Paul McCartney's 1972 • Albums, Songs, and Life Events

1972 highlights

The first Wings tour

Wings Over Europe tour

Year 1971

Year 1973

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Henry McCullough joins Wings

Jan 20, 1972

Paul and Linda meet John and Yoko in New York

January 29-31, 1972

Bloody Sunday

Jan 30, 1972

Wings departs for their University Tour

Feb 08, 1972

“Give Ireland Back To The Irish” banned

Feb 10, 1972

Wings take a day off from their university tour

Feb 12, 1972

Wings take a second day off from their university tour

Feb 15, 1972

Paul McCartney wins against Northern Songs

Feb 17, 1972

The Beatles win the Grammy Trustee Award

Mar 14, 1972

McCartney Productions Ltd. publish its results

Mar 31, 1972

The Beatles’ Fan Club closes

Mar 31, 1972

Ads published in Sounds Magazine to launch a Paul McCartney fan club

April 20 - July 22, 1972

Wings’ Summer tour announced

June 1972

Paul McCartney signs co-publishing deal with ATV

Jun 10, 1972

Spanish holidays for the McCartney family, and Wings

Mid-June to June 25, 1972

“Mary Had A Little Lamb”(Countryside version) broadcast on UK TV

Jun 24, 1972

“Mary Had A Little Lamb” (Barn version) broadcast on UK TV

Jun 29, 1972

Wings invited to festival in Verona

July 1972

Wings travel to Marseille to start its “Wings Over Europe” tour

Jul 08, 1972

Wings’ concert in Lyon doesn’t happen

Jul 14, 1972

Paul McCartney considered for a guest role in Twiggy’s film musical

August 1972

Paul & Linda McCartney & Denny Seiwell arrested for drug possession

Aug 10, 1972

Cannabis plants found in Paul McCartney’s Scottish farm

Sep 19, 1972

Paul McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass goes missing

Oct 10, 1972

Paul McCartney makes an appeal for the return of a stolen guitar

Oct 11, 1972

“Mary Had A Little Lamb” (Psychedelic version) broadcast on US TV

Oct 12, 1972

Photo shoot with Robert Ellis

Nov 14, 1972

Filming of the “Hi, Hi, Hi” / “C Moon” promotional videos

Nov 25, 1972

“Hi, Hi, Hi” lunchtime party

Nov 30, 1972

Wings Fun Club announced

Late 1972

“Hi, Hi, Hi” banned by the BBC

Dec 01, 1972

Paul McCartney to be judged in March 1973 in drug case

Dec 22, 1972

Paul and Linda McCartney Christmas poster in Disc

Dec 23, 1972

What happened for Paul in 1972

From Wikipedia:

Following the addition of guitarist Henry McCullough, Wings’ first concert tour began in 1972 with a debut performance in front of an audience of seven hundred at the University of Nottingham. Ten more dates followed as they travelled across the UK in a van during an unannounced tour of universities, during which the band stayed in modest accommodation and received pay in coinage collected from students, while avoiding Beatles songs during their performances. A seven-week, 25-show tour of Europe followed, during which the band played solely Wings and McCartney solo material except for a few covers, including the Little Richard hit “Long Tall Sally”, the only song McCartney played during the tour that had previously been recorded by the Beatles. McCartney wanted the tour to avoid large venues; most of the small halls they played had capacities of fewer than 3,000 people. Of his first two post-Beatles tours, McCartney said, “The main thing I didn’t want was to come on stage, faced with the whole torment of five rows of press people with little pads, all looking at me and saying, ‘Oh well, he is not as good as he was.’ So we decided to go out on that university tour which made me less nervous … by the end of that tour I felt ready for something else, so we went into Europe.“

Last updated on December 31, 2013