The New World Tour Explained

In 1993, Paul McCartney and his band embarked upon The New World Tour, spanning almost the entire year and almost the entire globe. This tour featured a controversial pre-concert film (starting in the U.S leg of the tour), which was shown before all of the concerts and had graphic animal test footage in the film. The tour incorporated painted stage sets (at the time the world's largest, measuring 16,400 square feet), projections, and promotional material designed by a regular McCartney collaborator, the artist Brian Clarke.

The 1993 World Tour was Paul's last tour for nine years, after his wife and band member Linda McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, as well as Linda's last tour during her lifetime, before she died in 1998 at the age of 56.

Promotion

The tour was intended to promote McCartney's ninth studio album Off the Ground. Despite having released three albums of live material in the space of the previous three years (Tripping the Live Fantastic, , and Unplugged), the tour was followed by the live album Paul Is Live, consisting of material taken from The New World Tour. However, the release was not embraced by record-buyers, becoming McCartney's lowest-selling live album.

Touring

McCartney's touring band consisted of himself, wife Linda McCartney, Hamish Stuart, Robbie McIntosh, Paul "Wix" Wickens and Blair Cunningham. The final North American stop, in Charlotte, North Carolina, was broadcast live across the United States, with some songs replaced by commercials, by the Fox Television Network. This was McCartney's final tour of the 20th century. Several venues on the tour featured McCartney's first concert appearance there since his touring days with The Beatles.

This was the third and second times Paul McCartney toured Australia and New Zealand, respectively. A proposed further tour to Australia in 2002 was cancelled after the Bali Bombings. His next visit to Australia and New Zealand finally occurred for the first time in over twenty-four years on the One on One tour in 2017. In 1993, before Paul McCartney played the South American leg of the tour, Parlophone/MPL released the album Paul Is Live which had songs taken from his concerts in North America and Australia.In 2002, Paul McCartney released a concert DVD from the tour titled Paul Is Live in Concert on the New World Tour.

Personnel

• Paul McCartney  - lead vocals, guitars (acoustic, electric and bass), piano, drums
• Linda McCartney  - backing vocals, keyboards, percussion, autoharp
• Hamish Stuart  - backing vocals, guitars (acoustic, electric, acoustic bass and electric bass)
• Robbie McIntosh  - backing vocals, guitars (electric and acoustic)
• Paul "Wix" Wickens  - backing vocals, keyboards, accordion, acoustic guitar, percussion
• Blair Cunningham  - drums, percussion

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Tickets sold / Available	Revenue
Europe
18 February 1993			Forum di Assago
19 February 1993
22 February 1993			Festhalle
23 February 1993
Oceania
5 March 1993			Subiaco Oval
9 March 1993			Melbourne Cricket Ground
10 March 1993
13 March 1993			Adelaide Oval
16 March 1993				27,880 / 30,000	$1,150,443
17 March 1993
20 March 1993
22 March 1993			Parramatta Stadium
23 March 1993
27 March 1993			Western Springs Stadium
North America
14 April 1993		United States		30,850 / 30,850	$1,002,625
17 April 1993				48,560 / 48,560	$1,698,410
20 April 1993				30,058 / 30,058	$1,002,625
22 April 1993				38,728 / 38,728	$1,258,660
24 April 1993				38,971 / 41,211	$843,850
27 April 1993				42,003 / 42,003	$1,013,364
29 April 1993				43,866 / 43,866	$1,202,468
1 May 1993				46,352 / 46,352	$1,301,820
5 May 1993				38,000 / 40,000	$1,156,513
7 May 1993				37,646 / 39,662	$858,089
9 May 1993				42,614 / 42,614	$1,163,061
21 May 1993				37,430 / 45,095	$1,038,964
23 May 1993		United States		40,287 / 40,287	$1,187,680
26 May 1993				37,245 / 39,137	$1,210,463
29 May 1993				46,716 / 46,716	$1,513,200
31 May 1993				42,934 / 42,934	$1,132,576
2 June 1993				47,013 / 47,013	$1,527,923
4 June 1993				49,378 / 49,378	$1,291,778
6 June 1993		Canada		32,442 / 40,000	$922,200
11 June 1993		United States		53,013 / 53,013	$1,722,923
13 June 1993				45,711 / 45,711	$1,288,394
15 June 1993			Blockbuster Pavilion
Europe (second leg)
3 September 1993	Berlin	Germany	Waldbühne
5 September 1993			Wiener Stadthalle
6 September 1993
9 September 1993		Germany	Olympiahalle
11 September 1993	London		Earls Court
14 September 1993
15 September 1993
18 September 1993		Germany	Westfalenhalle
19 September 1993
21 September 1993
23 September 1993			Hanns-Martin Schleyerhalle
25 September 1993			Scandinavium
27 September 1993			Oslo Spektrum
28 September 1993
1 October 1993		Sweden	The Globe
3 October 1993		Germany	Maimarkthalle
5 October 1993	Stuttgart		Hanns-Martin Schleyerhalle
6 October 1993			Festhalle
9 October 1993			Ahoy Sportpaleis
10 October 1993
13 October 1993	Paris		Palais Onmisports de Bercy
14 October 1993
17 October 1993			Flanders Expo
20 October 1993		France	The Zenith
22 October 1993		Italy	Palasport
23 October 1993
26 October 1993			Palau Sant Jordi
27 October 1993
Asia
12 November 1993	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome
14 November 1993
15 November 1993
18 November 1993			Fukuoka Dome
19 November 1993
North America (second leg)
25 November 1993				101,910 / 101,910	$6,564,416
27 November 1993
South America
3 December 1993			Estádio do Pacaembu
5 December 1993			Pedreira Paulo Leminski
10 December 1993			Estadio River Plate
11 December 1993
12 December 1993
16 December 1993			Estadio Nacional
TOTAL				285,952 / 297,973 (96%)	$7,874,398

