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41 Years Ago: The BBC Bans ‘Hi Hi Hi’ by Paul McCartney and Wings
41 Years Ago: The BBC Bans ‘Hi Hi Hi’ by Paul McCartney and Wings
41 Years Ago: The BBC Bans ‘Hi Hi Hi’ by Paul McCartney and Wings
While controversy seemed to follow John Lennon on a daily basis in the early-70s, it was not a foreign concept to his former Beatles band mate Paul McCartney either. In early 1972, McCartney and his band Wings, released the defiantly political single, 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish.' Dipping into controversial waters out of character for McCartney, and though the single was strong and hard-rockin

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