50 Years Ago Today: Paul McCartney Wraps Up the Greatest Tour of His Post-Beatles Career

Wings concluded their “Wings Over the World” tour with three nights at London’s Empire Pool in October 1976, marking a high point in Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles live career. The concerts showed how far the band had come since its tentative early shows and helped meet fans’ demand to hear McCartney perform live, including Beatles material.

The tour ran from September 1975 to October 1976, with 62 concerts across Europe, Australia and North America. As Wings gained hits from *Band on the Run*, *Venus and Mars* and *Wings at the Speed of Sound*, McCartney added songs such as “Jet”, “Let ’Em In” and “Lady Madonna” to the set; one reviewer described the final London performance as exhilarating and brilliantly executed.