From a Lover to a Friend

From a Lover to a Friend

Infobox Single
Name = From a Lover to a Friend


Artist = Paul McCartney
from Album = Driving Rain
Released = 29 October 2001
Format = Maxi-CD, CD Single
Recorded = 27 February 2001
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:49 (album version)
Label = Parlophone
Producer = David Kahne
Chart position =

  • #45 (UK Singles Chart)

Reviews =
Last single = "No Other Baby"
(1999)
This single = "From a Lover to a Friend"
(2001)
Next single = "Freedom"
(2001) |

"From a Lover to a Friend" is a song by former Beatle Paul McCartney, featured on his 2001 album Driving Rain. It spent two weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #45. In the US it became the b-side to his single Freedom and peaked at #24 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

The song is a ballad in which McCartney tries to come to terms with the death of his wife Linda,cite web|author=Harris, John|title=On Music: Rise and fall|publisher=The Guardian|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2097377,00.html|date=2007-06-08|accessdate=2008-01-15] singing "let me love again." A piece in The Guardian newspaper called it a "masterpiece... so delicate and honest that it sounds pretty much perfect."cite web|author=Gernhardt, Harald|title=Driving Rain|publisher=McBeatle.de|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2097377,00.html|date=2007-06-08|accessdate=2008-01-15]

From a Lover to a Friend was recorded on 27 February 2001 with Paul playing bass and piano, Abe Laboriel, Jr. playing drums, Rusty Anderson on 12-string electric guitar, and Gabe Dixon on piano.cite web|author=Gernhardt, Harald|title=Driving Rain|publisher=McBeatle|url=http://www.mcbeatle.de/macca/a/dr.html|date=2001|accessdate=2008-01-17]

Track listings

; 7" single
#"From a Lover to a Friend" - 3:48
#"Riding Into Jaipur" - 4:08

; CD maxi
#"From a Lover to a Friend" - 3:49
#"From a Lover to a Friend (David Kahne Remix 1)" - 3:44
#"From a Lover to a Friend (David Kahne Remix 2)" - 5:27

References

External links

* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005R7WT From a Lover to a Friend on Amazon.com ]
* [http://gernhardt.com/macca/s/faltaf.html Release information]


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