I
In June of
1966,
Paul McCartney
purchased
a two-hundred-acre farm near
the Mull of Kintyre, a sparsely
populated peninsula in the
extreme southwest of Scotland, as a shelter from
both the pressures of Beatlemania and the
fscal policies of Britain's Labour government.
(It was no coincidence that "Taxman" would be
the opening track on the album Revolver,
released later that same summer.)
Macca still owns the property today,
and from his perch at High Park
Farm has an easy view of Machrihanish Bay, the ancient links of the
Machrihanish Golf Club, and
Campbeltown Airport, where
planefuls of golfers seeking to avoid
his aptly named
"long and winding road"
from Glasgow
touch down.
Mach Dunes was once
accessible only by
boat, and required five
hours at sea, followed
by a lengthy drive past
ragweed fields.