Love songs

Paul Weller will always write love songs

Music Gossip

14 Apr 2012

Paul Weller will always write songs about women because he considers himself a romantic. The 'That Dangerous Age' rocker - who married backing singer Hannah Andrews last year, with the couple having twins Bowie and John Paul in January - says…

Lil Wayne releasing love songs

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12 Apr 2012

Lil Wayne is releasing an album of love songs. The 'Lollipop' rapper may reveal his tender side on the record - to be titled 'Devol' - which was written when he was in jail on Riker's Island, New York, in 2010. He told MTV: "I was recording an…

Primal Scream won't write love songs

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14 Jan 2012

Primal Scream will not write any love songs for their new album. The 'Higher Than the Sun' group are currently in the studio working on their tenth LP, and frontman Bobby Gillespie said his lyrics will be "emotional" but not in a sentimental…

Noel Gallagher promises solo love songs

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19 Aug 2011

Noel Gallagher "couldn't really sing songs about love" in Oasis. The band's former guitarist couldn't let his true feeling show being in a "macho" rock band, but promises his new project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, will have a number of…

Alexis Jordan's young love songs

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17 Jun 2011

Alexis Jordan's first ever song was based on "love notes" she wrote for boys at school. The 'Hush Hush' hitmaker - who shot to fame after appearing on the first series of 'America's Got Talent' in 2006 - explained she has been writing songs at an…

Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland

5 Feb 2009

LOVE SONGS Lovable little Mr Doom and Gloom, or as he puts it, ‘Glasgow’s alcoholic lo-fi miserablist’ set out to write an album of positive love songs and this, the result, shows Arab Strap’s one-time frontman in playfully sentimental but happily…

George Michael's love songs

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16 Jun 2008

George Michael is so happy with his boyfriend he can't write sad songs. The 'Fastlove' singer has to rely on tales of other people's tragic love lives to inspire him because life with Kenny Goss is so blissful. He said: "I have this wonderful…

The art of writing love songs

31 Jan 2008

How do you approach writing about love? Kenny Anderson AKA King Creosote, Fife’s own regal tunesmith of the heart With my heart on the accelerator and my head on the brakes. Emotional turmoil is exactly what you need to get the pen moving, but…