18 Dec
2002
18 Dec
'02
2:05 p.m.
on 12/18/02 12:48 PM, Kurt Gottschalk at ecstasymule@hotmail.com wrote:
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.
yes, but we can still wish he would be bigger than that and would choose instead to bask in having been the primary collaborator with one of the greatest minds rock has produced.
Lennon -- who should have felt that way about Paul -- was less sanguine about it in many interviews. Despite what people say, McCartney is and was Lennon's equal. NEITHER managed the high points away from the other that they had together. sh