{"id":93351,"date":"2025-10-22T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93351\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:22:09","slug":"paul-mccartney-authorised-use-of-beatles-song-in-gavin-and-stacey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93351\/","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":93352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-93351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}