Getting Closer by Paul McCartney – ***

First released: 1979

This was the first single off of Wings final album, "Back to the Egg". I really enjoy this song, but a lot of the flack about it at the time concerned the stupidity of the lyric “Say you don’t love him, my salamander”. I didn’t find this as offensive as others, but this apparently was a no-no at the time, despite McCartney releasing other animal-related songs in the past like "Morse Moose and the Grey Goose" and "Little Lamb Dragonfly". I tend to ignore McCartney’s forays into silly lyrics if the tune and the instrumentation are good, of which this does well on both counts.