Paul McCartney has written a lot of love songs. Those include perfect, heartfelt gems with the Beatles (“Michelle,” “Eight Days a Week” and “The Long and Winding Road,” among others) and smashing ...

Bruce Springsteen didn’t like Paul McCartney‘s “Silly Love Songs” at first. Subsequently, Paul revealed why Springsteen changed his mind about the track. Notably, “Silly Love Songs” had a big impact ...

Originally a lot of the best rock lyrics were gibberish like “Awopbopaloobop.” Then Bob Dylan married the poetry of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” to the sound of the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” and ...

SOME PEOPLE want to fill the world with silly love songs/And what's wrong with that?/I'd like to know. Wings' "Silly Love Songs" begins with the rhythmic sounds of a factory: an industrial thunk, a ...

Paul McCartney is undisputedly one of the best songwriters in music history. His words and melodies have been firmly cemented into the zeitgeist. We’re taking a closer look at McCartney’s lyricism to ...

“We lift our voices in honor of those whose voices have been silenced. When people become iconic in death, we fail to appreciate the great loss of happy, loving moments. Their joy and laughter is ...

What’s wrong with that? Paul McCartney once asked that question about the ubiquity of “Silly Love Songs.” Well, there’s nothing wrong with that, especially when those songs are coming from McCartney’s ...

But there's just as rich a cultural tradition of not-so-epic love songs, opting for plain language and hedged declarations and a negotiator's precision. Three rock albums out this week work in this ...

“Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what’s wrong with that?” Paul McCartney and Wings threw that question out in 1976, and thankfully a cavalcade of artists a decade later ...