- First date:
- Sep 09, 1975
- Last date:
- Oct 21, 1976
- Number of concerts:
- 65
- Number of countries:
- 10
Albums covering this tour
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For me, the highlights from the ‘Wings over the World’ tour are Madison Square Garden, New York and The Kingdome in Seattle. And after a year’s work of trying to achieve the impossible – forming a band after The Beatles – we made it. The smell of success was sweet.
Paul McCartney – From paulmccartney.com, May 30, 2013
From Wikipedia:
In 1975 and 1976, Paul McCartney’s band Wings embarked on the ambitious Wings Over the World tour.
In contrast to Wings’ two low-profile, smaller-scale outings of 1972, this was a major, highly publicised concert tour that took place mostly in arenas. Around one million people attended 66 shows on three continents — Australia, Europe, and North America (where it was known as the Wings Over America Tour and represented McCartney’s first appearances in concert since the last Beatles tour in 1966). Touring Japan was also planned, but was cancelled by that country’s authorities because of McCartney’s 1972 Swedish marijuana arrest.
The tour came upon the heels of two Wings album releases: Venus and Mars and Wings at the Speed of Sound. Both were described as “stadium rock” type albums, and the songs from both were heavily represented on the tour, as were numbers from the popular and critically-acclaimed Band on the Run. To emphasize that Wings was a real band and not just a McCartney showcase, Denny Laine sang several lead vocals, including “Go Now”, reprising his vocal on The Moody Blues’ first hit from 1965, and Simon & Garfunkel’s 1966 song “Richard Cory”. Jimmy McCulloch also sang lead on his song “Medicine Jar”. But most noteworthy was McCartney’s decision to perform a minimal sampling of five of his own Beatles songs – despite an earlier disinclination to do any at all. Performances of “Yesterday” and “The Long and Winding Road” used muted horn arrangements rather than their original strings, in the latter case vividly emphasising McCartney’s strong objections to Phil Spector’s heavy-handed strings treatment on the Let It Be album.
Wings’ lineup for the tour was Paul and Linda McCartney, Joe English, Denny Laine, and Jimmy McCulloch. They were joined by brass and woodwind players Howie Casey, Steve Howard, Thaddeus Richard, and Tony Dorsey. For the tour, the graphic design firm Hipgnosis, who worked with Wings at the time, created a memorable group logo featuring a stylized letter “W” with a set of wings, and the logo continued to be associated with Wings even after the tour.
Last updated on August 20, 2023
65 concerts • 10 countries
United Kingdom • London • Empire Pool
Oct 21, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • London • Empire Pool
Oct 20, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • London • Empire Pool
Oct 19, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Germany • Munich • Olympiahalle
Sep 27, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Italy • Venice • Piazza San Marco
Sep 25, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Yugoslavia • Zagreb • Dom Sportova
Sep 21, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Sep 19, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Jun 23, 1976 • There are 6 albums covering this show
Jun 22, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Jun 21, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Tucson • Convention Center
Jun 18, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • San Diego • Sports Arena
Jun 16, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • San Francisco • Cow Palace
Jun 14, 1976 • There are 3 albums covering this show
USA • San Francisco • Cow Palace
Jun 13, 1976 • There are 4 albums covering this show
Jun 10, 1976 • There are 8 albums covering this show
USA • Denver • McNichols Arena
Jun 07, 1976 • There are 6 albums covering this show
Jun 04, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Chicago • Chicago Stadium
Jun 02, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
USA • Chicago • Chicago Stadium
Jun 01, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
USA • Chicago • Chicago Stadium
May 31, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Kansas City • Kemper Arena
May 29, 1976 • There are 8 albums covering this show
USA • Cincinnati • Riverfront Coliseum
May 27, 1976 • There are 5 albums covering this show
USA • New York • Madison Square Garden
May 25, 1976 • There are 5 albums covering this show
USA • New York • Madison Square Garden
May 24, 1976
May 22, 1976 • There are 6 albums covering this show
USA • Uniondale • Nassau Coliseum
May 21, 1976 • There are 5 albums covering this show
May 19, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
May 18, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Landover • Capital Centre
May 16, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Landover • Capital Centre
May 15, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
May 14, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
May 12, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Cleveland • Richfield Coliseum
May 10, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
USA • Toronto • Maple Leaf Gardens
May 09, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
May 08, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
May 07, 1976 • There are 5 albums covering this show
May 04, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
USA • Fort Worth • Tarrant County Convention Hall
May 03, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Mar 26, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Netherlands • Rotterdam • Ahoy Rotterdam
Mar 25, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Germany • Berlin • Deutschlandhalle
Mar 23, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Denmark • Copenhagen • Falkoner Theatre
Mar 21, 1976 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Denmark • Copenhagen • Falkoner Theatre
Mar 20, 1976 • There is 1 album covering this show
Australia • Melbourne • Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Nov 14, 1975
Australia • Melbourne • Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Nov 13, 1975 • There are 2 albums covering this show
Australia • Brisbane • Festival Hall
Nov 11, 1975
Australia • Brisbane • Festival Hall
Nov 10, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
Australia • Sydney • Hordern Pavilion
Nov 08, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
Australia • Sydney • Hordern Pavilion
Nov 07, 1975
Australia • Adelaide • Apollo Stadium
Nov 05, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
Australia • Adelaide • Apollo Stadium
Nov 04, 1975
Australia • Perth • Entertainment Centre
Nov 01, 1975
United Kingdom • Dundee • Caird Hall
Sep 23, 1975
United Kingdom • Aberdeen • Capitol
Sep 22, 1975
United Kingdom • Glasgow • Apollo Centre
Sep 21, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • Edinburgh • Usher Hall
Sep 20, 1975
United Kingdom • London • Hammersmith Odeon
Sep 18, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • London • Hammersmith Odeon
Sep 17, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • Newcastle upon Tyne • City Hall
Sep 16, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • Liverpool • Empire Theatre
Sep 15, 1975
United Kingdom • Birmingham • Hippodrome
Sep 13, 1975 • There are 2 albums covering this show
United Kingdom • Manchester • Free Trade Hall
Sep 12, 1975
United Kingdom • Cardiff • Capitol
Sep 11, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
United Kingdom • Bristol • Hippodrome
Sep 10, 1975
United Kingdom • Southampton • Gaumont Theatre
Sep 09, 1975 • There is 1 album covering this show
Going further
Wings Live - On tour in the 70s
This is the first detailed study of Paul McCartney's Wings on tour in the 1970s. It covers every single concert from the University Tour of 1972, ending with the abandoned tour of Japan in January 1980. A wide variety of primary sources have been consulted, including all available audio and video recordings; press reviews; fan recollections; newspaper reports and tour programmes.
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