Love on the Air

Single by Pink Floyd's guitarist, David Gilmour

"Love on the Air"

Single by David Gilmour

from the album About Face

B-side

"Let's Get Metaphysical"

Released

24 April 1984 (1984-04-24)

Recorded

1983

Studio

Pathé Marconi Studio (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)

Genre

Soft rock

Length

4:19

Label

Harvest

Songwriter(s)

Pete Townshend
David Gilmour

Producer(s)

Bob Ezrin
David Gilmour

David Gilmour singles chronology

"Blue Light"
(1984)

"Love on the Air"
(1984)

"On an Island"
(2006)

"Love on the Air" is a song by Pink Floyd's guitarist, David Gilmour. The track was released as the second single from his second solo studio album About Face (1984).^[1]

The lyrics to the track were written by the Who's main songwriter Pete Townshend, and the music was by Gilmour himself.^[1] The lyrics for the track were written within a day, after Gilmour had asked for Townshend's help.^[2] Townshend had also written the lyrics to another track from About Face, "All Lovers are Deranged".^[1]

The single was only released in the UK, but sales were poor, despite the single also being available as a 7" picture disc.

Gilmour performed the track live on his 1984 tour, and in 1985 as a member of Townshend's supergroup, Deep End,^[1] a recording of which was released on Townshend's live album Live: Brixton Academy '85 (2004).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Miles, Barry; Mabbett, Andy (1994). Pink Floyd the visual documentary (Updated ed.). Omnibus. ISBN 0711941092.
^ Perna, Alan di (2012). Guitar Masters: Intimate Portraits. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9781480329706..