| Tour by Wings | |
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| Associated album | Back to the Egg |
|---|---|
| Start date | 23 November 1979 |
| End date | 29 December 1979 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 20 |
| Wings concert chronology | |
On 23 November 1979, Paul McCartney's band Wings began a 19-date concert tour of the United Kingdom to promote their recent album, Back to the Egg .
Wings' lineup for the tour was Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Laurence Juber and Steve Holley, together with a brass section from the previous tour led by Howie Casey.
Following the main part of the tour, Wings teamed up with an all-star cast of musicians and took the name Rockestra to perform a series of Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
It was originally to have been the first leg of a planned world tour, with further stops scheduled in Japan, Europe and America. However, it became Wings' final concert tour, after McCartney's marijuana arrest in Tokyo the following January. [1] [2]
A recording of "Coming Up" from Glasgow on 17 December 1979 of the tour was released on the single in April 1980 taking the A-side in the United States and becoming a number one hit. The Glasgow show itself was widely bootlegged under the title 'Last Flight'. [3]
Six songs of the Hammersmith Odeon performance, three by Wings and three by Rockestra, were released on a Concerts for the People of Kampuchea live album.
With the beginning of Paul McCartney Archive Collection album reissues in 2010 more songs from a Glasgow show have been released. Band on the Run reissue received "No Words" and "Band on the Run" as pre-order bonus tracks, McCartney included "Every Night", "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Hot as Sun" and McCartney II included "Coming Up" as bonus tracks.
Per Paul McCartney's website: [4]
After a live rehearsal at the Liverpool Royal Court attended by pupils of Liverpool Institute, McCartney's alma mater and of John Lennon's former school, Quarry Bank.
| Date | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 November 1979 | Liverpool | England | Royal Court Theatre |
| 24 November 1979 | |||
| 25 November 1979 | |||
| 26 November 1979 | |||
| 28 November 1979 | Manchester | Manchester Apollo | |
| 29 November 1979 | |||
| 1 December 1979 | Southampton | Gaumont Theatre | |
| 2 December 1979 | Brighton | Brighton Centre | |
| 3 December 1979 | London | Lewisham Odeon | |
| 5 December 1979 | The Rainbow Theatre | ||
| 7 December 1979 | Wembley Arena | ||
| 8 December 1979 | |||
| 9 December 1979 | |||
| 10 December 1979 | |||
| 12 December 1979 | Birmingham | Birmingham Odeon | |
| 14 December 1979 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Newcastle City Hall | |
| 15 December 1979 | Edinburgh | Scotland | Edinburgh Odeon |
| 16 December 1979 | Glasgow | The Apollo | |
| 17 December 1979 | |||
| 29 December 1979 [A] | London | England | Hammersmith Odeon |
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