The Most Iconic Feud ( Paul Mccartney vs John Lennon) | Video Essay

Welcome to my video essay on the Feud between Paul McCartney and John Lennon from the beatles.

You all probably know about how Michael Joseph Jackson snatched the Lennon McCartney catalog right on top of Paul McCartney's nose, as Paul McCartney how do you try to low ball your own material so you get rights to it cheaper even though you know your material is the most valuable material in music history

Obviously it's bound to be a bidding war with the price going upwards, why low ball, why not try buy it all cost, look at Sony paying more than $2 Billion to get their hands on Michael_Jackson's share of SONY ATV publishing and His Mijac catalog

Sony understood that Universal and Warner music are likely to also take interest in those two shiny material,

But we are not here to talk about that, today

When McCartney and Lennon met as teenagers and began writing songs together, they agreed that all songs written by them (whether individually or jointly) should be credited to both of them

The earliest Beatles recording credited to Lennon–McCartney to be officially released is "You'll Be Mine", recorded at home in 1960 and included on Anthology 1 35 years later

Let's quickly take a look at their little squabble over who wrote which song

First up is the song called "Help!" you all know this massive hit, Lennon described the song as co-written in 1965 interviews but In later interviews, he said yeah i wrote that shit alone,
While on the other hand McCartney stated help was on the "countermelody", estimating the song as "70–30" to Lennon. In 1984, McCartney said "John and I wrote it at his house in Weybridge for the film."

You think that's funny, Oh you guys will love this one, the next song is "ticket to ride."
Lennon said that McCartney's contribution was limited to "the way Ringo played the drums". In Many Years from Now, McCartney said "we sat down and wrote it together ... give him 60 percent of it."

John was brutal with his words i tell you, he really was a rock star,

Eleanor Rigby, In the 1997 biography Many Years from Now, McCartney recalled writing the music to "Eleanor Rigby" on a piano at Jane Asher's family home in Wimpole Street, and then playing it to Donovan, who supported that the song lacked any serious lyrics at that point. In 1972, Lennon said that he wrote 70 per cent of the lyrics, but Pete Shotton, Lennon's childhood friend, remembered Lennon's contribution as being "absolutely nil". In 1985, McCartney said that Lennon had contributed "about half a line" to the song, but elsewhere (including a 1966 interview) he describes finishing the song with more substantial collaboration with Lennon. Harrison also contributed to this song. According to journalist Hunter Davies, the last verse was finished with all the Beatles giving suggestions in the studio

In October 1962, the Beatles released their first single in the UK, "Love Me Do", credited to "Lennon–McCartney". However, on their next three releases the following year (the single "Please Please Me", the Please Please Me LP, and the single "From Me to You"), the credit was given as "McCartney–Lennon".
With the "She Loves You" single, released in August 1963, the credit reverted to "Lennon–McCartney", and all subsequent official Beatles singles and albums list "Lennon–McCartney" (UK) or "John Lennon-Paul McCartney" (US) as the author of songs written by the two.

In 1976 McCartney's band Wings released their live album Wings over America with songwriting credits for five Beatles songs reversed to place McCartney's name first. Neither Lennon nor Yoko Ono publicly "voiced a word of disapproval about it". Many years after Lennon's death however, in the late 1990s, McCartney and Ono became involved in a dispute over the credit order.

What i don't get is why Yoko Ono was complaining about the order coz she wasn't there in 1960 when the lads were having the agreement, if one of them is gone then clearly the other one can do whatever he wants with the order and no one has the right to stop him honestly unless if Paul was completely removing John Lennon from the credits, which i doubt he would do,

McCartney's 2002 live album, Back in the U.S., also used the credit "Paul McCartney and John Lennon" for all of the Beatles songs.When Ono objected to McCartney's request for the reversed credit to be used for the 1965 song "Yesterday", McCartney said that he and Lennon had agreed in the past that the credits could be reversed, if either of them wanted to, on any future releases.