and Linda McCartney
that was originally released on the Paul McCartney and Wings
' album Band on the Run
. According to author John Blaney, it was written during a vacation in Jamaica
. However, author Vincent Benitz claims the song was written as early as 1970 or 1971, noting that Paul and Linda sang the song during a live interview in New York City in 1971. In Continental Europe
it was also released as the B-side of the Mrs Vandebilt
single.
Although much of the Band on the Run album was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria in August and September 1973, "Bluebird" was completed later in 1973 at AIR Studios in London.
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion." -- Lord Byron
"The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor". -- 17th Century account
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash." -- Attributed to, and denied by, Winston Churchill
"Where I go, I hope there's rum" - Jimmy Buffett
"But why's the rum gone?" - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
"Hide the rum." - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
"I prefer rum. Rum is good." - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End