McCartney Times

It’s 50 years this week since Paul McCartney and Wings played a gig at Lancaster University’s Great Hall.

The concert formed part of the Wings University Tour in 1972, shortly after the band’s formation and initial album release, Wild Life. The Lancaster date was the fifth night in what turned out to be an eleven-date tour of England.

Documented on Sir Paul’s official website, Sir Paul, his wife Linda, their children, two roadies and his Wings bandmates – Denny Laine, Henry McCullough, and Denny Seiwell – set off from his house in St John’s Wood, London, in a truck and a caravan and headed north.

Sir Paul is quoted as saying: “We went off on our little university tour, which was great.

“It was very ballsy to do, really, I couldn’t think of anything else. It didn’t feel ballsy at the time, it just felt like, well, what else do I do? We literally took off in a van up the M1, got to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, liked that name, ‘Great! Turn off here’. But there wasn’t a gig, there was just a little village and nothing else there. It was a signpost.

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Source: It’s 50 years this week since Paul McCartney rocked Lancaster University’s Great Hall – Beyond Radio