Wings University Tour
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Wings University Tour was an impromptu
Background
McCartney had formed Wings for the purpose of having a band to go on the road with again, and he wasted no time in doing just that. During the waning years of
Locations, fee
McCartney took the band on an impromptu tour of the United Kingdom's universities. Beginning on 9 February[3] Wings would arrive—often unannounced—at destinations McCartney would later refer to in the 2001 documentary Wingspan as venues which simply "sounded [interesting]" to the band, and would subsequently perform live for whoever happened to be on campus on the date of their arrival. He would later reflect on the mechanisms and motives of this tour as being a phase in the construction of the band he had formed, stating: "For me, it was like building the whole thing from square one."[4]
The band's intended first stop on the tour,
Tour dates
Date | City | Country | Venue |
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9 February 1972 | Nottingham | England | University of Nottingham |
10 February 1972 | York | University of York | |
11 February 1972 | Kingston upon Hull | Hull University - West Refectory
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13 February 1972 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Havelock Hall | |
14 February 1972 | Lancaster | Lancaster University | |
16 February 1972 | Leeds | Leeds Town Hall | |
17 February 1972 | Sheffield | Sheffield University
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18 February 1972 | Salford |
Salford University
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21 February 1972 | Birmingham | Deb Hall
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22 February 1972 | Swansea | Wales | Swansea University |
23 February 1972 | Oxford | England | Oxford University
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Set list
- "Lucille"
- "Give Ireland Back to the Irish"
- "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
- "Seaside Woman"
- "Help Me Darling"
- "Some People Never Know"
- "The Mess"
- "Bip Bop"
- "Say Darling"
- "Smile Away"
- "My Love"
- "Henry's Blues"
- "Wild Life"
- "Give Ireland Back to the Irish"
- "Long Tall Sally"
References
- ^ ISBN 9780711983076.
- ^ ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
- ISBN 0-491-03325-7p. 109
- ISBN 0-491-03325-7p. 98
- ^ Harvey, Simon (2010-11-09). "Do you remember Paul McCartney at the Portland Ballroom?". Nottingham University Alumni Online.
- ^ Paul McCartney Average Setlists of tour: University UK Tour http://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/paul-mccartney-13d6bd15.html?tour=University+UK+Tourhtml