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

       I was listening to a Paul McCartney greatest hits album when this song, “No More Lonely Nights” (from the movie Give 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 to think of it, after Roger Waters left, David Gilmour also failed to create another masterpiece, in the vein of “Time” or “Comfortably Numb" (the guitar solo towards the end of this song is just pure bliss) for Pink Floyd.

       Well, two (or more) heads are indeed better than one.