I am so happy with Beyoncé’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 Beyoncé 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 spoke to her on FaceTime and she thanked me for writing it and letting her do it. I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song. 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 Beyoncé’s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud. [Paul McCartney på sin Facebookside)

Jovist, den gamle Beatle er begejstret over Beyoncés “killer version” af den gamle Beatles-klassiker. Og jeg synes også, at den unge dame, som jeg har haft forbehold over for (måske et forbehold, der mest gælder vor tids alt for digitaliserede musikproduktion…), har lavet en udgave, der ikke bare er loyal, men også tilfører den et tydeligt feminist anstrøg, der klæder den smukke sang virkelig godt.