The song is set in a club where a party thrown by the Beatles to welcome the Monkees to England and it is winding down. There are birds out on the sidewalk are groupies, the 4 Kings of EMI are sitting stately on the floor is the Beatles. The wonderful lady is Samantha Juste, his first wife who he just met and Cass Elliot is the girl in yellow dress. The description of the title of the song is true in an earlier post. That much I know for sure. I think the why don't you cut your hair why don't you look up there is a lot about the establishment not liking the long haired hippies and wanting them to conform. The hate part could have a lot to do with the civil rights movement at the time. I know that McCartney wrote Blackbird after watching a black woman being beaten by police for sitting in a seat in the whites only section.
The song is set in a club where a party thrown by the Beatles to welcome the Monkees to England and it is winding down. There are birds out on the sidewalk are groupies, the 4 Kings of EMI are sitting stately on the floor is the Beatles. The wonderful lady is Samantha Juste, his first wife who he just met and Cass Elliot is the girl in yellow dress. The description of the title of the song is true in an earlier post. That much I know for sure. I think the why don't you cut your hair why don't you look up there is a lot about the establishment not liking the long haired hippies and wanting them to conform. The hate part could have a lot to do with the civil rights movement at the time. I know that McCartney wrote Blackbird after watching a black woman being beaten by police for sitting in a seat in the whites only section.