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Thats really harsh. Who are you to judge someone's worth?

Hey, when he's right, he's right.

[Mairi]

No, really. Yoko is NOT talented. I don't have anything against avantg-arde music, but I'm sure the majority of avant-garde artists are ashamed to have Yoko as their main representative. She's so pretentious.

[Mushmouth]

I thought it was always lennon/mccartney because L is before M in the alphabet.

[Mairi]

It's Lennon/McCartney because the syllables sound right, like Rogers & Hammerstein or Gilbert & Sullivan.

[raxo]

I wouldn't want Yoko Ono as my co-writer on anything.

[raxo]

But they promised each other before they were famous that everything they'll write in the future they will always give each other credit even if they didn't write it together.

McCartney broke the rule quite early with The Family Way (1996) ...

[raxo]

It's easy for Paul to speak out now-John's been dead for over twenty years. He never came out like this when John was alive. ...

It's easy for everybody, not only for Paul ... and as adamzero said John sung about Paul's Yesterday in How Do You Sleep? ...

And it would be crazy to try to split all the songs up-this is McLennon-this is Lenartney. Most of the early songs were cowritten-eyeball to eyeball-as both John and Paul have said. ...

(shakehead1) Very very very few of the early songs were cowritten -eyeball to eyeball- ... even the ones before they recorded their first single ...

... yep, some little help in some songs during the Guymania (other people collaborated too, please don't forget that!!!) ...

... and most of them individual songs (theirs and the ones that they gave away!!!) ... tons!!! ... the best example: A Hard Day's Night album ... and they were working hard to finish it for the movie, so imagine!!!  :

I'm sure none of the people we go on about in this forum couldn't give a shiney sh*te what any of us thought of them.

[Mairi]

I think it's interesting to note that on my orginal 1967 vinyl copy of Joan Baez's "Joan" album, the writing credits for Eleanor Rigby are listed as "McCartney/Lennon."

well this is what i read in a paul interview with a magazine last year about the subject..(i think i've posted it before but anywho)..here is some of it:

paul:.....Anyway, to the famous changing the order of the names.
INTERVIEWER:..Looked like a resentment?
Paul: Well, it wasn't. When i try to explain it it gets blown out of proportian again, so i can't be bothered...but i will f***ing (note, its paul swearing folks!!) try to explain it again. In the beatles anothology cd booklet the lyrics to yesterday had a picture of john above them and the creditwas ''written by John lennon and Paul McCartney, i dont have a problem, its a logo.I merley asked if on that one occasion when we were using the full names, it could say written by paul mccartney and john lennon. And i was rebuffed.

[somedude210]

i realize that yoko is a deadbeat, talentless, whore. but that no good, deadbeat, talentless, screaming like a banshee, whore gave john the reason to write some of his greatest songs. so they were about yoko, who cares. they are some of his best songs, and they're about yoko.

...but she will always be a no good, deadbeat, talentless, screamin' like a banshee, whore.

[Loco Mo]

I wouldn't mind the credits citing the exact authorship of any particular Beatles song.  For that matter, they could just have shown "The Beatles" as the writers.  I wonder why they didn't do that.  

At least, George got full credit for his songs.