Through Our Love

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“Through Our Love” is a track from 1983 album “Pipes Of Peace“. This ballad is the final track of the album.

“Through Our Love” includes the lines “We can do things they said were impossible, through our love,” which sounds like a love song to Linda “Yeah, well, in my case it would be to Linda. If it was Guy Mitchell singing it — that’s going back, let’s get a bit more modern for the younger readers — if it was Manilow or somebody singing it, you wouldn’t think ‘Oh, it’s for his girlfriend.’ Because it’s me, you think it’s for Linda. Which, as I say, for me it is, but I don’t write songs like that, I don’t write them as diaries. I remember George Harrison saying ‘l can’t write stuff like you. You write stuff like Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da about Desmond and Molly, what’s it mean? But to me its just the same as someone wrote ‘They’re having a Heatwave,’ it might have been winter when he wrote it… Songs don’t have to mean anything actually, it’s allowed to make it up. All the best stuff doesn’t mean anything… I’d like a young married couple to take it for themselves, Fred and Ena, ‘Through Our Love’ is for them as well as being my thing to Linda.”

Paul McCartney, from Club Sandwich N° 31, 1983

From an interview with Geoff Whitehorn, playing guitar on this track:

I just did one track on Pipes Of Peace. Called Through Our Love or something.

Did you know Paul already before then?

No, No I knew … there was a guy … he had a guy who was a sort of a personal assistant/road manager or something or other, that I happened to know … Pete Fulham actually … and McCartney was just looking for sort of different players to come and contribute to the album. But I mean, I just ended up playing acoustic guitar on that one track. But it was good, because Paul was actually playing bass, George Martin was playing electric piano and Dave Mattacks played drums and we knocked this song off in about … an hour.

You went to the Air Studios in Oxford Street?

Yeah. I only had a really cheap nasty acoustic guitar I took with me in a sort of bag, you know like a canvas bag. I didn’t play much acoustics. So McCartney said “Well, better use this,” and he gave me this beautiful Gibson. It was a nice session … Linda McCartney was … charming. She gave me a book of her photographs …

On “Through Our Love”, George Martin was credited playing “bicycle,” which involved him striking a revolving cycle wheel with a ratchet to obtain a particular percussive effect! That was only one example of Paul’s search for new sounds to include on record.

From Club Sandwich N° 31, 1983

Last updated on April 25, 2020

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