day I saved an add for the dvd... with this picture:

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But I lost it over the years

Edited by Davey84, 25 June 2008 - 07:42 AM.

[CSCfan]

No, not a petition...you should've asked Céline directly when you got the chance (hint: Amsterdam, hotel - 1 autograph less -> 1 question extra) Davey.. As it's Céline who stopped it, not Sony..

[Davey84]

hahaha yeah I know... blame it all on me but ur the one going to Canada... what do u say to second chances?

[Timster]

Well I can see what she means, cos MHWGO at the end sounded slightly strained, so did ABM from what i've seen on YouTube. But I also think they should release the DVD!

[zoea2812]

I would love it if they released the dvd of it. On youtube the bits and pieces that i have seen look amazing.

[beautyroses]

I like to have millenium,memphis and live a paris on DVD,plz ask Celine & Sony

[CSCfan]

Davey84, on Jun 25 2008, 05:12 PM, said:

hahaha yeah I know... blame it all on me but ur the one going to Canada... what do u say to second chances?

Unfortunately I'm not.... Amsterdam was my last gig.  
I wish I had a second chance!  

[Alex_Incognito]

I think it was because some of the music issues aren't repairable.

She messed up on the lyrics of "That's The Way It Is" and "D'amour ou d'aimitié".
Some notes were flubbed, but those could have been fixed----but not forgetting the lyrics and pasting something else in.

It was a magical concert, though.

[sacredceline]

I would love a DVD : this show was amazing. I love Ce n'était qu'un reve ! Her voice is incredible on this live version !

[Vole]

beautyroses, on Jun 25 2008, 11:49 PM, said:

I like to have millenium,memphis and live a paris on DVD,plz ask Celine & Sony

Live A Paris is on DVD.

[CelineAndRene]

I have the millenium concert, and Memphis on DVD. I just burned the videos onto a Memorex DVD and it worked on my DVD Player.


But yes, an official DVD would be nice as well..

[ce-line]

I would love if they would re-release it on DVD, 'cause I haven't got it on VHS!

[destin139]

i would love a dvd of this concert - i think its one of her best, i love it!
and i dont have it on vhs and would love to have it on dvd!!

[Marcc]

Have you ever heard the first lines of S'il Suffisait D'aimer? Such false notes! I remember a few years ago when I was truly in shock hearing Celine singing so false for the very first time, when I downloaded the bootleg from this forum...

[Davey84]

Marcc, on Jun 25 2008, 11:14 PM, said:

Have you ever heard the first lines of S'il Suffisait D'aimer? Such false notes! I remember a few years ago when I was truly in shock hearing Celine singing so false for the very first time, when I downloaded the bootleg from this forum...

well did you see the video?



céline had troubles with her earpiece, that's why she's off key... and I don't think it's that bad! LOL

to Alex: well oke she forgot lyrics? so what? it doesn't have to be perfect all the time! plus I think that adds live to the concert! I bet that if this concert would have been given on 2 nights, we would have had a dvd, cos they could edit more

[KimboCosmo]

Vole, on Jun 25 2008, 01:26 PM, said:

beautyroses, on Jun 25 2008, 11:49 PM, said:

I like to have millenium,memphis and live a paris on DVD,plz ask Celine & Sony

Live A Paris is on DVD.

Yeah...LAP is on DVD, but the other two aren't, and I want those too!      Hurry up and release people!  I bet Celine has everything she's ever done at home on DVD's...can you imagine rumaging through her house to find all the rare things and keep them for your very own!     

[Alex_Incognito]

Davey84, on Jun 25 2008, 04:31 PM, said:

to Alex: well oke she forgot lyrics? so what? it doesn't have to be perfect all the time! plus I think that adds live to the concert! I bet that if this concert would have been given on 2 nights, we would have had a dvd, cos they could edit more

I'm not being a critic about it.  My point was that Celine is about perfection, and she (unlike we) wouldn't want this eternalized on DVD.

You're right, if it was a 2-night concert I'M SURE we'd have it on DVD.  She could have even done a sound check and re-recorded these parts (like what Barbra Streisand does for her DVDs).

[Davey84]

she did do a soundcheck though! footage of that was shown in MTV diary! but I guess that weren't full songs.

but yeah well given the AND...LIL cd, all I can say is: Céline listen to that cd, then listen to good quality recordings of the Millennium show... I think she'll find that La denière de Céline was closer to perfection then the AND cd

[one_heart_1_hart]

As I remember the reason why it was sometimes false: Celine couldn't wait for her leave for her hiatus of 2 years.. She wanted to start a family...

