{"id":207987,"date":"2025-11-30T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207987\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:19:10","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.europesays.com\/ie\/207987\/","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.europesays.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":207988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[45955,18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-207987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bloody-sunday","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115638617527739748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}