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Paul McCartney says he's 'so happy' with Beyonce's 'killer version' of Beatles' song Blackbird... after she thanked him over FaceTime for 'letting her do it'

Paul McCartney proved he's a full-fledged member of the BeyHive by applauding Beyonce's version of his song Blackbird on Thursday. The icon sang her praise on Instagram.

'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,' McCartney added on Instagram. The remaining members of the group — John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr — refrained from participating while McCartney accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and percussive foot-tapping, per Variety. McCartney has long stated that he wrote the song as a tribute to the Little Rock Nine, a group of Black students who faced racial discrimination when they integrated an all-white high school in 1957; Beatles in 1967

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