Ill Never Be Lonely Again Ludo Guitar Solo

No More Lonely Nights:
Awesome ballad, but not exactly a ballad, with some KILLER solo work from Mr. Gilmour Himself.
The one subtle thing about this is that build-up towards that explosive solo; some stellar arranging at work here! Paul's vocals are also second to none.
If only POP had more of these moments...
One thing someone can't take away from this project is that the new songs at least rock!!!
The 'Play-out' version and it's offspring...
It's fun to here the first of these when they come up, a nice variation, but enough is enough already.
All about that necessary mindset...
I view it as an anthology of sorts. A project of 'Paul running through the years', so to speak, and whether if you want to hop on the train ride or not is critical to the experience. I think when you pop it on and let it do it's thing (especially ideal as a cool backdrop at work or something) it's a whole lot of fun.
love this version! Love both actually, but the play out version is the one that gets stuck in my head
The play-out version is a fun aside, but putting a gazillion of different mixes of that as a bonus on the 1993 cd is about the biggest waste of space on a cd I can think of. The deluxe edition of U2's War shares a similar unfortunate fate.
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@kaztor I always assumed these b sides were missing from the '93 series because of the Columbia record label he was on at the time. I couldn't think of any other notable reason concerning these two albums and the b-side omissions. Perhaps someone else has better knowledge.
@Bailes I get the idea about the re-recordings being unnecessary but what else was he going to do in this movie? He's a musician, he's going to play his songs. So in theory, all of the re-recordings were necessary in some fashion. This film was really Paul giving us his version of touring. Since he wasn't going to tour. It is just like The Beatles giving the world Rain and Paperback writer since they were going to give up on touring. Now WHICH songs he chose to do in the film can be debated. Still, it was a healthy and balanced mix of new, recent (TOW and POP songs) and old (Beatles). And when you think about it, that's exactly what he does in his tours from '89 on.
Paul Gase Everything is cheaper than it looks.

Let us contemplate what a truly horrible album cover this is.
Bad album covers are a pet peeve of mine and are always fun to talk about.
Our man Macca has his fair share of them to be sure.
And this is one of them.
I mean, what is this supposed to be really?
I know the plot of this 'movie' is about stolen Macca master tapes. Fine. Is the look on his face here supposed to show him being concerned? He looks more like he's wondering if he put the kettle on to boil the tea ( don' t forget the butter pie, Paul! ).
Given it s a soundtrack album I guess the cover is supposed to reflect the movie
In that way I find it difficult to judge this as a proper album-cover. Just as is hard to judge the album as anything but a soundtrack.
One of the few occasions were the music/soundtrack are eons better than the actual movie
Ok I only saw the film once and believe me Ill never do that again
The soundtrack I gladly listen to once in a while
No More Lonely Nights (Ballad)
A highlight. This is a beautiful song with terrific vocals, great arrangement, production, performance and guitar solo by David Gilmour. Bravo!!!

Lyrics:

I can wait another day until I call you
You've only got my heart on a string
And everything a' flutter

But another lonely night might take forever
We've only got each other to blame
It's all the same to me love
'Cause I know what I feel to be right

No more lonely nights
No more lonely nights
You're my guiding light
Day or night I'm always there

May I never miss the thrill of being near you
And if it takes a couple of years
To turn your tears to laughter
I will do what I feel to be right

No more lonely nights (Never be another)
No more lonely nights
You're my guiding light
Day or night I'm always there
And I won't go away until you tell me so
No, I'll never go away
Yes, I know what I feel to be right

No more lonely nights (Never be another)
No more lonely nights
You're my guiding light
Day or night I'm always there
And I won't go away until you tell me so
No, I'll never go away
And I won't go away until you tell me so
No I'll never go away
No more lonely nights

Credits:

Produced by George Martin
Written by Paul McCartney
Backing Vocals, Piano, Vocals by Paul McCartney
Backing Vocals by Linda McCartney
Backing Vocals by Eric Stewart
Electric Guitar by David Gilmour
Bass by Herbie Flowers
Drums by Stuart Elliot
Synthesizers by Ann Dudley
Engineer: Geoff Emerick, John Kelly
Engineer assistant: Stuart Breed, Jon Jacobs
Label: Parlophone
Release Date: October 22, 1984
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios / AIR Studios, London, UK / CTS Studios, London, UK
Length: 5:13 minutes

Paul's own words:

From "Give My Regards To Broad Street" book, Pavilion Books, 1984:

"I had been messing around in the studio with a bass thing. And it was just jamming, one day, when I had nothing to do, coming here, just having some fun on some of the equipment. And this was a bass I had, with an echo device on it. And I'd been playing, those notes (humming the melody line). And the echo was taking care of the rest of it. So it was going… (humming again) …and it made this tune. It was a riff and it went on and on and on for hours. But I asked them to tape it, just in case, because I thought it was just a good idea for something. (…) We ended up using that little peace of echoed bass at the very beginning of the picture, when the titles came on. So I took those notes, and wrote the tune called No More Lonely Nights, which then we used it as a theme tune."

Source: No More Lonely Nights (song)

Promo Film:

Directed by Keef
Paul Gase Everything is cheaper than it looks.

It was around this time I started thinking, "Oh God, Paul has turned into my Dad." Even the shirt!!
No More Lonely Nights is ok. Solid production and DGs guitar is pretty stellar. You get Paul's crooning pop voice on this one, but it fits the tune.

