Sailing (Rod Stewart song)

Infobox Single
Name = Sailing


Artist = Rod Stewart
from Album = Atlantic Crossing
B-side = "All in the Name of Rock 'N' Roll"
Released = 1975
Format =
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 4:30
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Writer = Gavin Sutherland
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = Mine For Me
(1974)
This single = Sailing
(1975)
Next single = This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)
(1976)

"Sailing" is a love songFact|date=June 2008 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 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals,AL for his 1975 album "Atlantic Crossing", and it was a number one hit in the UK in September 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; [http://members.aol.com/smilerfrg/rod/rsvideo.htm] 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 (a concert in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died 10 years earlier) at Wembley stadium on 1 July 2007.