Never believe it’s not so.” That’s how guitarist/bassist David Paton wrote it some 50 years with keyboardist Billy Lyall for their group Pilot. “Magic” was the Scottish act’s first and ...
It also seems like it has generated at least a million dollars for David Paton. Paton, it turns out, is one of the two men who wrote "Magic" for his band Pilot in 1974, when it became a Top 10 hit.