UK pop pilgrimages: from Paul McCartney’s Kintyre to Giggs’s Peckham

With festivals looking thin on the ground, why not visit the places that have inspired some of our best songs and greatest bands, including Pulp, the Undertones and … Cliff Richard

Your desire to be among dramatic Scottish scenery where mist may or may not roll in from the sea will depend on at least some appreciation for Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1977 hit Mull of Kintyre. Naff as its faux-Scots stylings may be, its emotion is pure, romanticising Macca’s back-to-basics rural bolthole, High Park farm – his life-saving sanctuary from Beatlemania.

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