Albums covering this tour
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26 concerts • 9 countries
Germany • Berlin • Deutschlandhalle
Aug 24, 1972 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Belgium • Antwerp • Cinema Roma
Aug 22, 1972 • There are 9 albums covering this show
Netherlands • The Hague • Congresgebouw
Aug 21, 1972 • There are 13 albums covering this show
Netherlands • Amsterdam • Concertgebouw
Aug 20, 1972 • There are 8 albums covering this show
Netherlands • Groningen • Evenementenhal Martinihal
Aug 19, 1972 • There are 6 albums covering this show
Netherlands • Rotterdam • De Doelen
Aug 17, 1972 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Germany • Dusseldorf • Rheinhalle
Aug 16, 1972
Denmark • Aarhus • Vejlby Risskov Hallen
Aug 14, 1972 • There is 1 album covering this show
Aug 12, 1972
Aug 11, 1972 • There is 1 album covering this show
Sweden • Gothenburg • Skandinavien Halle
Aug 10, 1972
Aug 09, 1972
Aug 08, 1972
Sweden • Stockholm • Grona Lund
Aug 07, 1972 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Aug 05, 1972
Finland • Helsinki • Messuhalli
Aug 04, 1972
Denmark • Copenhagen • K.B. Hallen
Aug 01, 1972 • There is 1 album covering this show
Switzerland • Montreux • Pavilion
Jul 22, 1972 • There are 3 albums covering this show
Switzerland • Zurich • Kongress-Halle
Jul 21, 1972
Germany • Frankfurt • Offenbach-Halle
Jul 19, 1972 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Germany • Munich • Zirkus-Krone
Jul 18, 1972 • There is 1 album covering this show
Jul 16, 1972
Jul 16, 1972
France • Arles • Theatre Antique
Jul 13, 1972 • There is 1 album covering this show
France • Juan-les-Pins • Juan-les-Pins
Jul 12, 1972
France • Chateauvallon • Centre culturel
Jul 09, 1972 • There is 1 album covering this show
About
From Wikipedia:
In the summer of 1972, Paul McCartney’s newly formed band, Wings, set out on a concert tour of Europe.
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 never came to fruition, however, and 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 Number One single “My Love“.
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.
Wings’ lineup for the tour was Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Henry McCullough, and Denny Seiwell.
Paul McCartney in "Wingspan: Paul McCartney's Band on the Run":
We knew we were going to tour in Europe, and that the weather would be nice, and the idea of being stuck in a bus all the time, going from city to city, hotel to hotel, wasn’t too appealing. Not much quality of life there. So we decided to travel around in an open-top bus. We put mattresses on the top deck and got some sunshine as we traveled from one place to another. And we painted the outside psychedelic, like a magic bus.If you look at it very straight, very conventionally, it was a quite mad thing to do, to put a playpen on the top deck of the bus and put all the children in there while driving around Europe. It was not what you’d expect from a normal band. But we weren’t a normal band.
Last updated on October 29, 2018
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