Wings Over Yugoslavia

 September 21, 1976 

Injury Clips Wings (1976)

 Injury Clips Wings: McCartney Tour Delayed

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The News of Cumberland County

April 2, 1976

    Paul McCartney and Wings have postponed their American tour because of an injury to one of the group's members. Guitarist Jimmy McCulloch suffered a broken hand when he slipped in a bathroom. The injury came following the conclusion of the group's European tour.

     The American tour, entitled "Wings Over America", was to have encompassed 20 cities and 31 performances. The tour will be herland the debut of Wings in America, and also be McCartney's first personal appearance on a US concert stage in almost 10 years. 

    The ex-Beatle and his group were to have played Spectrum on May 12 and 14th. A spokesman for the group said Tuesday that the tour was being rescheduled to begin in May, but could not say whether the Spectrum dates for the group would be changed.

     Wings over America is the culmination of many months of planning and is the fourth and final leg of the Wings World Tour, which began in England in late 1975 and proceeded to Australia and Europe. Wings will be performing a set lasting between two and two and one half hours with no intermission. New sound and light apparatus, as well as special staging, have been designed especially for the tour.

     Wings will be arriving in the United States directly from Paris, where the group concluded its triumphant European tour on March 26. During the third leg of the World Tour, Wings performed to sold-out houses in Denmark, Holland, and Berlin, Germany. Wings consists of Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Danny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch, and Joe English. The four-member brass section that accompanied Wings in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European segment of the Wings World Tour will perform on the American tour.

     The band will be performing material from all prior Paul McCartney and Wings albums, as well as songs that have been associated with Paul McCartney throughout his career. Also included will be selections from Wings' latest release, Wings at the Speed of Sound, the album, which has recently been released on the Capitol label, includes songs written by Paul and Linda McCartney as well as Jimmy McCulloch and Denny Laine, who will also perform their compositions during the course of the concert tour. 

    The album was certified gold immediately upon its release in the US. The brass section on the tour consists of leader, Tony Dorsey (trombone), who also arranged the horn section on Wings at the Speed of Sound, Steve Howard (trumpet, and fuglehorn), who has been featured on albums with Labelle, and has worked with Alan Tossant. Thaddeus, Richard (flute, sax) has worked with Johnny Taylor and Tony Dorsey over the last few years, and Liverpudlian  Howie Casey (Tenor sax) has backed such music luminaries as Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Wilson Pickett, T Rex, and John Entwistle.

At the Speed of Sound

 

Wings...The New World for Paul McCartney

 Wings...The New World for Paul McCartney

By Tony Jasper

Black County Evening Mail

March 30, 1976

        Paul McCartney sat there. Perhaps he was uncertain to which era he belonged. Was he still a Beatle? After all, here in 1976 "Yesterday", is in the top 20 with "Hey Jude", "Paperback Writer", and "Get Back"  struggling for a fresh chart life.

     In America, promoters talk of sums ranging from 25 million to $100 million as a fee if the four will come together right now.

    "I'm not disappointed", he says, with disarming simplicity "that a lot of people have never heard of The Beatles."

 No more words, but he seemed pleased.

     However, he has other concerns, and if he wonders for a moment, which world he lives in, the sheer reality of a European and American tour for Wings makes the answer definite. Paul is now a Wings man. There is, though, still Beatle blood in him. There could be a come-together for a few dates.

     Paul is with Linda, Jimmy, Joe, and Denny. On this occasion, Jimmy does most of the talking. After all, as he says, "We've much more of a group now. I'm writing so is Linda and Denny is getting things together."

     Their get-together is a launch of the new Wings album, Wings at the Speed of Sound, the successor of Band on the Run and Venus and Mars. Obviously, the album must be good. It can't be anything else with such pedigree. 

    Jimmy says it's got variety. "It's good, good songs. Linda here has a five minute song, "Cook of the House", and I got one called "Wino Junko", a warning for those who want to get messed up. Paul has a beaut called "Warm and Beautiful". It will be a big, big one.

     "I think the album takes off much more than previous ones because Wings is really flowing as a group. We stayed together and have now established a real basic feel. And our coming tours of Europe, Scandinavia, and 32 32-date trip through the States will be playing stuff from all our albums and right back to Paul's own beginning days after he left the Beatles, he will be singing "Lady Madonna" and "The Long and Winding Road"

    . The group says Britain should see them in the autumn, but if that seems ages, then Jimmy and company, not unnaturally, say take time and hear Wings at the Speed of Sound.  And for Jimmy, "This latest album is the peak moment of my career. It's that good."