Silly Love Songs

1976

Silly Love Songs is a song that was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and recorded by the group Wings. The song is part of the 1976 released album Wings at the Speed ​​of Sound, but was released as a single.

History

The U.S. single was released on 1 April 1976, and reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and # 2 in the UK Top 40 UK The single has sold more than a million copies and is the best selling single by then the Wings dar.

Paul McCartney has often raised by music critics and his friend and ex - colleague Beatles John Lennon that his lyrics not treated very profound topics. In the song Silly Love Songs McCartney goes indirectly to these critics and defended his approach. In the first stanza it says literally:

" You'd think people would have had enough did of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it Is not like that. 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 people would have enough of silly love songs slowly. But I look around me and see that this is not so. Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what 's wrong with that? I would like to know, because here I start again with it. "