Single:
Mull of Kintyre entered the Australian singles chart* on 28 November 1977. The single reached #1 in Australia on 12 December 1977 and held the top spot for 11 successive weeks. The song was #1 on the Top 100 of 1977.
Songwriters:
Paul McCartney, Denny Laine
Producer:
Paul McCartney
Record label of Australian release:
Capitol
Music video:
The official music video was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and filmed at Saddell Bay on the eastern side of the Kintyre peninsula about 11 kilometres from High Park Farm, two months after recording the song. Paul, Linda and Denny perform the song as they overlook the bay and walk down to the beach where the Campbeltown Pipe Band are marching and playing. It culminates in a bonfire singalong with extras from Campbeltown.
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS CLIP BELOW – Denny Laine talks about Mull of Kintyre
Wikipedia:
Mull of Kintyre was written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine in tribute to the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute in the south-west of Scotland and its headland, the Mull of Kintyre, where McCartney has owned High Park Farm since 1966.
McCartney explained how the song came into being:
“I certainly loved Scotland enough, so I came up with a song about where we were living: an area called Mull of Kintyre. It was a love song really, about how I enjoyed being there and imagining I was travelling away and wanting to get back there.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mull_of_Kintyre_(song)
Lyrics:
Mull of Kintyre
Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh, Mull of Kintyre
Far have I travelled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green
Past painted deserts the sunsets on fire
As he carries me home to the Mull of Kintyre
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