Mull of Kintyre (song)

"Mull of Kintyre"
Single by Wings
A-side"Girls' School"
Released11 November 1977
Recorded9 August 1977
StudioSpirit of Ranachan, Campbeltown
Genre
Length4:45
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Paul McCartney
Wings singles chronology
"Seaside Woman"
(1977)
"Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School"
(1977)
"With a Little Luck"
(1978)
Music video
”Mull of Kintyre” on YouTube

"Mull of Kintyre" is a song by the British-American rock band Wings. It 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.

The single was Wings' biggest hit in Britain and is one of the best selling singles of all time in the United Kingdom, where it became the 1977 Christmas number one and was the first single to sell over two million copies nationwide.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Paul McCartney Biography". NME. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  2. ^ "UK Top 10 Best Selling Singles". UK Charts. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  3. ^ "Official Charts: Paul McCartney". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 13 October 2011.