English musician

Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One ...

has participated in a number of

concert tour A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations. Often concert tours are named to differentiate different tours by the same artist and to associate a specific to ...

s across several eras of his musical career. With the British–American

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band

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, he undertook five major tours, with one, the

Wings Over the World tour The Wings Over the World tour was a series of concerts in 1975 and 1976 by the British–American rock band Wings performed in Britain, Australia, Europe, the United States and Canada. The North American leg constituted band leader Paul McCartne ...

, being worldwide. Following Wings' final 1979 tour of the UK, McCartney did not undergo a major concert tour for ten years. As a solo artist, McCartney has undergone sixteen major concert tours, nine being worldwide. His first was

The Paul McCartney World Tour The Paul McCartney World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by Paul McCartney, notable for being McCartney's first tour under his own name, and for the monumental painted stage sets by artist Brian Clarke. The 103-gig tour, which ran from 1989 thr ...

(1989–90) and his most recent being the 2022

Got Back Got Back was a concert tour by English musician Paul McCartney, that started on 28 April 2022 and ended on 25 June 2022. The tour was McCartney's first following the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in the cancellation of a planned European leg ...

tour.

With Wings

Paul McCartney with Jimmy McCulloch - Wings - 1976

The British–American rock band

was Paul McCartney's post-

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band who were active from 1971 to 1981. Their primary line-up was McCartney, his wife

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and guitarist

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, formerly of

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. Throughout their years as a band, they embarked on a number of concert tours, varying in scale from their initial "DIY" tour of British universities to the epic

. Shortly after forming Wings, the McCartneys took the band on an impromptu tour of the

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in early 1972, showing up unannounced and performing for whoever happened to be on campus. The band's intended first stop on the tour,

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, refused to allow them to play, so the band moved on to the more receptive

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. Admission to the first show was £0.50, proceeds being split up equally among the band members. The last

Concert for the People of Kampuchea Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, Wings, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London during December 1979 to raise mo ...

on 29 December 1979, which was the final date of Wings' fifth tour, was Wings' final gig. However, Wings achieved notoriety for its aborted sixth tour, a January 1980 tour of Japan, which was cancelled before it even started when Paul McCartney was arrested for possession of marijuana while entering Japan on 16 January 1980 and was eventually deported on 25 January after nine days in prison, without Wings ever performing. Wings never again attempted a tour prior to their breakup in 1981.

List of Wings tours

Wings University Tour Wings University Tour was an impromptu UK concert tour by Paul McCartney & Wings in 1972, shortly after the band's formation and initial album release, '' Wild Life''. Wings' lineup for the tour was Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Henry M ...

– 11 shows in the UK, 1972 *

Wings Over Europe Tour In the summer of 1972, Paul McCartney's newly formed band, Wings, set out on a concert tour of Europe, in a double decker bus, WNO 481. Promotion Coming on the heels of a tour of English universities, the Wings Over Europe Tour was intended to ...

– 26 shows throughout Europe, 1972 *

Wings 1973 UK Tour During the spring and early summer of 1973, Paul McCartney's band Wings performed on a twelve-city concert tour of the United Kingdom. Promotion The tour was for the purpose of promoting the band's latest album, ''Red Rose Speedway'', as well ...

– 21 shows in the UK, 1973 *

– 66 shows over the world, 1975–1976 *

Wings UK Tour 1979 On 23 November 1979, Paul McCartney's band Wings began a 19-date concert tour of the United Kingdom to promote their recent album, ''Back to the Egg''. History Wings' lineup for the tour was Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Laurence Juber ...

– 19 shows in the UK, 1979 + 1 show on 29 December 1979 (the last of the 4

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, Wings, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London during December 1979 to raise m ...

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Solo

Solo tours

Solo unique shows

Timeline members

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References

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