Sailing (Rod Stewart song)

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"Sailing"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Atlantic Crossing
B-side "All in the Name of Rock 'N' Roll"
Released 1975
Length 4:30
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer Gavin Sutherland
Rod Stewart singles chronology
Mine For Me
(1974)		 Sailing
(1975)		 This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)
(1976)

"Sailing" is a love song written by Gavin Sutherland in 1972 and recorded at various times by Sutherland's group, the Sutherland Brothers and then the amalgamated Sutherland Brothers and Quiver.

Rod Stewart recorded the song for his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing, and it was a number one hit in the UK in August 1975 for four weeks. The single returned to the UK top ten a year later when used as the theme music for the BBC documentary series Sailor, about HMS Ark Royal, and made a minor chart appearance when re-released as a charity single after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster in 1987. Having been a hit twice, it remains Stewart's biggest-selling single in the UK. Its music video was shot in New York Harbor in 1975, and credited with a 1978 completion date; [1] it also was one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on August 1, 1981. However, despite Stewart's great popularity in the United States, the song never climbed higher than number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, the band was playing this song as Hyacinth and Richard were trying to make it to the Queen Elizabeth 2.

Rod Stewart performed the song at the Concert for Diana at Wembley stadium on 1 July 2007.

Preceded by
"I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" by The Stylistics		 UK number one single
September 2, 1975		 Succeeded by
"Hold Me Close" by David Essex
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