McCartney: A Life in Lyrics - Give Ireland Back To The Irish

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I realised this actually that sometimes I really want to sit down and write a song that sums up my dismay and anger at the political situation that I read about every bloody morning you know.

I read about politicians saying this and this and this and this and it’s like what a twerp. This guy is a complete idiot. So I’ll sit down, okay ‘You are an idiot’, but I can’t do it. It doesn’t really work.

I wrote a song called Angry. That was an attempt at that but it’s not angry. You know, it seems to be something I can feel in myself. I can’t easily translate that into a song. Yeah, so that’s not one of my genres.

Paul McCartney – Quoted in ‘You can’t do this’ Paul McCartney’s banned song he was told to ‘reconsider’ | Music | Entertainment | Express.co.uk

From Give Ireland Back to the Irish | McCartney: A Life in Lyrics (pushkin.fm):

This episode deals with themes and events surrounding the Northern Ireland conflict. As such, this episode may be traumatic or emotional for some listeners.

Paul McCartney doesn’t view himself as a writer of protest songs. But the events of Bloody Sunday sufficiently moved him to use his voice. Rush released as Wings first single in 1972, “Give Ireland Back To The Irish”  was banned in Britain by the BBC and in the US radio avoided playing it. However, through any criticism, McCartney stood steadfastly behind the release which ultimately reached number one in Ireland.

“McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” is a co-production between iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries.

The series was produced by Pejk Malinovski and Sara McCrea; written by Sara McCrea; edited by Dan O’Donnell and Sophie Crane; mastered by Jason Gambrell with assistance from Jake Gorski and sound design by Pejk Malinovski. The series is executive produced by Leital Molad, Justin Richmond, Lee Eastman and Scott Rodger.

Thanks to Lee Eastman, Richard Ewbank, Scott Rodger, Aoife Corbett and Steve Ithell.

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