Tomorrow / Paul & Linda McCartney

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That postponed Wings' tour in 1976
it was probably at the end of March. In February DC was in Colorado recording 'Gettin' It In The Street' with Gerry, Dewey, Ricky, Henry and some other friends. And we know that on March 20 he sang on the French tv  'Run and Hide', and on March 28 (still in Paris), 'On Fire'. With Steve Ross..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78YHPADwNo

And when in Paris he spent some time with Paul McCartney and his band.

Denny Laine : 'We were in Paris. Wings had just done a great show.(..) Afterwards we shuffled down to this press conference when we met up with our old pal David Cassidy. I remember Paul struggling to answer all these typically mundane  questions from the media while David did his best to crack us up, making faces and stuff just behind the camera.' (Geoffrey Giulliano : Blackbird. The Life and Times of Paul McCartney, 1988) I've also read that there was an interview on one of those French programmes with Paul, Denny and David. But that's all I know.

'Run And Hide'. This is the only video of that performance left on YT..(there was another one posted by Gary..I've forgotten his surname, but it's disappeard)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYMKlNrcPs

The Wings' leading guitarist Jimmy McCulloch from Scotland. A wonder kid, born in 1953 and debuted on stage in 1967, he played and recorded with Pete Townshend, John Mayall. Very talented guitarist, beautiful boy, but also very troubled soul, difficult to work with. He joined Wings in August 1974.

Philip Norman, Paul McCartney : The Life, 2015 : ' During February's European leg, (in 1976), he (Jimmy) had a boozy scuffle with another angelic-looking popstar, David Cassidy, in a Paris hotel bar, sustaining a broken finger that left him unable to play his guitar. Departure for the US tour had to be put behind. The media were told Jimmy had slipped on the wet marble floor while getting out of his hotel bath'...He died in 1979, only 26, of heart failure due to morphine and alcohol poisoning.

But of course the most important is David's cover of Tomorrow. The original, recorded by Wings in 1971 is charming and lovely, a happy man singing, he loves and he is loved, they are going to have some rest, spend a nice time..a picnic in the park. That's all.

David's version..is..not charming. Passion, longing, desire. He has to go out of town with this (lucky) girl, regardless the weather, bread and cheese..they're not very important. David's voice is raspy, powerful, this is his song, about his emotions, and the way he looked..Amazing performance. Paul McCartney praised DC's cover. I always show this video when I'm asked about my blog. Such a conversation usually looks like that :

'So you write a blog..How interesting! Can I read it?'    'But it's in English'    ' In English! You know English so well ? Why? What the blog is all about?'    'David Cassidy'    'Who? First heard.'     'That's why I write in English. He is unknown in Poland'    'Can I see a video or something?'

They watch DC singing 'Tomorrow' ..and nearly always ( like Mrs Neugast about Muldoon's Point) : "So this is David Cassidy..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsuhi6UnX-k


Cropped version by Howcheng; original photograph by Jim Summaria., CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

DC pic courtesy of DC Official website.

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