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I don't know. After all Paul is now "Sir Paul." They should just do it alphabeticaly which would leave John with top billing. I do disagree with you about Ringo being usless. He did come up with songs some of their cute songs like "Octopus' Garden." I think they all added to the brillance of the group.


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I respect your opinion :)  However, I still think Ringo was the crappiest drummer ever to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Well, first of all, Paul isn't trying to re-write history - he's trying to get credit where is due.  Not only did John not contribute to the writing of Yesterday (for example), he didn't even play on  The Beatles recording of it.  Paul feels a little miffed that John therefore gets first credit under the Lennon-McCartney arrangement - an arrangement made by john and Brian Epstein without Paul's participation.

Anyway, it's nothing new, I have the Please Please Me album on LP and CD, and all the songs (excluding the covers) are credited to McCartney-Lennon on my copies.

Now for Ringo  ;):

13 reasons to respect Ringo - http://web2.iadfw.net/gshultz/bryant.html

Comments about Ringo by other drummers - http://web2.iadfw.net/gshultz/drumpage.html

And let's not forget, Ringo is a left-handed drummer who learnt to play on a right-handed kit set-up (supposedly inspiring at least one rock drummer to drum right-handed on a left-handed set-up, but I forget who).
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Thanks for the info, JPT :)  I have a friend who is a left-handed drummer too.  I wonder why, if he's left-handed, they didnt' just get him a right-handed set...perhaps they still had an anti-lefty bias back in the day...I know my grandmama beat the left-handedness out of me, although I still play hockey and bat left-handed...

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I know my grandmama beat the left-handedness out of me, although I still play hockey and bat left-handed...
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Seems then that Grandmama didn't do a thorough enough job then Rice  ;D (just kidding man)  ;)

Nifty website, BTW....

FB :D

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The Lennon/McCartney label was an business agreement between John and Paul.  Changing it now when one party is dead and unable to dispute it seems pretty ugly to me.
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WHY was nothing done to Pat Benatar??

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My guess is that as long as it was one citation on one song on one album, and as long as both artists were credited, pursuing a lawsuit would have been more bother than it was worth.
It's been forty years of "Lennon-McCartney".  Changing it now seems petty.
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Speaking of Tom Petty....I loved it when, in 1981, he challenged his record label to lower the price of his latest LP ;D

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My guess is that as long as it was one citation on one song on one album, and as long as both artists were credited, pursuing a lawsuit would have been more bother than it was worth.
It's been forty years of "Lennon-McCartney".  Changing it now seems petty.
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Well, I would like to know if the songs in question were written by McCartney...if so I don't really see the problem...as for petty...Yuko giving Crazy Mike Beatles songs wasn't just petty...it was a travesty......And Speaking of Tom Petty....I loved it when, in 1981, he challenged his record label to lower the price of his latest LP ;D

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My guess is that as long as it was one citation on one song on one album, and as long as both artists were credited, pursuing a lawsuit would have been more bother than it was worth.
It's been forty years of "Lennon-McCartney".  Changing it now seems petty.
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Well, I would like to know if the songs in question were written by McCartney...if so I don't really see the problem...as for petty...Yuko giving Crazy Mike Beatles songs wasn't just petty...it was just plain criminal.  Why isn't anyone pissed at her or Jackson for that matter, selling out all the Beatles tunes for commercials when John led the lawsuit with his mates, against Nike back in '87 when they used "Revolution" for one of thier spots?......And Speaking of Tom Petty....I loved it when, in 1981, he challenged his record label to lower the price of his latest LP ;D

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Well, I would like to know if the songs in question were written by McCartney...if so I don't really see the problem...as for petty...Yuko giving Crazy Mike Beatles songs wasn't just petty...it was just plain criminal.  Why isn't anyone pissed at her or Jackson for that matter, selling out all the Beatles tunes for commercials when John led the lawsuit with his mates, against Nike back in '87 when they used "Revolution" for one of thier spots?......And Speaking of Tom Petty....I loved it when, in 1981, he challenged his record label to lower the price of his latest LP ;D
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Yoko is a tumor.  Michael Jackson is the metastasis.  And Tom Petty is now my hero, I did not know that, that was really noble of him.

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Yoko is a tumor.  Michael Jackson is the metastasis.  And Tom Petty is now my hero, I did not know that, that was really noble of him.
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Yes...I very much like Tom Petty and his standards and beliefs for not Selling Out like Metallica, Skynard ect. But what really upsets me is the FACT that the Beatles did NOT want thier songs used in commercials...Yucko Knows this as does Flit-boy and yet everyone seems to forget that and jump on Yucko's band wagon when she gets all bent out of shape (Probably an improvement over the way she looks now) over Paul switching the credits.  Are the songs in question ones that were written by him when with the Beatles or by John?  If John wrote any and Paul wants his name first on THOSE then I will be the first in line to be upset with him.

Quoting:Speaking of Tom Petty....I loved it when, in 1981, he challenged his record label to lower the price of his latest LP ;D
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Of course, George Harrison had already done this in 1970, with All Things Must Pass.

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Of course, George Harrison had already done this in 1970, with All Things Must Pass.


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Well I already like George...I like anyone who stands up to the greedy bastards in the record industry.