the original version of “Blackbird” was written and recorded by McCartney himself during June 1968 sessions for the Beatles’ self-titled LP – later nicknamed the White Album. He’d turn ...

"Blackbird" was hardly his the only explicitly anti-racist statement on the White Album. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La Da" is a ska ode to West Indian immigrant family life in England ("Desmond is a very ...