Wings Over Europe Tour

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Wings Over Europe Tour
Tour by Wings
Associated album"Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" singles
Start date9 July 1972
End date24 August 1972
Legs1
No. of shows25
Wings concert chronology

In the summer of 1972, Paul McCartney's newly formed band, Wings, set out on a concert tour of Europe, in a double decker bus, WNO 481. [1]

Contents

Promotion

Coming on the heels of a tour of English universities, the Wings Over Europe Tour was intended to promote recent singles "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb", as well as provide live recordings to be included on a future album. The second objective did not come to fruition for a long time, the album Red Rose Speedway was released in Spring of the next year without any of the concert material. Only the 21 August performance of "The Mess" at The Hague was officially released, as a B-side to the single "My Love".

The live version of new song "Best Friend" was intended to be released as part of Cold Cuts compilation album, but the album was abandoned permanently.

In 2012 a live track consisting of "Eat at Home" and "Smile Away" recorded in Groningen was released as an iTunes exclusive to the reissue of Paul and Linda McCartney's Ram .

Only in 2018, a newly compiled live album Wings Over Europe was released in the limited edition boxset Wings 1971–73 in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. [2] , while "Best Friend" and "1882" were also released as part of Red Rose Speedway reissue.

Touring

The band, with the McCartney children and their road crew, loaded up in a brightly coloured double decker bus for the tour of the continent. The tour proceeded largely without incident, but on 10 August in Gothenburg, Sweden, Paul and Linda McCartney were fined US$1,200 for possession of marijuana. Paul joked that the incident would "make good publicity" for the tour, in comments reported around the world at the time (e.g. Miami Herald, 12 August 1972 [3] ). The Daily Telegraph (12 August 1972) quoted "a member of the group" as saying that this was an "excellent advertisement. ... Our name flies now all over the world". [4]

Wings' line up for the tour was Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Henry McCullough, and Denny Seiwell.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
9 July 1972 Ollioules France Centre Culturel de Châteauvallon
12 July 1972 Juan-les-Pins Le Théâtre de la Mer Jean Marais
13 July 1972 Arles Théâtre Antique
14 July 1972 Lyon Unknown – Show canceled [5]
16 July 1972 Paris L'Olympia Bruno Coquatrix
18 July 1972 Munich West Germany Circus Krone Building
19 July 1972 Frankfurt Stadthalle Offenbach
21 July 1972 Zürich Switzerland Tonhalle
22 July 1972 Montreux Pavillon Montreux
1 August 1972 Copenhagen Denmark K.B. Hallen
4 August 1972 Helsinki Finland Messuhalli
5 August 1972 Turku Kupittaa Sports Hall
7 August 1972 Stockholm Sweden Gröna Lund
8 August 1972 Örebro Idrottshuset
9 August 1972 Oslo Norway Njårdhallen
10 August 1972 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
11 August 1972 Lund Olympen
12 August 1972 Odense DenmarkFyns Forum
14 August 1972 Aarhus Vejlby-Risskov Hallen
16 August 1972 Düsseldorf West GermanyRheinhalle
17 August 1972 Rotterdam Netherlands De Doelen
19 August 1972 Groningen Evenementenhal Martinihal
20 August 1972 Amsterdam Concertgebouw
21 August 1972 The Hague Nederlands Congresgebouw
22 August 1972 Antwerp Belgium Kinema Roma
24 August 1972 West Berlin West Germany Deutschlandhalle

Set list

Average set list [6]
  1. Intro / "Eat At Home"
  2. "Smile Away" (Paul & Linda McCartney cover)
  3. "Bip Bop"
  4. "Mumbo"
  5. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys cover)
  6. "1882" (Paul McCartney song)
  7. "I Would Only Smile" (Denny Laine song)
  8. "Give Ireland Back to the Irish"
  9. "The Mess"
  10. "Best Friend" (Paul McCartney song)
  11. "Soily"
  12. "I Am Your Singer"
  13. "Henry's Blues" (Henry McCullough song)
  14. "Say You Don't Mind" (Denny Laine song)
  15. "Seaside Woman" (Linda McCartney song)
  16. "Wild Life"
  17. "My Love"
  18. "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
  19. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney song)
  20. "Hi, Hi, Hi"
    • Encore
  21. "Long Tall Sally" (Little Richard cover)

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References

  1. "Wings Over Europe Tour". paulmccartney.com. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  2. "Paul announces reissues of 'Wild Life' and 'Red Rose Speedway' + 'Wings 1971–73'". 8 October 2018.
  3. "Clipped From The Miami Herald". The Miami Herald. 1972-08-12. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  4. "Clipped From The Daily Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. 1972-08-12. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  5. "BootlegZone : Paul McCartney & Wings - ET72 - Live In Lyon - July 14, 1972". Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  6. Wings Average Setlists of tour: 1972 Europe Tour