Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
| "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" | ||||
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| Single by Paul McCartney and Wings | ||||
| from the album Band on the Run | ||||
| A-side | "Band on the Run" | |||
| Released | 28 June 1974 | |||
| Recorded | October 1973 | |||
| Studio | AIR, London | |||
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| Length | 5:29 | |||
| Label | Apple | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Paul McCartney | |||
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| Official audio | ||||
| "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" on YouTube | ||||
| Band on the Run track listing | ||||
9 tracks | ||||
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (sometimes written as "1985") is a song by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released as the final track on their 1973 album Band on the Run. It has been featured on the 2001 documentary DVD Wingspan and Paul McCartney and Wings' 1974 TV special One Hand Clapping. A 2016 remix of the song was nominated for a Grammy Award. The song was referenced in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel Glamorama, driving a group of fictional supermodels to extreme terrorist acts.