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Martin Lewis says archive tape backs McCartney’s original Blackbird inspiration
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Martin Lewis | Club Random with Bill Maher
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""I did some delving um in the archives and I found a rare audio tape that proved that Paul was telling the truth. In 1968, he did he produced an album with Mary Hopkin.""
Beatles producer and archivist Martin Lewis says he located a “rare audio tape” from 1968 that, in his account, supports Paul McCartney’s long-stated explanation that “Blackbird” was prompted by US civil rights imagery rather than later figures he has sometimes mentioned in interviews. Lewis says the tape captures McCartney discussing the song after being challenged by Diana Ross about the word “bird”, and referencing television footage of Black women protesting in America.
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- Martin Lewis | Club Random with Bill Maher
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