Recording: Girls School by Wings

Studio Three, Abbey Road Studios, London
Producer: Paul McCartney
Engineer: Geoff Emerick

Wings continued recording ‘Girls School’ on 14 March 1977, following a three-week break.

The song was released on a double a-side single with ‘Mull Of Kintyre’.

Although a backing track had been recorded in February, Wings chose to re-record the song on this day. They filled three tape reels with new versions before eventually settling on a master take.

The song is a series of vignettes, all tied together. That’s something I like to do across a lot of my lyrics. If you think about it, the vignette is really my stock-in-trade.

A lot of the guitar bands who came alone in the eighties – the glam metal bands – took this kind of risqué lyric and ran with it. But for us, it was really just a one-off reflection of what was happening at the time.