{"id":167516,"date":"2025-11-30T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:54:09","slug":"sir-paul-mccartney-explains-his-bloody-sunday-anger-and-reaction-to-bbc-ban-this-felt-personal-these-were-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167516\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Paul McCartney explains his Bloody Sunday anger and reaction to BBC ban: \u2018This felt personal&#8230; these were my people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former Beatle incredulous after Beeb objected to his record decrying massacre\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sir Paul McCartney defied his record company to release the single\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/33e14207-e0e8-4dc3-bb71-5704e770fae8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sir Paul McCartney defied his record company to release the single<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sir Paul McCartney was stunned when his hit song Give Ireland Back to the Irish was banned by the BBC after he wrote it in anger about Bloody Sunday, a new book reveals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a just-published oral history of Wings, his band after The Beatles, Macca explains he was angry over the Bloody Sunday shootings in January 1972, regarding those killed as his \u201cIrish brothers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Beatle incredulous after Beeb objected to his record decrying massacre Sir Paul McCartney defied his record company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[61745,93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-167516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bloody-sunday","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}