(McCartney said the music was inspired by J.S. “Blackbird” from The White Album with the Beatles, E.M.I. Sounds of Eurasian Blackbird provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, 84549 recorded by M. Those were the days of the civil rights movement, which all of us cared passionately about, so this was really a song from me to a black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: “Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith there is hope.”Īs is often the case with my things, a veiling took place, so rather than saying, “Black woman living in Little Rock” and be very specific, she became a bird, became symbolic, so you could apply it to your particular problem.' 'I had in mind a black woman, rather than a bird. Here is McCartney's full qoute as it appared in Many Years from Now, by Barry Miles: It was a trying time, and Sir Paul said later that he saw the song as empowerment. As he said later, “This was really a song from me to a black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith there is hope.’” He was singing about the racial strife in the American South in the 1960s. Eurasian Blackbirds are common in the gardens and throughout the countryside in Great Britain.īut McCartney wasn’t singing about the bird.
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Paul McCartney and the rest of the Beatles most certainly grew up hearing Eurasian Blackbirds, in their home of Liverpool. Listen to Black Beatles: R&B Covers 1963-1972 by Matthew Perpetua on Apple Music.
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