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Mull of Kintyre - Looking back on a Scottish mega-hit
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| 18 August 2017
| David Allison
Posted on 08/22/2017 6:10:27 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa
The late summer might seem like a strange time to write and record a Christmas number one but that is exactly what happened on a Kintyre farm 40 years ago this month.
The song in question was Paul McCartney's "Mull of Kintyre", co-written with Denny Laine and featuring the local Campbeltown Pipe Band.
For a number of years it was the biggest-selling single of all time, and was the first UK single to sell more than two million copies.
Co-writer Laine had joined McCartney's group Wings in 1971, having previously enjoyed chart success with The Moody Blues, and over the next decade they wrote a number of songs together.
One morning at breakfast while staying at the former Beatle's High Park Farm on the Kintyre peninsula, McCartney played Laine the chorus of a new song.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: pipesanddrums; scotland
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:11:21 AM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: sionnsar; LibreOuMort; golux; marsh2; Sparky1776; brushcop; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; ...
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:15:48 AM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: ConorMacNessa
Mull of Martin......................
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:20:46 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Mull of Let - 
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:26:23 AM PDT
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shibumi
(Bee Neeth the Mambo Sun, I *GOT* to be The One)
To: Red Badger
Mull of Festus.
To: Fightin Whitey; Red Badger
Mull of Itover - 
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:31:56 AM PDT
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shibumi
(Bee Neeth the Mambo Sun, I *GOT* to be The One)
To: Red Badger
I love “Mull of Kintyre”.
Mull of Martin had his moments as well....and I really did LOL...
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08/22/2017 6:32:44 AM PDT
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McGarrett
(Book'em Danno)
To: ConorMacNessa
Mull of Knoxville
To: ConorMacNessa
Hell,I have Scot blood in me and all I think of when I think of Scotland is haggis.
To: ConorMacNessa
Mull a-tov Cocktail
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:38:30 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: ConorMacNessa
Piper Down!
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:40:52 AM PDT
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TADSLOS
(Reset Underway!)
To: shibumi; Fightin Whitey; McGarrett; Colonel Kangaroo; Cincinatus; TADSLOS; ConorMacNessa
Mull of Wine..................
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:53:02 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Mull of Igan.
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:53:21 AM PDT
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FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: shibumi
Mull of Murica.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Listened to them when I was kid.....................
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08/22/2017 6:53:47 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:55:11 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: FredZarguna
Mull of Iganstew................
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posted on
08/22/2017 6:56:44 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: ConorMacNessa
McCartney plays Mull of Kintyre live, accompanied by a local pipes and drums group who make a grand entrance on stage, for UK and Canada audiences only. He doesn’t play it in the States as the single did not do well here.
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08/22/2017 7:06:23 AM PDT
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kristinn
(Serving ten to life in paradise)
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