{"id":230922,"date":"2025-10-22T03:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230922\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:30:12","slug":"paul-mccartney-authorised-use-of-beatles-song-in-gavin-and-stacey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230922\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney authorised use of Beatles song in Gavin and Stacey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Gavin and Stacey Christmas special broke numerous records but one scene would not have been the same without a little help from a friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Oscar Hartland, who played Neil the Baby, left the cast &#8220;bawling their eyes out&#8221; as he performed Blackbird in the finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">But it took a frantic email from James Corden, who plays his on-screen dad Smithy, to Sir Paul McCartney to find a way around The Beatles royalty costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Hartland, who is about to embark on his debut tour, spoke to BBC Radio Wales about the moment it was confirmed they had got the green light for the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gavin and Stacey Christmas special broke numerous records but one scene would not have been the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-230922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}