The whole issue seems like a minor point until you think about it for the perspective of a guy having to share credit with another guy for everything he made, whether or not they made everything together. I think most people would have less of a problem if it were Paul outright trying to get John's name off "Yesterday" or "Blackbird", which are obviously all Paul. Of course, the fact that this has to do with THE BEATLES (everyone's favorite sacred cow) brings it into a whole other place of examination... sh on 12/17/02 11:53 PM, Joseph Zitt at jzitt@metatronpress.com wrote:
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:57:49 -0800 Tosh <tosh3@earthlink.net> wrote:
Not to nag about an ancient group on something, but isn't McCartney's insistance in having his name first on certain Beatles songs sort of... silly and sad. Here's a man who is no. 1 tour money maker of the year, an established (he he ) composer, etc and etc. And here he complains about his name not being first on the credit sheet.
I can sympathize with him. To have written and recorded a song as good as "Yesterday", for example, but to go down in history as apparent second writer to someone else on it can stick in the craw, even after close to 40 years. I'm sure each of us has made fairly informal impetuous decisions when quite young that has had unforseen repercussions. And I'm sure most of us have points we'd like to make to correct things that, if splattered all over the media as happens to those who happen to have made a lot of money, might look petty.
We all live in glass houses. It's just that most of us don't have people selling maps and leading bus tours to show them to the world.
I'm a bigger fan of Yoko than I am of Paul, but I would love to see her change her mind and be gracious enough to be flexible on this fairly minor issue.