"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" | ||||
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Single by Paul McCartney and Wings | ||||
from the album Band on the Run | ||||
A-side | "Band on the Run" | |||
Released | 28 June 1974 | |||
Recorded | October 1973[1] | |||
Studio | AIR Studios, London, UK[1] | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 5:29 | |||
Label | Apple | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Paul McCartney | |||
Wings singles chronology | ||||
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Official audio | ||||
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" on YouTube | ||||
Band on the Run track listing | ||||
9 tracks |
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (sometimes written as "1985") is a song by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released as the final track on their 1973 album Band on the Run.[2] It has been featured on the 2001 documentary DVD Wingspan and Paul McCartney and Wings' 1974 TV special One Hand Clapping. A 2016 remix of the song was nominated for a Grammy Award.[3] The song was referenced in Brett Easton Ellis’s novel Glamorama, driving a group of fictional supermodels to extreme terrorist acts.