From a Lover to a Friend

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"From a Lover to a Friend"
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Single by Paul McCartney
from the album Driving Rain
B-side "Riding Into Jaipur"
Released29 October 2001
Recorded27 February 2001
Genre Rock
Length3:49 (album version)
Label Parlophone
Songwriter(s) Paul McCartney
Producer(s) David Kahne
Paul McCartney singles chronology
"Vo!ce"
(1999)		"From a Lover to a Friend"
(2001)		"Freedom"
(2001)
Music video
”From A Lover To A Friend” on YouTube

"From a Lover to a Friend" is a song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 2001 album Driving Rain . It was released as a single and spent two weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #45. [1] It also reached #6 on the Canadian Singles Chart. [2] In the U.S. it became the b-side to his single "Freedom" and peaked at #24 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

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Critics saw the song as a ballad in which McCartney tries to come to terms with the death of his wife Linda, [3] singing "let me love again"; McCartney, however, was less certain whom the song was about in an interview on Howard Stern's radio show. [4] The Guardian called it a "masterpiece... so delicate and honest that it sounds pretty much perfect." [3]

"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. [5]

Track listings

7" single

  1. "From a Lover to a Friend" – 3:48
  2. "Riding Into Jaipur" – 4:08

CD single

  1. "From a Lover to a Friend"–  3:49
  2. "From a Lover to a Friend" (David Kahne Remix 1) – 3:44
  3. "From a Lover to a Friend" (David Kahne Remix 2) – 5:27

Cassette single [6]

  1. "From a Lover to a Friend" – 3:48
  2. "Riding Into Jaipur" – 4:08
  3. "From a Lover to a Friend" (David Kahne Remix 2) – 5:27

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "From a Lover to a Friend"
Chart (2001)Peak
position
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [7] 71
UK Singles (OCC) [8] 45
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [9] 24

Year-end charts

2001 year-end chart performance for "From a Lover to a Friend"
Chart (2001)Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [10] 102
2002 year-end chart performance for "From a Lover to a Friend"
Chart (2002)Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [11] 120

Notes

  1. ↑ "Official Charts: Paul McCartney". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Paul McCartney Charts and Awards". allmusic . Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  3. 1 2 Harris, John (8 June 2007). "On Music: Rise and fall". The Guardian . Retrieved 2008-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Paul McCartney on Howard Stern". YouTube . 3 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. I don't actually know what this is about.
  5. ↑ Gernhardt, Harald (2001). "Driving Rain". McBeatle. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
  6. ↑ The Beatles Beat (2001). "Paul McCartney Cassette Singles". The Beatles Beat. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  7. ↑ "Paul McCartney – {{{song}}}" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  8. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  9. ↑ "Paul McCartney Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  10. ↑ "Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2001". Jam! . Archived from the original on July 26, 2002. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2002 (Part 2)". Jam! . 14 January 2003. Archived from the original on 6 September 2004.



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