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Wings - Silly Love Songs (Official Music Video)

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Music video by Wings performing Silly Love Songs, remastered in HD.

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Yes we are gina and jerry

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Directed by Gordon Bennet

Silly Love Songs features in 'The 7” Singles Box', a collection of 80 career-spanning 7” singles personally curated by Paul McCartney. The box set includes 163 tracks totalling over 10 hours of music, a 148-page book with a foreword by Paul, and is also released digitally.

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I don't know about you guys but the world has become a much darker place since he died, he was literally an angel sent from God to heal the world

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'The 7” Singles Box' out 2 December 2022: https://PMC.lnk.to/7inSinglesBox

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Love the baseline in the mix. I wasn’t even born then - 50 years on I just love this song, makes me smile just like being in love does. Love is so silly and isn’t silly at all, I get it.

— @hppysmiley

More User Perspectives

Happy times listening to this song from back in the day love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Debpboxers

Try this song everyday
Believe to receive
❤️🌏♥️

@andretimm1387

Silly Love Songs
Paul and Linda McCartney, 1976

You'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs
But I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

I can't explain, the feeling's plain to me
Now can't you see?
(I love you) ah, she gave me more, she gave it all to me
Now can't you see?
What's wrong with that?
I need to know
'Cause here I go again

I love you
I love you

Love doesn't come in a minute
Sometimes it doesn't come at all
I only know that when I'm in it
It isn't silly, love isn't silly
Love isn't silly at all (yeah, yeah)

How can I tell you about my loved one?
How can I tell you about my loved one?
(I love you) how can I tell you about my loved one?
(I love you) how can I tell you about my loved one?

I love you
I love you
I love you (I can't explain, the feeling's plain to me, say, can't you see?)
I love you (ah, he gave me more, he gave it all to me, say, can't you see?)
I love you (I can't explain, the feeling's plain to me, say, can't you see?)
(How can I tell you about my loved one?)
I love you (ah, he gave me more, he gave it all to me, say, can't you see?)
(How can I tell you about my loved one?)
I love you (I can't explain, the feeling's plain to me, say, can't you see?)
(How can I tell you about my loved one?)
I love you (ah, he gave me more, he gave it all to me, say, can't you see?)
(How can I tell you about my loved one?)

You'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs
But look around me and I see it isn't so, oh no
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?

@loonybenstudios

Paul McCartney: Most beautiful voice and beautiful face ever! Love that he's still rockin' at nearly 84...😙💚🪻

@gloriaswanson777

This song mostly ran through me

@hobie-coolerthnyou

I was 9 in the summer of 1976... This song, and let'em two songs I carried through life. My favorite love song :} Happy 50th Anniversary

@RFKFANTS67

Seen McCartney in concert at the F1 Yas Marina Circuit.

@MarionMclaughlin-c6l

The Summer of Sweet 76🩷

@MarionMclaughlin-c6l

50 years ago! 😢

@wrw6600

R.I.P Tabby Boy Cat,
2010/2026,
I hope you and
love you so much.

@TillieTheLittleEngine

Paul McCartney did really well post Beatles 🎉

@josephforbes7911

One of the top hit songs of 1976 and one of the best Paul McCartney ever did

@JeffreyRoweton

All my life ! Cos I've loved it all my life ! 💖

@yvonneallen7227

Commercial -yes but Great , but never a Lennon McCartney song.

@clivecaiger6231

I was 9Y old and since that moment I loved it...I am 60Y.....

@salvadormeza5219

🇧🇷❤2026

@izabelfonseca-s5s

How can i tell you about my loved one😊

@Ayla-f8z9v

Summer of 1976 11 yrs old ❤

@foxylady4556

One of the greatest bass lines

@anthonyvaladez972

Paul Linda

@PaulSmith-z1g

I Love Linda McCartney 🌹

@annie5801

I feel your heartbreak when I listen to your voice singing gorgeous old memories ❤️

@annie5801

It's the only song the fake McCarthy wrote...

@David-y5r4p

doot doodle bop

@iyusf875

Amo está canción...❤

@NellyRaquelNorambuenaRamirez

YES. Me 😁

@ravenstark2165

2026?

@travismaxwell9115

Takes me right back to the summer of 76, the year of the heatwave in Britain . Outdoor pool in New Brighton, those really were the days ❤

@carolmerrill1014

😊5/25/2025 Great Song everyone have a great day or night wherever you maybe just know someone is thinking about you 2:18 p.m. 😊

@DelightfulCupcakes-cq3cx

That bass line is fire❤

@peterlawson8796

I’m suddenly in my mother’s mustang driving down country roads in New Hampshire in the mid seventies with this blaring form one speaker on AM radio!

@beedubs1327

Amoooooooooooooooooooooooooo Saudos desde Perú uwu

@eliannelazo2780

777AMEN ❤😊

@ritawaalkes2212

❤❤❤❤

@Patti.C

Silly love song and band on the run the most i love the song,,,

@julianachan6529

Paul mcartney da best my fav song eversince iwas in 5th grader,,

@julianachan6529

That Base

@KimberlynBolton-q7r

Reminds me of cruising with family in the 70s

@JohnRusso-z4f

50th Anniversary
"Silly Love Songs" by Wings, co-written by Paul and Linda McCartney, is a masterclass in turning critical jabs into chart-topping gold. Released in 1976 as a cheeky answer to critics (and John Lennon) who dismissed his ballads as fluff, the disco-laced hit became Paul's 27th U.S. number-one as a songwriter.

Record-Breaking Success
Billboard Domination: The track famously spent five non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was crowned the No. 1 overall pop song in Billboard's Year-End Charts for 1976.
Double Act Legend: By topping the year-end charts, McCartney became the first person to achieve a year-end No. 1 song with two distinct acts—Wings and The Beatles (who previously took the top spot in 1964 and 1968).
Songwriting Feat: The song marked his 27th American No. 1 as a songwriter, solidifying an all-time record at the time.

Originally appearing on the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound, the single was backed with "Cook of the House". Over the decades, it has remained a staple of his catalog, appearing on numerous greatest hits albums, including:

Wings Greatest!

Pure McCartney!

“A little late, but all my love is with this song.

@Mr.觀塘天香街寧波仔

Leading from the bass line.

@stevenlidster1431

Mark Wilson and Fell in love in High School in the 70s and this is our song

@lenabussman1808

Magnífico

@antoniojaviervegasantana7700

🎶On this date (May 22) in 1976, 'Silly Love Songs' by Wings reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

@THERobertL2000

#Wings #Paul McCartney #Linda McCartney #Denny Laine #Jimmy McCulloch #Joe English #The Beatles #Venus and Mars #At The Speed Of Sound