![]() ![]() Wings co-founder and drummer Denny Seiwell says that McCartney formed Wings as a way for him to get back to being a working musician: “Really, I believe that it was his need to just get back and perform live under a controlled situation. So from those small beginnings, we gradually formed Wings.” Anyway, we found Nottingham University and went and did a gig there and (then) did a little, kind of, university tour. We just stuck everything in a van - dogs, children, potty - and just went up the motorway without any bookings, without any hotels. So, it was kinda funny looking back on it. ![]() McCartney thought it a good enough idea to revisit as the launch of Wings' live act: “We decided to go back to square one and not form a, sort of, great big 'supergroup' and come out the level the Beatles were at. McCartney's idea of reliving the Beatles' early pre-fame days had actually been his idea for the group the day that John Lennon quit the group in 1969. Although McCartney refused to include any Beatles numbers in the band's set, he couldn't resist performing the group's longtime set-closer, a cover of Little Richard's “Long Tall Sally.” Incidentally, the gig was eight years to the day of the “Fab Four's” debut in America on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was 48 years ago tonight (February 9th, 1972), that Paul McCartney, along with his new band Wings, performed his first solo show at Britain's Nottingham University.
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