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Club Sandwich 68

released but decidedly legendary Bruce McMouse movie) before switching to live-action stuff, Paul, Linda and Denny seated at a patio table, singing and playing. This time there was no Campbeltown Pipe Band, so the middle-eight instrumental section was accompanied by vision of Paul with sound (very sound) engineer Geoff Emerick in the Abbey Road control room.
            From Studio Two at EMI Abbey Road recording studios, action switched to Stage Two at EMI Elstree Film Studios a week later when, on 9 December, Wings shot a third video for 'Mull Of Kintyre', this one directed by Nicholas Ferguson. (His pedigree also immaculate: he'd been creatively involved the day in November 1965 when the Beatles shot ten - yes, ten, could those boys work! - promo films in a single day).
            The Elstree promo may also be familiar to readers with a good memory, for it was screened a number of times during the long spell that 'Mull Of Kintyre' was atop the British singles chart. Wings are sat on a "rock" (knowledge of film props suggests that it was probably a lumpy piece of polystyrene) singing and playing amid swirling "mist" (plenty of dry ice in the house); the Campbeltown Pipe Band - two-day trippers south o' the border - then enter the picture and march past. Like the Abbey Road promo, this is a short-length video, running three-and-a-half minutes, as did the special DJ edit of the single broadcast by radio stations. The Sandell video ran a minute longer, like the commercial pressings.
            A day later, 10 December, Paul & Co could be seen in front of an audience - a unique sight in 1977 - at the BBC's Television Centre studios is London, when they recorded an appearance as special guests in The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show. As well as appearing in a comedy sketch with the impressionistic Yarwood (who was impersonating the "I'll tax you 98p in the £" British chancellor Denis Healey), Wings performed yet another version of 'Mull Of Kintyre' for the cameras - singing live on top of the studio tracks. The Campbeltown Pipe Band were there too, standing among the three Wings, who were dressed uniformly in high-button tunics and seated on BBC high-stools.
            Around 40 per cent of the UK population - 21.4 million people -watched the programme that Christmas Day evening, and this probably helped to maintain 'Mull Of Kintyre' at number one right through January until it was finally toppled in the first week of February.
            No one could ever have predicted it - least of all Paul, who has often spoken of his uncertainty in releasing 'Mull Of Kintyre' in the first place -but the song had been Paul's greatest ever UK sales success - and remains so to this day.