“Mull of Kintyre” by Wings

Wings released "Mull of Kintyre" in November 1977, a Scottish folk song that Paul McCartney wrote with Denny Laine and produced himself. It's a tribute to Kintyre, the peninsula down in Scotland's south-west corner, and to the headland that gives the song its name, where McCartney had owned High Park Farm since 1966. The chorus, which doubles as the first verse, sings of the land's natural beauty and the pull of home.

It was years in the making: the song turns up as early as 1974 on a home demo that bootleggers call "The Piano Tape", with the chorus finished and only scraps of the other words. The wait paid off. It became Wings' biggest hit in Britain, the Christmas number one of 1977 and the first single to top two million sales in the UK.

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