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
Number 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 arrested for possession of marijuana and fined US$1,200. Paul joked the arrest would “make good publicity” for the tour, but this arrest would cause him much trouble trying to gain visas for future tours.

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 1972	Ollioules	France	Centre Culturel de Châteauvallon
12 July 1972	Juan-les-Pins		Juan-les-Pins
13 July 1972	Arles		Théâtre Antique
14 July 1972	Lyon		Canceled
16 July 1972	Paris		Olympia
18 July 1972	Munich	Germany	Zirkus-Krone-Bau
19 July 1972	Frankfurt		Offenbach-Halle
21 July 1972	Zurich	Switzerland	Kongress-Halle
22 July 1972	Montreux		Pavilion
1 August 1972	Copenhagen	Denmark	K.B. Hallen
4 August 1972	Helsinki	Finland	Messuhalli
5 August 1972	Turku		Kupittaa Sports Hall
7 August 1972	Stockholm	Sweden	Gröna Lund
8 August 1972	Örebro		Idretshalle
9 August 1972	Oslo	Norway	Njaardhallen
10 August 1972	Gothenburg	Sweden	Skandinavien Halle
11 August 1972	Lund		Olympen
12 August 1972	Odense	Denmark	Fyns Forum
14 August 1972	Aarhus		Vejlby-Risskov Hallen
16 August 1972	Düsseldorf	Germany	Rheinhalle
17 August 1972	Rotterdam	Netherlands	De Doelen
19 August 1972	Groningen		Evenementenhal Martinihal
20 August 1972	Amsterdam		Concertgebouw
21 August 1972	The Hague		World Forum Convention Center
22 August 1972	Antwerp	Belgium	Cinema Roma
24 August 1972	Berlin	Germany	Deutschlandhalle

Set list

Average set list

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)