The Paul McCartney World Tour
| Tour by Paul McCartney | |
Cover of the tour booklet
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| Associated album | Flowers in the Dirt |
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| Start date | 26 September 1989 |
| End date | 29 July 1990 |
| Legs | 9 |
| No. of shows | 103 48 in Europe, 47 in North America 6 in Asia 2 in South America |
| Paul McCartney concert chronology | |
The Paul McCartney World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by Paul McCartney during 1989 and 1990. It was McCartney's first major tour outing in ten years, since Wings UK Tour 1979, and his first appearances in North America in thirteen years, since the 1976 Wings Over America Tour. It was also his first tour under his name.
While the tour coincided with the release of his Flowers in the Dirt album, it was thematically more about his finally embracing his Beatles past, including for the first time, in any of his tours, a substantial number of Beatles songs in the set list.
The tour was documented by the 1990 live albums Tripping the Live Fantastic and Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights!, and the 1991 concert film Get Back. A one-hour tour documentary was also aired on Channel 4 TV in the UK, titled From Rio to Liverpool.
Attendees to the concerts received, free of additional charge, a lavish 9x12-inch 98-page booklet. It contained the tour itinerary, lengthy profiles of each of the band members, descriptions of the tour's stage and logistics, and an extended description of Friends of the Earth's mission. Two-thirds of the booklet consisted of McCartney's reflections upon his life and career, illustrated by many photographs.
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