Silly Love Songs
| Silly Love Songs | |
|---|---|
| Wings | |
| publication | April 1, 1976 |
| length | 5 min 53 s |
| Genre (s) | Soft rock , disco |
| Author (s) |
Paul McCartney , Linda McCartney |
| album | Wings at the speed of sound |
Silly Love Songs is a song written by Paul and Linda McCartney and recorded by the group Wings . The song is part of the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound , but was also released as a single with the track Cook of the House on the B-side .
history
The US single was released on April 1, 1976 and reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 in the UK UK Top 40 . The single was sold more than a million times and is the Wings' best-selling single to date.
Paul McCartney was often raised by music critics and his friend and ex- Beatles colleague John Lennon that his lyrics weren't about very deep subjects. In the song Silly Love Songs , McCartney goes indirectly to these critics and defends his approach. In the first stanza it says literally:
“You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it isn't so. Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know, cause here I go again. "
“You'd think that people are getting tired of silly love songs. But I look around and see that this is not the case. Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I want to know, because this is where I'll start again. "
literature
- Vincent P. Benitez: The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years . Praeger, Santa Barbara 2009. ISBN 0-313-34969-X . P. 75 f.
Web links
- The lyrics on lyriksfreak (English)