Paul McCartney praised Beyonce's new cover of his song 'Blackbird' and revealed what she told him on a FaceTime call in a new Instagram post.
“I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird,” he wrote in a caption of a carousel comprised of a photo of the two artists and the standardartwork. “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. I think Beyoncé has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out.
“Blackbird,” stylized as “Blackbiird” on Beyoncé’s new LP, reimagines the acoustic original with additional bass, orchestral flourishes and lush harmonies from a quartet of ascendant Black women in country, a 1997 Barry Miles-penned biography of the Beatles. In the book, McCartney explains that “I had in mind a woman, rather than a bird.
“I spoke to her on FaceTime and she thanked me for writing it and letting her do it,” wrote McCartney, whoRenaissance World Tour last year. “I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song. 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.
, is one of two covers on the LP. Elsewhere on the sprawling 27-tack album, Beyoncé takes on Dolly Parton’s seminal “Jolene,”to ever tally at least 20 top 10 hits as soloist and 10 or more top 10s as a member of a group. The only other two artists to accomplish such a feat? None other thanKen Burns Talks Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Compares New Album to Beatles’ ‘White Album’: ‘She’s Got Guts!’Pophouse Buys Rights to KISS – Here’s What They Have Planned.
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