Manchester • Friday, February 18, 1972
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- City:
- Manchester
- Location:
- Salford University
About
This was the eighth show of Wing’s University Tour. It took place at the Salford University near Manchester.
We had a big hall where a play was being produced and they were afraid the scenery would fall on us. We just missed a blackout that time.
Paul McCartney – From the “Wings Over Europe” tour book
This concert was on a Friday and Wings would break for the weekend. Their next concert would be in Birmingham, on February 21.
The next day we stayed with my Dad in Liverpool. No one was at the University because it was Sunday, so we gave it a miss.
Paul McCartney – From the “Wings Over Europe” tour book
About the setlist
The exact setlist for this concert (and for most of the concerts of the Wings’ university tour) is unknown. Only two audience recordings surfaced on bootlegs (one for the first concert of the tour, in Nottingham, on February 9, 1971; the other one for the concert in Hull, on February 11, 1971), even if all the concerts had been taped by the band.
The gigs were pretty much the same. We taped them all.
Denny Laine
We didn’t have many songs. To be precise, we had eleven, which – at about three minutes a song – is a 33 minute act. They wanted longer so we repeated things. ‘We’ve had a request to do Lucille. We did it earlier but now we’re gonna do it again for Jenny Babford on the science course’. Whatever. We just repeated things, especially our new single Give Ireland Back to the Irish. The gigs went quite well but it’s funny to look back and realise that we had such little material.
Paul McCartney – From “Wingspan: Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run“
The setlists were a mix of new songs, oldies and some blues jams. Paul McCartney made sure to not play any Beatles song. It’s likely the setlist of this concert was similar to this:
- Lucille
- Give Ireland Back To The Irish
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
- Seaside Woman
- Thank You Darling
- You’ve Got To Help Me Darlin’
- Some People Never Know
- The Mess
- Bip Bop
- Henry’s Blues
- Smile Away
- My Love
- Wild Life
- Long Tall Sally
Last updated on May 1, 2022
Setlist for the concert
The setlist for this concert is incomplete, or we have not be able to confirm in an accurate way that this was the setlist. If you have any clue, pls let us know and leave a comment.
1.
Written by Richard Penniman / Little Richard, Albert Collins
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3.
Written by Bill Monroe
4.
Written by Linda McCartney
5.
Help Me Darling
6.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
7.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
8.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
9.
Say Darling
10.
Written by Paul McCartney
11.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
12.
Written by Henry McCullough
13.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
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