BTW, we will get to it, but Ringo's drumming on this album is terrible.
Nail on the head!
Paul, as usual, got s*** from critics for having the guts to re-record Beatles songs. HIS songs.
And I don't think Billy Joel had to hear it when he re-recorded old songs for the Songs In The Attic album.
The cover is horrible, period.
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The song on the LP is an edited version due to the length of the recording.
CD, Cassette and LP have material from the film, sounds and dialogues, that affect the time of the songs.

From the back cover of the LP:

"
This record is longer than usual but due to the available playing time on a vinyl disc, some editing of the soundtrack has been necessary to retain full volume and dynamic range. Even longer versions exist on cassette and compact disc."

CD Time: 5:13
LP Time: 4:42

LP edit:
Billy Joel isn't Paul McCartney. He's not even Billy Shears !
I had taken a Beatle break during the early 80's. I hadn't purchased McCartney II, Tug Of War or Pipes Of Peace. But the song No More Lonely Nights made an impression on me, so I wound up picking up the CD. Maybe it was because it was such a long CD as compared to the vinyl and was, therefore, a curiosity to me. Either way, this CD brought me back to McCartney & I purchased every subsequent album upon release.
I love the accapella opening to this song - such a lovely bit of melody. The guitar solo may be my second favorite solo in rock music (after Comfortably Numb - I guess I like DG) - just loaded with emotion. The song itself is a solid McCartney ballad but nothing truly exceptional. It's a great bit of craft but doesn't strike me as being emotionally "true" like other ballads do.

Just to clarify, examples of Paul's ballad where (to my ears) he sounds like he means it are I'm Carrying, Little Lamb Dragonfly and Little Willow. Just something in his voice.

Will we be going over every track on the CD - including the re-recordings? This CD was my introduction to Wanderlust, Ballroom Dancing, So Bad, etc
No More Lonely Nights (9.5/10)
One of my favorites. I remember recording this off the radio but I missed the first line so until I got 'All The Best', mine always started "Until I call you…". I love it and have nostalgia again attached to it-I think they cut a lot of the guitar solo off too. What a fantastic melody, vocal effort and arrangement! I love everything on here – even the Linda backing vocals – "na na na na, na na na-na na na na". Maybe the only time where Paul works with a guitar legend – am I forgetting someone? I guess Clapton was on guitar with Paul on backing vocals and piano on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Nice to have Paul as the vocalist and a guitar hero next to him. Excellent and deserves its high universal chart placings.
Want to especially praise the lyric where Paul tries for poetic and succeeds – the lyric doesn't sound like a normal person conversing – it's got poetic twists: "you've only got my heart on a string" – a good tongue-in-cheek twist, the "an everything a flutter" is a little silly but it doesn't hurt this. "May I never miss the thrill of being near you, and if it takes a couple of years to turn the tears to laughter…" - it works- it feels natural despite the poetic 'may'. And Paul is so convincing the last time he sings "and I won't go away until you tell me so, no I'll never go away" – he's so confident he'll be able to help but you can hear in his voice he's not as confident that she won't ask him to go away. A very romantic gesture from a confident yet guy unsure of her side of the relationship.

No More Lonely Nights (extended) (8/10)
Can't help it – one of my favorites in a different version – when I first heard how different it sounded I was like; 'this as a dance song?' I didn't know for some time so when I did hear it, I thought of it as his most accomplished and successful reprise of all the reprises he's done. It's fully re-recorded like those, it's got an 80's charm about it – that part "couldn't take it again" – with Linda prominent is cute – and I know it's supposed to be a sad line and they sound cute but, hey, he's acknowledging that he wants to challenge himself to having more new fans and not settle on the regular version only. Dance mixes were big back then, what can you do?

Last edited: Feb 14, 2020
Yes, I thought it's better than him miming to all Beatle recordings. And yes, why is Paul already skipping all of his 70's material except for "Silly Love Songs"? Well I don't mind the choices - really seems like Paul had heard 'Revolver' recently or maybe he saw praise for his 'Revolver' songs. I guess he wanted some songs he could do solo but he did have a band for this movie so I would have enjoyed "Paperback Writer" re-done since you mentioned it.
'Broad Street' is the McCartney album I reach for the least because it's not really a full fledged album because of the rehash of redone numbers. None of them are reworked so it's more evident on the Beatles stuff that Paul's voice has lost some luster all these years later. Of course, any singer would 20 years after but after a little dip in the late 70's, he had not really been challenging himself with something that stretched him except for the falsetto of "So Bad" which was very good. But somehow, on this version, it sounds like he didn't work his voice up for it. He still sounds great of course. "Ballroom Dancing" matches the studio version, I enjoy any type of 'The Long And Winding Road" so I liked that and bonus points for switching up the sound. "For No One" and the other 'Revolver' items has him playing too safe. "Silly Love Songs" tries something different but it's not as good a change as 'Winding Road'.
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Paul McCartney and George Martin in the studio + more...

South Bank Show 1984:
Ok
I get it
It was a very rough year for the McCartney's between getting maybe the worst bashing ever for the film at the end of the year and then Paul getting caught with the green stuff in Barbados and Linda getting caught with it in Barbados and then arrested in London right after for getting caught there too. He did balance it out with some high chart action for multiple singles. I know the movie isn't great but I like watching the performances - like Magical Mystery Tour. A few of these songs he rarely or never performed.
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Single version with clean intro (4:36 minutes):

The single was released on September 24, 1984.

There are two versions of the single (in reality more), one with a spelling mistake: "Lonley":

Available on All The Best!:
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Single version with clean intro but long fadeout (4:47 minutes):

Available on Wingspan and Pure McCartney:
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Performed by Alison Krauss & Union Station. A MusiCares Tribute To Paul McCartney, 20 Jan 2012:
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A cover by John Pizzarelli: