Love in Song
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| Single by Wings | ||||||||||||
| from the album Venus and Mars | ||||||||||||
| A-side | "Listen to What the Man Said" | |||||||||||
| Released | 16 May 1975 | |||||||||||
| Format | 7" single | |||||||||||
| Recorded | 7 November 1974 | |||||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||||
| Length | 3:04 | |||||||||||
| Label | Capitol | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney | |||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Paul McCartney | |||||||||||
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"Love in Song" is a song credited to Paul and Linda McCartney that was released on Wings' 1975 album Venus and Mars. It was also released as the B-side of Wings' number 1 single "Listen to What the Man Said." It has been covered by artists such as Helen Merrill and The Judybats.
"Love in Song" was initially written on Paul McCartney's 12 string guitar, and McCartney has claimed the song "just came to him." It was one of the early songs recorded for Venus and Mars, at Abbey Road Studios in London in late 1974.String overdubs were added at Wally Heider Studios in Lost Angeles on March 10, 1975. In addition to playing 12 string guitar and singing lead vocals, Paul McCartney plays upright bass, using the same bass that Bill Black played on Elvis Presley hits such as "Heartbreak Hotel."Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch also play guitar, and Linda McCartney sings backing vocals. "Love in Song" is one of the few Venus and Mars songs on which Geoff Britton plays drums, as the song was recorded before he was replaced as Wings' drummer by Joe English.
Several critics have described "Love in Song" as having a melancholy quality. The first and third verses express a degree of sadness, as the singer cries out to his lover in the first verse and he sings of sadness that resulted from a misunderstanding in the third. In contrast, in the second and fourth verses the singer sings of how everything is fine when he has his love. In the bridge, the singer remembers a time when he and his lover were happier. McCartney biographer Peter Carlin describes the song as a "portrait of heartbreak," claiming it "traced the thin line between love and obsession."
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