Paul McCartney performed on at Omnilife Stadium at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, his first concert in that city. For the first time in 19 years, McCartney performed the song " Hope of Deliverance" in Bogotá, Colombia, on 19 April, being it the very first time that he performed a song from Off the Ground album with his current line-up. Paul performed for a 32,000 crowd at the Stadium El Campin for more than two hours and a half and declared that the audience in the show where possibly the best one he have had during all his career. Hours before McCartney performed for the very first time in Colombia, less than 900 tickets had not been sold, which made the concert a sold-out show. Days before the concert 2,000 extra tickets became available and sold-out in a couple of days.
On 27 March, 29,000 tickets for McCartney's 19 April first ever show in Colombia became available 24 hours later 90% of the tickets were already sold. He claimed after the show in his website that "he will never forget the lively Paraguayan crowd". In the Defensores del Chaco stadium he gave a show for more than 30,000 fans (29,000 sold tickets). The artist also visited Asunción, Paraguay for the first time in his career. On 15 April, McCartney performed for over a 54,000 sold-out crowd in the Estadio Centenario for the first time in Uruguay. In Montevideo, Uruguay all tickets were sold-out in about 40 minutes. McCartney's Detroit, Chicago and Cincinnati stadium gigs were hugely anticipated returns to cities with that have hosted historical performances in the past: The 24 July Comerica Park and 31 July Wrigley Field shows were his first visits to the Detroit area and Chicago since 2005 (McCartney has not performed within Detroit City limits since 1976 during the Wings Over America Tour), while the 4 August Great American Ball Park was his first Cincinnati appearance in 18 years, his last show in the city being on The New World Tour in 1993. McCartney also performed on three more dates on the tour: 24 July at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, 31 July at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, and 4 August at The Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. In response to overwhelming popular demand for tickets to McCartney's 15 July Yankee Stadium debut, a second date was added for Saturday, 16 July. In the end a Lagos musician was used, but only when the band were back in London.Īs a peace offering to Ginger and Fela, Wings did record at ARC studios for a day, to record the backing track of Picasso's Last Words.Paul McCartney at Wrigley Field, 1 August 2011 In actual fact, Wings were intending to use local musicians but scrapped the idea after the accusation had been made. One of them,Fela Ransome-Kuti, went on local radio accusing Paul of coming to Lagos to use and exploit African musicians for his financial gain and popularity. Its thought that drummer Denny Seiwell had got wind of what was going on and was the main reason why he bailed out on the eve of Wings trip to Africa.Īs can be imagined, Ginger wasn't happy at having been used in such an underhand way (having an ex-Beatle at his new studio would have been great publicity) and some of Ginger's associates started to get heavy with the band whilst they were working at EMI studios. (Denny knew Ginger from their Airforce days so was used to soften the blow of the bad news) Paul had gone along with this plan and then told Denny Laine once in Africa that he was the one who had to inform Ginger of the 'change of plan'.
So the equipment was then transported to the EMI studio Having entered the country though, EMI then made it clear that Wings had to record at their studio since Wings were EMI's artists.
It was Ginger and his associates through their connections with the local government who had secured the visas required for Wings to enter the country to work. When Wings flew in, their equipment was taken directly to Ginger's studio by the roadies,Ian Horn & Trevor Jones. Officially, the original plan was for Wings to record the whole of Band On The Run at Ginger's newly opended ARC recording studio.
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