Paul McCartney was reflecting on the period between the 1960s and 1980s, when certain examples of Western music were banned in the Soviet Union, on the A Life In Lyrics podcast.
The Beatles were never invited to play behind the Iron Curtain at all, with Paul only playing solo in Moscow for the first time in 2003.
Paul said: ‘Everyone in Russia goes back to the Beatles period and remembers having to smuggle records, [or having] little rooms where you could play [songs],’
‘You didn’t want people to know. You didn’t want the authorities to know that you were listening to this forbidden group. We loved the idea of that.’
‘[We loved that] we were getting smuggled in along with Levi’s jeans. This was like true cultural arrival,’ he said, looking back at the band’s heyday.
Paul made the comments while reflecting on Back In the U.S.S.R., a song that appeared on The Beatles’ ninth studio album in 1968, the White Album.
Paul was speaking on the A Life In Lyrics podcast when he admitted to enjoying stories of Soviet citizens enjoying their music:
‘To some people [music can be dangerous]. We always thought that we were on the right side [of history], if we were dangerous to the Russian authorities.‘I think it was true that they were trying to suppress this Western influence. God knows what the politics and the realities are behind it.’
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