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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
of Kennedy...et al.
LOL, I just watched that movie last week.
As a fan of Irish-Scottish singing group Celtic Thunder, I love “Mull of Kintyre”. Sadly, George Donaldson, the only Scotsman in the group died suddenly at age 46 of a heart attack. All of the current group are from Ireland.
Did you run out of juice?
No Mull berries?
We don't got the mullberries up here in the high Rockies.
Bull berries...oh yeah.
Yes, the other A-side, “Girls School” was pushed here in the states. Did not do much and I never hear it now. Ever.
Maybe it’s kind of creepy for a 35 year old man to be singing about a girls’ school.
photo of Obummer: Mull -atto
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Well that’s not a little disturbing, is it?
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Yeah, Girls School was a bit of a dirty rocker. A big push was made by Capitol with a picture sleeve for the double A-side release back then. Neither song charted well here.
Okay.
I should read the threads instead of just your pings.
Heavens *NO*!
You start that and the next thing you know we’ll
be reading the articles before commenting.
IMHO the best rock song ever to feature bagpipes
AC/DC - It’s a Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock N Roll)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI
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