Girls Travel 7000 Miles on The Wing of a Prayer
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Liverpool Echo
September 13, 1975
Pop Star Paul McCartney won't have too far to travel when he returns to Liverpool for his Empire Theater concert on Monday, just from Birmingham, where he and his group Wings are performing tonight.
The distance, however, is just a stone's throw by comparison with the journey some girls are making to be at the Empire concert. Among the letters to the theater asking for tickets was one from Cindy Rosenthal, who lives in San Diego, California, over 7000 miles from Liverpool.
Cindy wrote that she and two friends were on their way and enclosed money for tickets, because "this concert means so much to us."
Her request and others from girls on similar treks from Minnesota and New Jersey presented the theater with a problem. All tickets for the ex-Beatle's appearance, his first at the Empire since May 1973, had been sold within 24 hours.
But their enthusiasm has been rewarded. The management has somehow contrived to squeeze the girls into the auditorium with more than 2500 others. Extra staff will be drafted in for a concert which approaches and scales those given at the Empire by the Osmonds and the Bay City Rollers, although assistant manager Mr. George Woodward doesn't anticipate any trouble.
Liverpool is the sixth concert in Wings' 13-date tour of the country, which is the first stage of a world tour encompassing Australia, Japan, and the United States. Paul McCartney and his band, wife, Linda Denny Laine, and new faces Jimmy McCullouch and Joe English will play a two-hour set without a support group.
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