Let’s remember when Paul McCartney played the first ever concert at the Kingdome, on this day in 1976 (June 10)
It was a decade before Paul McCartney embarked on a tour following the breakup of the Beatles. His new band, Wings, embarked on its “Wings Across America/The World” tour, and included a stop 43 years ago today at the Kingdome. It was also the first time a rock concert would be performed in the Kingdome.
The Kingdome was universally reviled for its acoustics and for being an unwelcome place to see concerts, but you wouldn’t have known that until long after the Wings concert, which was very well received. McCartney and Wings immortalized the show by including much of it in the concert film Rockshow.
Rockshow is a 1980 concert film release by Paul McCartney and Wings, filmed during the band’s 1976 North American tour. The film features 30 songs from segments of four concerts of the tour: New York, on 25 May (four songs); Seattle, Washington, 10 June (five songs); and Los Angeles, California, 22 June (fifteen songs) and 23 June (six songs).[2] Both the cover of the home video release and McCartney himself in his intro to The McCartney Years DVD acknowledge only the Seattle concert, however. These concerts were part of the 1975–76 Wings Over the World tour, which also produced the triple live album Wings over America (1976) and the Wings Over the World television documentary (1979). This is also the first film released by Miramax.
Here’s what the setlist looked like:
And here’s the concert in embeddable video form:
