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One Night Only
- Cat.no: 502099
- Cert: E
- Running time: 45 minutes
- Year: 1999
- Pressing: 2000
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 13 plus extras
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Stereo
- Languages: English, Spanish
- Subtitles: None
- Presented in Fullscreen
- 16:9-enhanced: No
- Macrovision: No
- Disc Format: DVD 5
- Price: £19.99
- Extras : Scene index, Music Video, Photo Gallery
Ricky Martin: One Night Onlyis a gig performed at Liberty State Park – featuring his trademark hitLivin’ La Vida Loca – and also containing a collaboration withCarlos Santana and Jose Feliciano on track 9.
Also included is Ricky showing you a brief bit of footage of Puerto Rico,”Who Am I?” – Ricky getting very philosophical about his life and some verydodgy haircuts, plus 90 seconds of Ricky singing with some kids from the town.
His singles chart history to mid-2000 is as follows :
Sep 97No. 6(Un Dos Tres) MariaJul 98No.29The Cup of LifeJul 99No. 1Livin’ La Vida LocaNov 99No.12Shake Your Bon-BonApr 00No. 9Private Emotion (with Meja)
The picture quality is okay, but nothing outstanding as it’s an okay NTSC-to-PALvideo transfer, all presented in fullscreen. The average bitrate is anexcellent 9.17Mb/s.
The sound comes in Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1, with no problems whatsoever.
Extras. : Chapters :There are 13 chapters on the disc, within which are 7 songs plus some extrafootage. The track listing is as follows : 1. Sony Music Video logo
2. Opening Montage
3. Livin’ La Vida Loca
4. Ricky in Puerto Rico
5. She’s All I Ever Had
6. “Who Am I?”
7. Spanish Eyes/Lola Lola (Medley)
8. Ricky with Children of Puerto Rico
9. Shake Your Bon Bon
10. Light My Fire/Guajira/Oye Como Va
11. Maria (Live Remix)
12. The Cup of Life (Live Remix)
13. Closing Credits Languages & Subtitles :As stated before, the sound is in Stereo or Dolby Digital 5.1 and songs arein their respective languages as above, but there are no lyrics onscreen. And there’s more… :The music promo for Shake Your Bon-Bon, even though we already have ithere in live format, plus an 8-picture Photo Gallery, which you’llprobably look at once and not bother with again. Menu :
Better than hisVideo Collection DVD
,the menus here are all animated and contain the man’s music.
Overall, even for the biggest Ricky Martin fan, £20 for 45 minutes ofvideo is not going to be an impulse purchase and if you already have theaforementioned Video Collection, then most of that music is repeated hereeven if it’s a live recording rather than the music videos.
On the other hand, I could tell you to buy lots of copies at full priceand make him lots of money so that he never returns to acting and anyoneelse who saw him in General Hospital (circa 1994) will know what I mean.Those who didn’t can see his haircut in track 6 on this DVD.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.