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Ok, I’m driving myself a bit loopy here. Hopefully someone can help.

I’m looking for a documentary, either about the Beatles or specifically about Paul. Someone (I’m pretty sure it’s Barry Miles) talks about visiting Paul at the Asher house, and unless I dreamed it, mentions a room being done up in Norwegian Wood .

Now, I’ve watched a *lot* of Beatles content since December, so I’m having trouble placing it. I should have taken notes!

I thought at first it was There’s Only One Paul McCartney (linked above), but that doesn’t cover the Indica gallery period at all. Then I thought it was How the Beatles Changed the World on Prime Video, but I got to the part where Miles talks about meeting Paul and the line I think I remember wasn’t in it.

Does it ring any bells for anyone?

Interesting. I could swear I can see Barry Miles saying it, but that snippet gives me hope I didn’t make it up whole-cloth

I think this is the thread for this link

https://www.reddit.com/r/beatl…..tney_is_a/

80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday

https://www.stereogum.com/2187…..-playlist/

Allison Russell’s entry about Blackbird is extremely moving.

I’ve loved the song “Blackbird ” since I first heard Caroline O’Neal, an older girl I had a crush on in high school, singing it. I loved it before I knew who Paul McCartney was or who the Beatles were. Pop culturally speaking — I grew up under a rock. The tyrant who ruled our household and who was my primary abuser in childhood — my white supremacist adoptive father — hated pop music. We were punished severely if we ever tried to listen to it. Nevertheless, so ubiquitous and undeniable is Paul McCartney ’s oeuvre that I was influenced anyway via a 16-year-old girl covering “Blackbird ” at a co-ed high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the ’90s.

“Blackbird ” is a song that feels universal and eternal. It seems to pull from the Hidden Canon of Folkloric songs and stories handed down orally and intergenerationally, usually along matrilineal lines. I heard it as secret women’s wisdom and resistance — I felt as though I already knew the poetry and the melody from that first moment. I never forgot them. It reminded me of songs and tales my Scottish grandmother, Isobel, shared with me.

It was many years before I learned that Paul McCartney had written “Blackbird ” about the Civil Rights Struggle for Black Americans. That he had written it after reading about Race Riots and an incident in Little Rock, Arkansas. That he had written it sitting at his kitchen table in Scotland with the express intention of giving the people going through the struggle for recognized equality some hope. Mission accomplished, Sir Paul. I felt that hearing it secondhand as an oppressed and abused black child in Montreal back then and I still hear it as freedom and hope to this day.

Imagine feeling a connection to a song like that, and then finding out it was literally written for you, to encourage and support you.