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 October 27, 2005 

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.

On the bus

 September 13, 1975

Up on the bus

 

Reading to the kids

 

Going to Scotland

 May 23, 1973

Going far

 August 4, 1972 - Finland 

Wings over Europe

 July 21, 1972

Colorful Wings

 

Wonder Wings

 

Spotting Ringo on a bus

 

Relaxing on the tour bus

 

Going to Helsinki

 

Get on the bus

 

Silly Girls!

 

Hello Mtv -- welcome to our Crib

Baby Wings

Love on the bus

Is the Wings tour bus making a return????

If you follow this blog, then you know that we have a love for the 1972 Wings tour bus.   What is there not to love?    It is painted in crazy colors, rumored to have been painted by Paul McCartney himself and has an open top where Paul and his family along with the members Wings at the time used to hang out and "chill."   

Over the years, we saw it listed on Craigslist and  sitting in a  dump.   But now--- there is a bit of hope that it might be returning!    Paul McCartney's twitter account posted this today:

Say what??  There is a rumor that the bus is back on the road?  Do tell!   Then Brian Ray posted some of these photos:

I don't know what is going on and by the looks of these photos, the bus is in sad shape, but could still be fixed up.     I know it isn't as important as the Magical Mystery tour bus, but it is an important historical bus in Paul McCartney history.     It needs to be fixed up and on display at a museum like the Rock n Roll Hall of fame (or some place like that ---  I am not picky).    I just hate to think of it rusting away in a landfill when it could make a lot of us fans happy to take photos in front of it.

Wings' Magical Mystery Tour