Quincy Jones Interview

Thanks for the links Frogman. I remember Leonard Bernstein as a big Beatles fan and champion. In fact, he gave my parents reason to pause and listen to the point where they understood the music, loved some of it, and began to understand the feelings of the younger generation of which I was a member. Who cares if they were the best musicians? They made the best music. 

Fake news, schubert. You may be thinking of "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison, on his All Things Must Pass album. The copyright holder of the song "He's So Fine" sued for plagiarism and won. The two songs share a chord sequence and melody in their verses. 

Thx Bdp24 for sharing I must listen more to Big Pink so far I didn’t get into them in any way even having listened extensively.

Just to be clear on above post, I have nothing but total admiration for the hard working talented band of The Beatles  - just not my go to group for technical musical jaw-dropping prowess in fact far from it - rather ho hum on that dimension.

I suspect Schubert is probably thinking of the Monkeys.

Schubert its generally known fact that not all songs credited to Lennon-McCartney were in fact written by both, especially in the latter years. Their arrangement was all songs the two of them did with The Beatles were credited to both, however many credited to Lennon/Mccartney were written solely by either Lennon or McCartney.

Other that that it is a pretty safe bet that the songs that were credited as written by one or more members of The Beatles were in fact.   No shenanigan's there!

Regarding The Monkees, most all of their earlier songs were written by others and credited accordingly, but I believe many of their latter songs were in fact written by group members. Not to say that they may not have still had some help. Not sure about that.