Paul McCartney applauded Beyoncé’s rendition of the White Album classic 'Blackbird' in a statement posted on the Beatles legend’s social media.
“I am so happy with version of my song ‘Blackbird,'” McCartney wrote alongside a photo of the singers together. “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.
After the Little Rock Nine enrolled, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus protested their entrance into the school, which in turn sparked the Little Rock Crisis. It was these events, as well as the civil rights movement itself, that inspired McCartney to pen “Blackbird.” “I spoke to her on FaceTime and she thanked me for writing it and letting her do it. I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song,” McCartney added of Beyoncé’s “Blackbiird.”
“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. Anything my song and Beyoncé’s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud.
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