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donegal | 11:44 Tue 14th Jun 2005 | Music
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On the beatles album 'Please Please Me' it shows the songs were done by (McCartney/Lennon) not (lennon/McCartney) Why is this?
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Please Please Me was The Beatles' first album, so I'd imagine they were experimenting with the billing order before settling on the catchier sounding Lennon and McCartney. It's fairly well-known these days that many "Lennon & McCartney" compositions were not really co-writes at all, but were written by one of them, with the other making at most a minor contribution. I guess they just kept the joint writing credit for simplicity's sake.
12:27 Tue 14th Jun 2005
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A couple of years back Paul McCartney changed the format so his name would be first. Probably a little bit of vanity!
12:27 Tue 14th Jun 2005
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Macca had a hissy fit because he felt overshadowed by a dead man.
13:28 Tue 14th Jun 2005
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Yup, McCartney has managed to have his name put first. But that's not the story behind Please Please Me :

http://www.answers.com/topic/lennon-mccartney
15:00 Tue 14th Jun 2005

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