The tour that produced the triple album Wings Over America, and noticed Paul McCartney and his band enjoying his first US exhibits because the days of The Beatles, opened on Could 3, 1976.
That evening, on the Tarrant County Conference Corridor (now the Fort Price Conference Centre) in Fort Price, Texas, McCartney led Wings on the primary evening of a 31-date North American itinerary. It was a part of the 14-month Wings Over The World tour.
These dates would go on to kind the lavish triple-album set that bore the tour’s title. It documented how Paul delighted huge crowds with a mixture of hits from the Wings period, and Beatles songs that audiences had by no means heard carried out reside earlier than. They included “Yesterday,” “Blackbird,” “Lady Madonna,” and “The Long and Winding Road.”
It was a tour that chimed with McCartney’s One On One tour, during which he additional investigated his peerless catalog. On the opening date of that tour in Fresno, California in 2016, Paul carried out “A Hard Day‘s Night,” along with his latter-day band, for the primary time as a solo artist.
By the spring of 2017, the set featured Wings and solo favourites, Beatles delights equivalent to “I’ve Got A Feeling” and “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite,” and even the Quarrymen-era “In Spite Of All The Danger.” The itinerary lastly got here to an in depth in December of that 12 months. Subsequent got here his Freshen Up dates of 2018-19, after which spring 2022 noticed a triumphant return to the highway in North America, after a pandemic-enforced layoff, for the Acquired Again itinerary.
Hearken to the Paul McCartney & Wings Finest Of playlist, that includes two hours of his hits as a solo artist and with Wings.
The Wings Over America album, launched six months after the conclusion of the North American tour, reached No.1 within the US. It additionally featured such Wings hits as “Band On The Run,” “Live And Let Die,” “Let ’Em In,” and a model of “Maybe I’m Amazed,” first featured on his 1970 solo album McCartney, that turned a High 10 American single.
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