Posted on 04/05/2024 4:13:51 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Paul McCartney is singing his praises for Beyoncé’s vers
ion of “Blackbird.”
The music legend on Thursday wrote on his Instagram page that he’s “so happy” with the Grammy-winner’s cover of the 1968 Beatles track that is included on her newly released “Act II: Cowboy Carter” album, under the slightly revised title “Blackbiird.”
“I
think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place,” he wrote. He went on to “urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out.”
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Paul should have stayed with Mary Jane Asher, the 60's Princess Kate.
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“They don’t call me “P.C. Paul” for nothing. Quite right!”
They have to pay royalties. Exactly!
I know I’m an old white guy but please don’t kill me.
Even after Beatlemania and the incarnations following that, Paul remains an attention-seeker. It’s still not enough.
I prefer the Sinatra/Stevie Wonder version of Ebony and Ivory:
You are black and I am white
You are blind as a bat and I have sight
Side by side, you are my amigo — Negro — let’s not fiiiiiight.
he didn’t write this song for black rights. what a load of concocted well after the fact crapola.
He has never said he hated her - quite the opposite.
STevie would follow that with:
“I’m a singer, not a fighter!
Remember, Frank, how good you used to sing?
Not like now....Oops! Just joshin’ Mister Chairman!”
Whose ‘civil rights’?
LOL!
What a load of crap from McCarthy.
That song is over fifty years old and I didn't know it was about civil rights. Ever.
It was garbage in 1968...and I’ll bet the new version is garbage today.
GFY Paul.
A hint: “And Your Bird Can Sing” was about Jagger and Marianne Faithful.
It wasn’t... Ever. Paul is just a lying, virtue signaling sack of $hit. Paul’s probably just as racist to this day as any other elitist millionaire.
Paul is listed as a producer. Beyonce used some of the original Mccartney recording. Dolly Parton got sole writing credit on Jolene. I have been looking around to see if Beyonce did the same with this song. Also, did John Lennon get credit
A cover...well fine and dandy.
Her “country” music is atrocious and she’s quite the potty mouth in it.
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