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1972 WINGS TOUR BUS VIDEO

Enjoy this excellent compilation of video footage to the soundtrack of Sir Paul’s Yesterday.

 

 

PAUL McCARTNEY & WNO 481

“We knew we were going to tour in Europe and that the weather would be nice, and the idea of being stuck in a bus all the time, going from city to city, hotel to hotel, wasn’t too appealing so we decided to travel around in an open-top bus and get some sunshine as we travelled from one place to another.”

– Paul McCartney.

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The first show of the European tour was booked for a deliberately out-of-the-way location – a 2,000-seat Roman amphitheatre at Châteauvallon, high in the pine-forested hills above Toulon on the south-eastern coast of France. Here, before the gig, on Sunday, 9 July 1972, Paul gave an informal press conference. ‘I’m starting all over again and working my way upwards,’ he accepted. ‘You don’t fight Cassius Clay on your first time out.’ He hinted at his recent crisis of confidence and the worry of being smothered by the weight of his reputation:

‘A year ago, I used to wake up in the morning and think, I’m a myth. I’m Paul McCartney. And it scared the hell out of me.’ “We painted the outside psychedelic, like a magic bus,” McCartney says of their tour transport on that halcyon trip. “If you look at it very straight, very conventionally, it was quite a mad thing to do, to put a playpen on the top deck of the bus and put all the children in there while driving around Europe. It was not what you’d expect from a normal band. But we weren’t a normal band.”

 

WNO481 Paul McCartney's 1972 Wings Tour Bus
WNO 481 Paul McCartney's 1972 Wings Tour Bus

 

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Click to play the soundtrack plus interviews with Paul McCartney and others who were there.

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WNO 481 – WE CAN REBUILD HER

Mission Impossible it is not, we can rebuild her. We have the technology and it needn’t cost 6 million dollars!

INVITATIONS & HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Here is just a selection of the invitations and honourable mentions that WNO 481 Paul McCartney’s 1972 Wings Tour Bus has attracted.

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