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(Friday, December 1, 1972) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his British-American rock band Wings today released the single “Hi Hi Hi“/”C Moon” in Britain, where “Hi Hi Hi” would be banned by the BBC for its sexually suggestive lyrics (the single was released in the U.S. on Dec. 4, 1972).

The BBC also assumed that the title phrase, “We’re gonna get hi, hi, hi” was a drug reference.

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The specific lyrics objected to is the apparent phrase “get you ready for my body gun”; McCartney has said that the correct lyrics are “get you ready for my polygon”, an abstract image, and later said, “The BBC got some of the words wrong. But I suppose it is a bit of a dirty song if sex is dirty and naughty. I was in a sensuous mood in Spain when I wrote it.”

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The title “C Moon” was inspired by lyrics in the song “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.

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McCartney said, “There’s a line in [Wooly Bully] that says, ‘Let’s not be L7.’ Well, L7, it was explained at the time, means a square—put L and 7 together and you get a square… So I thought of the idea of putting a C and a moon together (a half-moon) to get the opposite of a square. So ‘C Moon’ means cool, in other words.”