BBC 'Drops Paul McCartney's Michael Jackson Impression'

The BBC will no longer show an interview in which Sir Paul McCartney impersonates Michael Jackson’s voice, it’s been reported.

The corporation is said to have feared the former Beatle’s "trans-racial impression" could have proved controversial.

Sir Paul is understood to have replied in the voice when asked to comment on the singer, according to the Telegraph.

"McCartney started to reply in this high-pitched Jacko voice, and apparently it was very funny. But the BBC - deeply nervous, perhaps because of the Jonathan Ross-Russell Brand affair - has declined to broadcast the interview,” a BBC source told the Daily Mail.

Asked to explained why the interview was deemed to have been potentially offensive, the source replied: "They say it's a 'trans-racial impression' - that's what they say in a memo - and even by Macca that is beyond the pale."

Sir Paul dueted with Jackson on the 1982 single 'The Girl Is Mine', but the pair fell out when Jackson bought the rights to part of the Beatles' music library.

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As previously reported on Gigwise, Sir Paul dubbed Jackson “awfully good” at a recent press conference in London.

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