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1. David Harvey Wednesday 11 August 2021

   I don’t get all the controversy about Paul wanting to change the credit order for his Beatles songs to either McCartney-Lennon or dropping John’s name from the credits altogether, especially if these were songs that Paul wrote more or less all by himself and John made little, if any, contributions to the writing that were deemed sufficient to warrant the joint credit.
   Paul has the right to change the writing credits for his songs if he wants to and what most people don’t realize is that John stated in his final interview, the Lennon/McCartney credit was never legally obligated, but rather, it was an unwritten agreement between him and Paul when they were teenagers and there is no evidence of any unwritten agreement between them to keep the credit order that way.
   Furthermore, Mark Lewisohn found a tape recording of a 1969 meeting between John, Paul and George (Ringo was in hospital) to discuss the possibility of recording a follow-up to “Abbey Road” and John was the one who suggested that not only should he, Paul and George get four songs apiece, but also two for Ringo if he wanted them and John himself wanted to abolish the futile and misleading Lennon/McCartney altogether in favour of crediting his and Paul’s songs individually.

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