K from Nowhere, OnYou seen? Sorry, I feel the need to correct your grammar.Austin from Lawndale, CaI heard it was Lennon hanging out in Eric Clapton's back yard and he ask for the guitar and just started jamming about wat he saw in a dream GUESS I AM WRONG!.George from Belleville, NjBlackbird is about as simple a song as it gets.Simplicity is the essence of art.I totally agree with Sylvia from London England.No artist can out do the Beatles,the Beatles are in a class all by themselves.It was all very moving! All the best Ang! x I know this because Angie told me this herself last Friday in an interview on British radio.
It was inspired by a blackbird singing in a tree outside their home.
Richard from Gretton, United Kingdomthe song 'Blackbird' had actually been written for Angie McCartneys (Pauls stepmother) mum by Paul as he sat on the end of a bed with an old Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder. 
Richard from Gretton, United KingdomCheck out for the REAL story behind this beutiful song. This doesnt prove it is the sound on the recording but it strongly suggests the possibility and is also very interesting to see. on the wooden floor as he played Blackbird. He was wearing a pair of bright red shoes ( probably tap shoes) which he was tapping. Priscilla from Harvard, MaI saw a video on youtube of Paul sitting down in a chair in a recording studio recording Blackbird. Paul said he never really had the patience to learn it. It is NOT the Travis fingerpicking style John uses in Dear Prudence. Even Sean Lennon commented recently that he had been playing it wrong all these years by just using a fingerpicking method. He used the same technique in Mother Nature's Son, Calico Skies, and Jenny Wren, among others. He uses his own pick/pluck-strum style that pretty much unique to him. Paul doesn't do a traditional fingerpicking style. Kedame from Tuscumbia, AlI think it's funny how many people think this is tried and true fingerpicking style. Grayson from New Orleans, LaI went to see Paul in concert (Detroit 2011) and he can still sing this song really well. I find it depressing that one of the few British contributions to this discussion is a link to his personal blog. Blackbird is w/out a doubt one of the most amazing tunes written for acoustic guitar. Eliot from Chicago, IlRE: Richard of. Jim from West Palm Beach, FlPaul double tracked the vocals in parts. And if if I'm not mistaken, there is an audio clip where McCartney did that distinctive index finger strumming pattern on "Yesterday". Andy from IndonesiaThe tempo is fluctuated, one have measure it between 89 - 94 BPM, it is not a metronome. #2 quite possibly would be Pretzel Logic or Aja by Steely Dan (a toss up). If I were marooned on a desert isle and was limited to 2 LPs, #1 would be The White Album hands down. Simple and unadorned, yet reaches deeply into one's subconscious. Lauderdale, FlThey say if you want someone's attention, speak quietly or whisper. McCartney said it was a classical piece, so I think he must have simply confused the name of the piece if he said it was Bouree Bach's Bouree doesn't sound anything like Blackbird. Stephen from San Diego, CaAlthough McCartney may have said it was influenced by Bach's Bouree, it had to have been Etude, Op. Tj from Roseville, CaMcCartney said he never played Bach's Bouree correct and just a few notes in the intro of the song were his inspiration for "Blackbird". 
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Garrick from NzTo those who insist the tapping is a metronome could you please get a life. If you don't know the poem, go check it out! The poem is about a bird who wants to be free, and this song is about freedom as well. Bridget from CoTo me, this is like a very late response to the poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Christine East from On With Life Owl Creek: Ankeny, IaSusan Sarandon’s ALS movie, “Blackbird” sounds like it will seem like expression of Beatles Paul McCartney’s descriptions of his lyrics & musical meanings like on disabilities. Sadly when his father died there was a falling out between him and his step mother and step sister. There was a blackbird that sang at night outside their house. That is why the first three takes of the song are "for Eddy". 
Marc from TexasActually the song was inspired by a story told to him by his step grandmother Eddy.Whenever I hear it I get a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. Martin from Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire.Blackbird, just such a great song over 50 yrs old.
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