Paul McCartney | 1972 Wings Tour Bus Up For Bid | Join the Tour Around London and Bid Now!

Join Julien's Auctions Co-Founder, Martin Nolan and Beatles Secretary, Freda Kelly as they take Paul McCartney's 1972 Wings Tour bus out for a joy ride to several of the Beatles most iconic London locations.

You can bid on this historic bus going up for auction this November 16th during Julien's very own "Played, Worn ,& Torn Rock 'N Roll Iconic Guitars and Memorabilia Auction", taking place at the Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee.

Below is a bit of information about his incredible bus...

PAUL MCCARTNEY | 1972 WINGS TOUR BRISTOL DOUBLE-DECKER BUS

An original, fully-restored 1953 Bristol KSW double-decker bus known as WNO 481 that was used by Paul McCartney and the band Wings in 1972 as the tour bus for the "Wings Over Europe" tour.

During Wings' 1972 "Wings Over Europe" tour, this bus traveled over 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) through nine countries across Europe, including France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Paul McCartney stated in an interview, "We knew we were going to tour in Europe and that the weather would be nice, and the idea of being stuck in a bus all the time, going from city to city, hotel to hotel, wasn’t too appealing so we decided to travel around in an open-top bus and got some sunshine as we traveled from one place to another.”

Paul continued, "We painted the outside psychedelic, like a magic bus. If you look at it very straight, very conventionally, it was quite a mad thing to do, to put a playpen on the top deck of the bus and put all the children in there while driving around Europe. It was not what you'd expect from a normal band. But we weren't a normal band."

McCartney also stated, “If we are going to be in Europe in the summer going to places like the south of France it's just silly to be in some little box all day gasping for air so we came up with this idea to have an open deck, upper deck kind of thing. We've got some mattresses up there so we can just cruise along, fantastic, lie around and get the sun."

This bus played a vital part in the image of the new band, which consisted of Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Henry McCullough, and Denny Seiwell. Denny Seiwell mentioned in an interview, "We had wives and kids with us, and an image of the Beatles. Nobody wanted to be drunk or high. We thought it was very important that we gave our best performances because we knew we were going to be judged based on the last time people saw the biggest band in the world."

The original psychedelic artwork design seen on the sides of the bus was completed by renowned artist Geoffrey Cleghorn, who modeled its design after the styling of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine album cover. Cleghorn was notable for his impressive work with bands such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, and others. This artwork was later recreated during WNO 481's restoration process, bringing the iconic bus back to life.

The interior of the bus has been restored with painstaking detail to bring it back to the same condition it would have been in during the 1972 tour. The refinished interior is complimented by wooden bunk beds, which the band member's children would have slept on, and an original Wings tour trunk that was donated to the project by Denny Weiwell. Around the perimeter of the lower cabin are bright yellow curtains that accent the psychedelic paint scheme of the exterior.

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