“Blackbird”

The recording sessions for the White Album had deteriorated to where the Beatles more and more worked individually in separate studios. Case in point; while John was in one room putting together “Revolution 9” Paul was making this solo masterpiece, presaging his “McCartney” LP by well over a year. The subject was the American civil rights movement, not something you’d expect from an outfit that five short years earlier was all about moptops, holding hands, “yeah yeah yeah” etc. Sucks that Charlie Manson thought Paul was speaking directly to him, trying to incite a race war.