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PAUL MCCARTNEY SINGING (A SILLY LOVE SONG), DAVID GILMOUR PLAYING

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       I was listening to a Paul McCartney greatest hits album when this song, “No More Lonely Nights” (from the movie G ive My Regards To Broad Street ) played.   I was instantly reminded that David Gilmour (Pink Floyd guitarist) did the guitars here.         The song's nice, though a tad sentimental for me, but it was mightily enhanced by Gilmour’s masterful guitar works. Haven’t the critics already told Paul to stop writing love songs and he responded by writing “Silly Love Songs?”   The guitar solo at the middle and towards the end of “No More Lonely Nights”   are terrific.   If only they were extended, to at least five minutes more. He he.         Alas, Paul, after the break-up of the Beatles, never wrote a classic again , one that would complement the grandeur of “Yesterday” or “Eleanor Rigby,” albeit he wrote some excellent songs with the Wings. Come...

FAIR-WEATHER

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Dancing only where the grass is greener Where the sun is shinier Where the stars are brighter And the ocean calmer Staying home when it's cloudy When it's rainy When it's gloomy And everything's heavy Glowing in the light Vanishing in the night