Wings live: Fyns Forum, Odense – 12 August 1972

Saturday 12 August 1972 | Live, Paul McCartney, Wings

Wings performed at the Fyns Forum in Odense, Denmark, on 12 August 1972 — the 17th night of the Wings Over Europe Tour. The previous night’s show had been at the Olympen in Lund, Sweden, where McCartney had referenced the drugs bust in Gothenburg two nights earlier from the stage.

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The line-up for the Wings Over Europe Tour was: Paul McCartney (vocals, guitar, bass guitar), Linda McCartney (vocals, keyboards), Denny Laine (vocals, guitar, bass guitar), Henry McCullough (guitar, vocals), and Denny Seiwell (drums).

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Concert setlist

1. ‘Eat At Home’
2. ‘Smile Away’
3. ‘Bip Bop’
4. ‘Mumbo’
5. ‘‘1882’
6. ‘I Would Only Smile’
7. ‘Give Ireland Back to the Irish’
8. ‘Blue Moon Of Kentucky’
9. ‘The Mess’
10. ‘Best Friend’
11. ‘Soily’
12. ‘I Am Your Singer’
13. ‘Seaside Woman’
14. ‘Henry’s Blues’
15. ‘Say You Don’t Mind’
16. ‘Wild Life’
17. ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’
18. ‘My Love’
19. ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
20. ‘Hi, Hi, Hi’

Note that ‘Long Tall Sally’ and ‘I’m Down’, which occasionally closed the set on other nights, were not performed at Odense. ‘Give Ireland Back to the Irish’ — banned by the BBC following its February 1972 release in response to Bloody Sunday — remained a deliberate fixture in the live set throughout the tour.

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Wings Over Europe Tour dates

• 9 July 1972: Châteauvallon, Ollioules, France
• 12 July 1972: Théâtre de la Mer, Juan-les-Pins, France
• 13 July 1972: Théâtre Antique, Arles, France
• 16 July 1972: Olympia Theatre, Paris, France
• 18 July 1972: Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
• 19 July 1972: Stadthalle, Offenbach am Main, Germany
• 21 July 1972: Tonhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
• 22 July 1972: Pavillon, Montreux, Switzerland
• 1 August 1972: KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 4 August 1972: Messuhalli, Helsinki, Finland
• 5 August 1972: Kupittaan Urheiluhalli, Turku, Finland
• 7 August 1972: Gröna Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
• 8 August 1972: Idrottshuset, Örebro, Sweden
• 9 August 1972: Njårdhallen, Oslo, Norway
• 10 August 1972: Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 11 August 1972: Olympen, Lund, Sweden
• 12 August 1972: Fyns Forum, Odense, Denmark
• 14 August 1972: Vejlby-Risskov Hallen, Aarhus, Denmark
• 16 August 1972: Rheinhalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 17 August 1972: De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 19 August 1972: Martinihal, Groningen, Netherlands
• 20 August 1972: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 21 August 1972: Congresgebouw, The Hague, Netherlands
• 22 August 1972: Kinema Roma, Antwerp, Belgium
• 24 August 1972: Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany

Fyns Forum, Odense

Odense, Denmark — where Wings performed at the Fyns Forum on 12 August 1972, the 17th night of the Wings Over Europe Tour.

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