Wings Over Europe Tour

Wings Over Europe Tour
Tour by Wings
Associated album "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" singles
Start date 9 July 1972
End date 24 August 1972
Legs 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
Wings concert chronology

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.

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
9 July 1972OllioulesFranceCentre Culturel de Châteauvallon
12 July 1972Juan-les-PinsJuan-les-Pins
13 July 1972ArlesThéâtre Antique
14 July 1972LyonCanceled[1]
16 July 1972ParisOlympia
18 July 1972MunichGermanyZirkus-Krone-Bau
19 July 1972FrankfurtOffenbach-Halle
21 July 1972ZurichSwitzerlandKongress-Halle
22 July 1972MontreuxPavilion
1 August 1972CopenhagenDenmarkK.B. Hallen
4 August 1972HelsinkiFinlandMessuhalli
5 August 1972TurkuKupittaa Sports Hall
7 August 1972StockholmSwedenGröna Lund
8 August 1972ÖrebroIdretshalle
9 August 1972OsloNorwayNjaardhallen
10 August 1972GothenburgSwedenSkandinavien Halle
11 August 1972LundOlympen
12 August 1972OdenseDenmarkFyns Forum
14 August 1972AarhusVejlby-Risskov Hallen
16 August 1972DüsseldorfGermanyRheinhalle
17 August 1972RotterdamNetherlandsDe Doelen
19 August 1972GroningenEvenementenhal Martinihal
20 August 1972AmsterdamConcertgebouw
21 August 1972The HagueWorld Forum Convention Center
22 August 1972AntwerpBelgiumCinema Roma
24 August 1972BerlinGermanyDeutschlandhalle

Set list

Average set list[2]
  1. "Bip Bop"
  2. "Smile Away" (Paul & Linda McCartney cover)
  3. "Mumbo"
  4. "Give Ireland Back to the Irish"
  5. "1882" (Paul McCartney song)
  6. "I Would Only Smile" (Denny Laine song)
  7. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys cover)
  8. "The Mess"
  9. "Best Friend" (Paul McCartney song)
  10. "Soily"
  11. "I Am Your Singer"
  12. "Henry's Blues" (Henry McCullough song)
  13. "Say You Don't Mind" (Denny Laine song)
  14. "Seaside Woman" (Suzy and the Red Stripes cover)
  15. "Wild Life"
  16. "My Love"
  17. "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
  18. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney song)
    • Encore
  19. "Hi, Hi, Hi"
  20. "Long Tall Sally" (Little Richard cover)

References

  1. ↑ BootlegZone : Paul McCartney & Wings - ET72 - Live In Lyon - July 14, 1972
  2. ↑ Wings Average Setlists of tour: 1972 Europe Tour
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