"Sailing"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Atlantic Crossing
B-side	"All in the Name of Rock 'N' Roll"
Released	1975
Genre	Rock Ballad
Length	4:30
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s)	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 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 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing, and it was subsequently 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.

The music video was shot in New York Harbor in 1975 and credited with a 1978 completion date; 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.

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.

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.

The melody has been used for the chant No One Likes Us - We Don't Care.

Preceded by "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" by The Stylistics

UK number one single September 6, 1975 for four weeks

Succeeded by "Hold Me Close" by David Essex

v • d • e Rod Stewart singles 1970s "It's All Over Now" (1970) · "Maggie May" (1971) · "Reason to Believe" (1971) · "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (1971) · "Handbags and Gladrags" (1972) · "You Wear It Well" (1972) · "Angel" (1972) · "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" (1972) · "Twistin' the Night Away" (1973) · "Oh! No Not My Baby" (1973) · "Farewell" / "You Send Me" (1973) · "Mine for Me" (1974) · "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything" (1974) · "Sailing" (1975) · "This Old Heart of Mine" (1975) · "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" (1975) · "The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)" (1976) · "Get Back" (1976) · "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (1977) · "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (1977) · "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" (1978) · "Hot Legs" (1978) · "I Was Only Joking" (1978) · "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1978) · "Ain't Love a Bitch" (1979) 1980s "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" (1980) · "Young Turks" (1981) · "How Long?" (1982) · "Baby Jane" (1983) · "That's What Friends Are For" (1983) · "Some Guys Have All the Luck" (1984) · "All Right Now" (1984) · "People Get Ready" (1985) · "Love Touch" (1986) · "In My Life" (1987) · "Twistin' the Night Away" (1987) · "Forever Young" (1988) · "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" (1989) · "Downtown Train" (1989) 1990s "It Takes Two" (1990) · "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (1990) · "Rhythm of My Heart" (1991) · "The Motown Song" (1991) · "People Get Ready" (1991) · "Your Song" (1992) · "Ruby Tuesday" (1993) · "Have I Told You Lately" (1993) · "Reason to Believe" (1993) · "People Get Ready" (1993) · "All for Love" (1993) · "Lady Luck" (1996) · "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1997) · "Ooh La La" (1998) · "Rocks" (1998) · "Cigarettes and Alcohol" (1998) · "Faith of the Heart" (1999) 2000s "These Foolish Things" (2002) · "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (2003) · "Time After Time" (2003) · "What a Wonderful World" (2004) · "Blue Moon" (2004) · "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (2005) · "I've Got a Crush on You" (2005) · "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (2006) · "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (2006)

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