Sir Paul McCartney explains his Bloody Sunday anger and reaction to BBC ban: ‘This felt personal… these were my people’

Former Beatle incredulous after Beeb objected to his record decrying massacre

Sir Paul McCartney defied his record company to release the single

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.

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 “Irish brothers”.