Mull of Kintyre

[Drop Dead Fred]

Been a musician most of my life and I absolutely refuse to play this steaming pile of old shite!

I've been a bagpiper for half of my 40 years on this planet and even I refuse to willingly play this steaming pile of old shite! It's one of those tunes I only ever bring out of the mental safety cage if somebody absolutely, desperately, has to have it played at their dear old Uncle Jim's or Aunty Morag's funeral. As an end-to-end solo piece, it just doesn't quite work on the pipes. The Campbeltown Pipe Band actually sound quite good on the record though.

[Keebleman]

I was nine when this was number one and even then I was bewildered by its popularity.  First single to sell two million copies!  I would ask people at school if they liked it, never found anyone who said yes.

[Keebleman]

It was discussed on Chart Music recently and the most revealing thing they had to say was how fucking miserable the band were while recording it. Paul and Linda were all cosy in the main building while Denny and the lads were freezing their tits off in an outbuilding because Paul was too much of a tightwad to spend any money on amenities and comforts.

I'm pretty sure it's the only Wings single where Denny Laine has a writing credit, so presumably he at least feels now that his bollocks were frozen off in a good cause.

[phantom_power]

Name me a better song about the extreme southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula.

Not The Entire Kintyre (Just The Tip) by Some Cunt and The Some Cunt Band

[SpiderChrist]

I'm pretty sure it's the only Wings single where Denny Laine has a writing credit, so presumably he at least feels now that his bollocks were frozen off in a good cause.

Laine still has a songwriting credit, but I believe he sold his royalty rights to McCartney when he was on his uppers.

[buzby]

Laine still has a songwriting credit, but I believe he sold his royalty rights to McCartney when he was on his uppers.

Apparently McCartney offered to help him out financially but Laine refused as he didn't want his 'charity', so buying the publishing rights for his Wings co-writes off him was the only way he would take money.

According to McCartney, Laine was paid about a million pounds during his time in Wings, and was on a salary of £70,000 a year at the height of their success:

Okay, let's take Denny. I've got receipts in the office for a million pounds paid to him. Now, you tell me a guy in any group who got that for the period we were together. Now, okay, if you think I sound mean after that, I've got to disagree with you. I mean, these people like Denny say, 'He didn't pay us enough.' Well, what I think is, 'Yeah, well, I did.' I know exactly what I paid him. It's a million. And that was worth more than a million is worth now."

[Gulftastic]

I was nine when this was number one and even then I was bewildered by its popularity.  First single to sell two million copies!  I would ask people at school if they liked it, never found anyone who said yes.

I was 7 and liked it. Still have a little warmth towards it, reminding me of happier times in my life. It's a verse too long though (yes yes, 'just one?')

[SpiderChrist]

Hate it hate it hate it. And, after reading this thread, I got home last night and Mrs S was watching some promotional video compilation show on the telly  - I was greeted on my return home by Mull of Fucking Kintyre.

[Satchmo Distel]

The track on the other side, Girls School, is very good.

[wosl]

It can become a grater for sure, but I'd still rather have it on regular-ish rotation (NB: this might mean no more than one spin every fourth year) than Starting Over or Got My Mind Set On You, although, fair dos, the McCartney dates more from a time when his pipes cords were in their prime and match fit. (Sorry for dropping a bit of Scottish barn straw about the place.)