The band arrived from Lund in Sweden, and after being checked by customs upon entering Denmark, they drove to Funen and installed themselves at Hotel Hesselet in Nyborg.

There has been much confusion about the date of this concert. Everywhere on the internet it says August 12th, but there is no doubt that the concert was held on Sunday, August 13th. There is nothing written in the Danish press that suggests otherwise (see the contract with Fyens Forum below)

The Wings tour bus was parked close to the entrance of Fyens Forum. Detailed info about the Wings tour bus can be found here

Setlist

An audience recording of the show can be found on Youtube. The encore 'Long Tall Sally' is missing from the tape

- Eddie Troelsgaard

As soon as the concert in Fyens Forum was announced, it was decided that I should get tickets for my girlfriend, myself and a good friend, Preben, who was also a big Beatles fan. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the ticket, which I would definitely have done today.

Here in May 2025, I will have to dig deep into my memory to remember how it went all those years ago. We did not enter through the main door which had the Fyens Forum’s name above it, but through a side door on the opposite side, because to our right we saw the band’s beautiful, painted tour bus, "Wings over Europe", parked along the wall at the back entrance. I am not quite sure how we came to know that it would be wise to use this entrance; however, it gave us this opportunity to see the tour bus.

We arrived well in time and waited outside. The band played very loudly so we could hear them outside during soundcheck. I remember their warm-up was “Hi, Hi, Hi”. That raised the excitement quite a bit, because I had previously bought both that single and “Give Ireland back to the Irish”.

The stage curtain was drawn when we entered the concert hall. We found our numbered seats somewhere in row 15-20. Seen from today's perspective, it iwas a bit surreal that the audience were sitting calmly and disciplined in the seats. I took some photos where a backdrop of white canvas with a flying seagull can be seen. In addition to two podiums with spotlights, a podium with a “cinema machine” was showing Wings-inspired movie clips.

There had been some talk about Linda being an amateur musician, and I remember that Paul gave Linda a certain look at one point, she might have been playing a wrong note or something, but in the noise from the audience I hadn’t noticed.

There was no railing in front of the stage, as there certainly would have been today. Therefore it was easy to get quite close to the band, but strangely enough, the audience stayed in their seats.

I had brought my SLR camera with a 135 mm telephoto lens and a fast 27-din film, so that I didn't have to use a flash. Otherwise, I would probably have been turned away. Unfortunately, without the flash, some of the pictures turned up a bit blurry. But it was worth it. There were no security guards in front of the stage. As I later found out by contacting the local archives in Odense in 2003, security was at the host’s expense. McCartney apparently had no bodyguards with him, only some roadies. There were four checkers from 5:00 p.m. and 10 from 6:00 p.m. I took a few pictures from my seat. Later I sneaked out of my seat and got closer to the stage. Finally, I went all the way up right in front of the band to get some shots of Paul McCartney and Henry McCullough in particular. I managed to get some shots of Paul where he was wearing a crocheted vest and later a glittery outfit.

My photos remained well hidden until an acquaintance saw them in 2000 and got pretty excited. He had just learned that MPL (McCartney Production Limited) were looking for photos for the upcoming DVD “Wingspan”, so he contacted MPL. This resulted in me getting a call in February 2000 from Sophie Bywater from MPL. A contract was signed and sent. My name appears twice in the epilogue.

After the contact from MPL, I created a website where I posted all my photos. In September 2003, I was contacted by Joanne Richton, who was the editor of a small pop magazine in Great Britain. She wanted to use the photo of Henry McCullough when she had an appointment with him for an interview in Belfast. I sent her three copies – one for her, one for Henry and one for me which later would be returned with with a signature from Henry, who played in Joe Cocker's Grease Band during Woodstock in 1969. It was a bit blurry, but to a good effect. Henry McCullough, who sadly passed away in 2016, later expressed this. He also wrote that his beloved guitar, an old Gibson 335, had been stolen after concerts in Poland, presumably during luggage handling at the airport.

An unforgettable concert in Odense in 1972 that brought me so many spin-off benefits. Later on I heard Paul McCartney in Hannover, Hamburg and in Horsens.