Instruments played by band members

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Songs	Paul McCartney	Stuart	McIntosh	Wix	Cunningham	Linda McCartney
align=	"Drive My Car"	Bass	Electric guitar	Electric guitar	Keyboards	Drums	Tambourine
align=	"Coming Up"						Keyboards
align=	"Looking for Changes"						Tambourine
align=	"Jet" or "Another Day"		Electric guitar or Acoustic guitar		Keyboards or Acoustic guitar		Keyboards
align=	"All My Loving"		Acoustic guitar		Acoustic guitar		Tambourine
align=	"Let Me Roll It"	Electric guitar	Bass		Keyboards		Keyboards
align=	"Peace in the Neighbourhood"
align=	"Off the Ground"						Bell Stick
align=	"Can't Buy Me Love"						Keyboards
align=	Robbie's Bit	None	None	Acoustic guitar	None	None	None
align=	"Good Rockin' Tonight"	Acoustic guitar	Acoustic bass		Accordion	Drums	Drum
align=	"We Can Work It Out"						Tambourine
align=	"I Lost My Little Girl" or "And I Love Her"				Maracas or Keyboards		Shaker or Keyboards
align=	"Ain't No Sunshine" or "Every Night"	Drums or Acoustic guitar			Keyboards	Triangle or Drums	Shaker or Tambourine
align=	"Hope of Deliverance"	Acoustic guitar	Bass		Acoustic guitar	Drums	Autoharp
align=	"Michelle"				Shaker/Accordion		Maracas
align=	"Biker Like an Icon"			Electric guitar	Accordion		Keyboards
align=	"Here, There and Everywhere"			Acoustic guitar
align=	"Yesterday"		None	None	Keyboards	None	None
align=	"My Love"	Piano	Bass	Electric guitar		Drums	Keyboards
align=	"Lady Madonna"						Tambourine
align=	"C'Mon People"						Keyboards
align=	"Magical Mystery Tour"
align=	"Let It Be"
align=	"Live and Let Die"
align=	"The Long and Winding Road" (only in some cities)
align=	"Paperback Writer"	Bass	Electric guitar
align=	"Fixing a Hole" (only in some cities)
align=	"Back in the U.S.S.R."
align=	"Penny Lane"
align=	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)"	Electric guitar	Bass
align=	"Band on the Run"	Bass	Electric guitar/Acoustic guitar
align=	"I Saw Her Standing There"		Electric guitar
align=	"Hey Jude"	Piano	Bass				Tambourine/Keyboards