Paul McCartney has praised Beyonce’s version of Blackbird, the Beatles song.
Paul said he was “proud” at the idea it could help “ease racial tension”.
The civil rights movement, which took place in the 1950s and 1960s and Paul said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, 1968, and by racial tension in the Southern United States.
Beyonce’s version of the track features on her newly released album Act II: Cowboy Carter.
Paul said (on Instagram account):
“I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird’.
“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 Beyonce has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!”
“I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song”, he said.
“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 Beyonce’s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud.”
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