Video: 'Paul McCartney & Wings - Give Ireland Back To The Irish Rehearsals + Interview (Complete)'

(Tuesday, March 7, 1972) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was interviewed today at his London home by ABC News London reporter George Watson about his political stance following the release of “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” by his new band Wings, written in protest of after British paratroopers shot dead thirteen Catholics after a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry, in an incident known as Bloody Sunday.

“As an entertainer, it doesn’t worry you about getting a bit into politics?” Watson asked.

“No. You can’t stay out of it, you know if you think at all these days,” McCartney responded. “We’re still humans, you know, and you wake up and you read your newspaper, it affects you. So I don’t mind too much, it doesn’t worry me like I say. I don’t now plan to do everything I do as a political thing, you know, but just on this one occasion I think the British Government overstepped their mark and showed themselves to be more of a sort of a repressive regime than I ever believed them to be.”

The band was also filmed rehearsing three takes of “Give Ireland Back To The Irish.”