Band on the Run by Bus (1975)

 Band on the Run by Bus

By Donald Bruce

Daily Record

September 19, 1975

    You'd think that with a group called Wings, Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, would travel by plane, but they don't. They go by luxury coach.

     In our exclusive picture, Paul, Linda, and their three-year-old daughter Stella are on their way to Scotland. They star in Edinburgh tomorrow. They come to Glasgow on Sunday with dates after that, in Aberdeen and Dundee. All are complete sellouts.

     The McCartneys and their children (Heather, 13, and Mary, five, are the other two.) go by coach because they like it that way. "It's different," they say.  It's a hired coach, but on it is a bar, and a kitchen where Linda and a nanny do the cooking. Music plays all the time, and of course, there's a color television. 

    This is the last tour Paul will do in Britain for about two years because of his commitments abroad. The fans stopped his show twice in Liverpool this week, with their clamor for "more and more and more" because Paul, still steeped in nostalgia as an ex-Beatle, sings a song like "Yesterday."

     Paul doesn't attempt to explain his success as a solo and group performer the second time around; he doesn't need any explanations. His music does that for him.

    Out today comes his new single, taken from his album. It's called "Letting Go." Sounds appropriate.