The bitter sweet parody of “Ebony and Ivory”

On 25 April 1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder reached #1 on the UK singles chart with their effortless offering “Ebony and Ivory”. This would become McCartney’s 24th #1 hit single as a songwriter and appeared on McCartney’s album “Tug of War” as well as a later album in 1987, “All the Best”. The title and theme was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan say “black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make the harmony folks!” This seemingly seamless collaboration would later be named as the tenth worse song of all time by Blender magazine and in 2007 was named the worst duet in history, great single cover though. It was then doomed to the “saccharine” noose in pop history. It was also banned for a while in good old in South Africa during the glory days of Apartheid. The song would obviously give the masses some crazy ideas. Now its simply reduced to the “easy song” on the “oldies” karaoke file. Could this be a prime example of a pop event that should never been yet claims a large stake in twentieth century culture like the common hamburger? http://www.bubblews.com/news/435244-the-bitter-sweet-parody-of-ebony-and-ivory