For some reason we thought his music was very similar to ours and we latched on to him amazingly quickly. Bach was always one of our favorite composers we felt we had a lot in common with him. Part of its structure is a particular harmonic thing between the melody and the bass line which intrigued me. Both the melody and the lyrics have specific inspiration behind them.Ĭoncerning the melody, Paul explains in his book “Many Years From Now”: “The original inspiration was from a well-known piece by Bach, which I never knew the title of, which George and I had learned to play at an early age he better than me actually. Shortly after returning from India where he was learning the art of Trancendental Meditation with the other Beatles, Paul wrote "Blackbird" while at High Park Farm in Kintyre, Scotland in April of 1968. For such a delicate acoustic piece hidden away as the eleventh track on a double-album, a song that was never a charted hit, it has been said to have become one of the top ten most covered songs of all time. Then, from 2002 onward, “Blackbird” has become a fixture in his set lists, the song getting a rousing reception after every performance on every tour he's done since. Apart from “ Long Tall Sally,” it was one of the first Beatles songs that McCartney decided to perform live during his 1975/1976 “Wings Over The World” tour. What first appeared as a simple but impressive solo acoustic Paul track on the “ White Album” has ended up becoming one of the most popular signature pieces of his entire career. If you are a Beatles fan and are a guitarist, as many are, and happen to have an acoustic guitar with you when with a group of friends, what do you think the likelihood is that someone will ask you to play "Blackbird"? I would think the liklihood is pretty damn high!
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