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Paul McCartney Says Beyoncé’s ‘Blackbird’ Cover Reinforces His Civil Rights Message

Mark Paul McCartney as a fan of Beyoncé's cover of his song, 'Blackbird.'

Sir Paul McCartney is a fan of the Cowboy Carter rendition of his song, Blackbird, which he originally wrote in 1968. When I saw the footage on the television in the early ’60s of the black girls being turned away from school, I found it shocking and I can’t believe that still in these days there are places where this kind of thing is happening right now. “I was sitting around with my acoustic guitar, and I’d heard about the civil rights troubles that were happening in the ’60s in Alabama, Mississippi, Little Rock in particular,” McCartney told GQ in 2018 .

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