On November 13, 1977 'Mull of Kintyre' entered the U.K. charts at #48. It was recorded August 9 1977, during a break from London Town. 'Mull of Kintyre'was named after the Scottish peninsula where McCartney has owned a farm since 1966.
'I certainly loved Scotland enough, so I came up with a song about where we were living: an area called Mull of Kintyre,' McCartney said. ' It was a love song really, about how I enjoyed being there and imagining I was traveling away and wanting to get back there .'
McCartney recorded the guitars outside and brought in the Campbeltown Pipe Band to ply bagpipes. The single would hit #1 over Christmas on its way to selling a record two million copies, the biggest selling hit single until Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'.
The song would later be covered by Glen Campbell.
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