Legs 1 End date August 24, 1972 | Start date 1972 Leg 1 | |
No. of shows 26
5 in France,
4 in West Germany,
4 in Sweden,
4 in The Netherlands,
3 in Denmark,
2 in Switzerland,
2 in Finland,
1 in Norway,
& 1 in Belgium Associated album "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" singles | ||
Wings over europe tour 1972
In the summer of 1972, Paul McCartney's newly formed band, Wings, set out on a concert tour of Europe.
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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.