Paul McCartney May 1977

Title: Recording London Town
Type: Home Movie
Fiming Location: Watermelon Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands
Filming Date: May 2nd-28th 1977
Broadcast Date: 2001
Country Of Broadcast: UK/USA
Duration: 01:13 Minutes
Quality: B-
Notes: The McCartneys and Wings wanted to think of a place to go where they could work on music for their next album and have a
swell time while they were at it. So Paul came up with a plan to charter a yacht and lie at anchor in a secluded bay off the
Virgin Islands. That way they could swim and lie about in the sun, and play music late into the night without disturbing anyone.

In the end three boats were needed as there were twenty people and lots of musical equipment involved. One boat, the "Fair
Carol", was used as a recording studio and it had a 24-track machine installed in it. The second boat was the eating and
sleeping boat that was the "Samala", a converted British mine-sweeper and the third boat, "El Toro", was home away from home for the McCartney family.

So the month of May was spent floating on the bright blue water under the warm sun off St. John Island. The food was great (cake
and sydney pie was a fav), there were cool breezes through the portholes at night, and lots of time and inspiration to
record nine wonderful sounding tunes for the next album.

Home movie footage of Wings recording and relaxing on board their boats in the Virgin Islands that was used in the "Wingspan" documentary.