[CellyDee87]

How I would love love love a DVD of this concert... Bring it on already

[ex0h]

I'd love a DVD of the concert too.

Maybe if there WAS a petition she'd see that we don't care if she flubbed a note or a lyric here and there, because we know she can't be 110% perfect for every single concert, ESPECIALLY one of this emotional magnitude.

[tonybower]

As has already been mentioned, Céline was not happy with the way she sounded at this concert. Personally, a false note here or there does not upset me at all and I think this show would work great as a DVD.

And I agree with Davey that Celine sounded much better at the Millenium Concert than she does on the recordings of Live in Las Vegas. At Vegas, a tough regime and hostile climate had very audible negative effects on Céline's voice. But any sound problems at the Millenium were a result of technical difficulties and not the fault of Céline. Of course, at the start of S'il suffisait d'aimer, she has trouble finding the right key but that is because she cannot hear herself! There is quite obviously a problem with her earpiece but as soon as it is rectified, she finds her key and more than makes up for any false start!

If you watch the concert, you can see in Céline's face that she is unhappy with the sound and she is constantly gesturing to technicians. At one point, her sound pack falls off and you see a technician running after her to sort it out. Yet, despite all this, Céline gives one of her finest performances. Great to get MHWGO out of the way as the first song and It was so refreshing to hear her sing earlier songs (even if I'm not a fan of the Unison/Incognito era) along with new songs like The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and That's The Way It Is. The main problem, I guess, was that the show was such a huge project, with many guests, an exhaustive setlist and a tight schedule.

The highlight of the whole concert for me, though, has to be her duet with Bruno Pelletier, singing my fave song Le blues du businessman.
Even better than that, though, has to be the incredible finale with probably the best performances of All By Myself, Pour que tu m'aimes encore and Ce n'était qu'un reve I have ever heard or seen!! I love these last few songs!!

[angeluk2]

KimboCosmo, on Jun 25 2008, 11:26 PM, said:

Vole, on Jun 25 2008, 01:26 PM, said:

beautyroses, on Jun 25 2008, 11:49 PM, said:

I like to have millenium,memphis and live a paris on DVD,plz ask Celine & Sony

Live A Paris is on DVD.

Yeah...LAP is on DVD, but the other two aren't, and I want those too!      Hurry up and release people!  I bet Celine has everything she's ever done at home on DVD's...can you imagine rumaging through her house to find all the rare things and keep them for your very own!     

Sounds like a plan!   

[Lymon]

This is my favorite concert from Celine ever. I know she didn't want the DVD to be released because she feels her vocals weren't at top form or something(she was recovering from a cold), but I feel her vocals were just fine. Her vocals here were certainly better than some of her vocals from Vegas(don't get me started on Because You Loved Me or A New Day Has Come.....). But the real reason I love this concert the most is because of the tracklisting. It was incredibly diverse and truly represented Celine's career. Thankfully, it only had one of her "big hits"(My Heart Will Go On), and they got it done and over with in the very beginning. It wasn't like her concerts nowadays where she goes through lipping her big hits, then finally gets to some new material, and doesn't sing any lesser known tracks. She also performed songs here I wouldn't have expected, like Unison and Incognito, which were nice inclusions. I don't think she'll ever top this concert, unless sh ehas another one like it in 2009 and does a setlist like it(but not the exact same one, of course ).

Edit: Sorry for the double post. You can delete this one.

Edited by Lymon, 01 July 2008 - 07:55 AM.

[rta]

I really think it's a shame this concert isn't for sale. I didn't know about till I arrived home in the wee early hours of the morging that new year. I was very sick at that moment too. A bad cough and I had just taken my meds and wanted it to go down a bit before I going to bed. I was zapping and came across the concert. I missed the beginning, but I gathered all the bits of video I could find and I still got to tap the rest of it. I managed to get a fair bit of it, but it's spead over a range of 30 odd videos. It's be great to see the whole thing in one go. I thought she sounded awesom, basically, like always then!

[artist]

All the nasal thing (dunno if i can call it the beginning of the vocal decline) in her voice started that night.
To be honest, my heart will go on was almost like a lullaby...  

i dunno... i really love that concert and love Celine's hot look in 1999's, but i can't find any powerful performace like in the (falling into you TV Special)  

and YES... still it's better than the a new day DVD

Edited by artist, 02 July 2008 - 05:25 AM.

[cuperek]

Hi Everyone!!!
Do You know, where could I find this Millenium Concert broadcast recording or DVD ??
please help, I'd be thankful... maybe one of You have this recorded, when it was in TV ??

[Davey84]

it was on tv december 31th, 1999