CNN.com – McCartney ‘puts record straight’ – Apr. 5, 2003
But McCartney, who has long complained that Lennon, for instance, had no input in the hit “Yesterday,” wants the songs fairly labelled.
I had always heard that Lennon named the song and gave it it’s hook (Paul had been singing “scrambled eggs” for lack of a more appropriate choice).
Seems that was apocryphal, after all.
But why does he care, after all these years? It seems ungracious to care about billing after 40 years, especially when your partner has been dead 20+ years.