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Justin Hayward sings the Beatles Blackbird
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• Beatles' Covers • Blackbird is a song the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles White Album. It was written by Paul McCartney with minor lyrical contributions from John Lennon, and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney. McCartney explained that the guitar accompaniment for Blackbird was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar. As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a show off piece. The Bourrée is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings. McCartney adapted a segment of the Bourrée (reharmonised into the original's relative major key of G) as the opening of Blackbird , and carried the musical idea throughout the song. The first three notes of the song was inspired from Bach, which then transitioned into the opening guitar riff. Since composing Blackbird in 1968, McCartney has given various statements regarding both his inspiration for the song and its meaning. He has said that he was inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird one morning when the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India and also writing it in Scotland as a response to the Little Rock Nine incident and the overall Civil Rights movement, wanting to write a song dedicated to people who had been affected by discrimination. Although McCartney has been consistent in the meaning, there are still varied interpretations – as a nature song, a message in support of the Black Power movement, or a love song. Writing in the 1990s, Ian MacDonald noted the theory that Blackbird was intended as a metaphor for the black civil rights struggle , During an informal rehearsal at EMI Studios on 22 November 1968, before he and Donovan took part in a Mary Hopkin recording session, McCartney played Blackbird , telling Donovan that he wrote it after having read something in the paper about the riots and that he meant the black bird to symbolise a black woman. • David Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician. He was the guitarist and frontman of the rock band the Moody Blues from 1966 until that group's dissolution in 2018. He became the group's principal vocalist and its most prolific songwriter over the 1967–1974 period, and composed several international hit singles for the band. Singles written by Hayward for the Moody Blues include Nights in White Satin , Tuesday Afternoon , Question , The Voice , I Know You're Out There Somewhere and English Sunset ; he wrote 20 of the group's 27 post-1967 singles. He also has a solo career. His first album outside the Moody Blues, Blue Jays, a collaboration with John Lodge, reached the UK top five in 1975. The single Blue Guitar , recorded with 10cc as the backing band, reached the UK top ten in 1975, and his 1978 recording of Forever Autumn from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds reached the UK top five. In 2018 Hayward was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues and in 2022 was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the music industry. • Classic Blue is the fourth solo studio album by The Moody Blues member Justin Hayward. Classic Blue was released in 1989 by Trax Music (later re-released on Castle Music Records in 1994), and features Mike Batt, who also produced the album, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The album includes cover versions of many hit songs, such as The Beatles' Blackbird , and Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. It also includes a re-recorded version of Forever Autumn, a song from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, in which Hayward originally sang lead vocals.
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