Quincy Jones Interview


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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.
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.

Good point mapman, about the Lennon/McCartney songs authorship. Once they went solo, it became rather apparent, if one couldn’t already tell, which of them wrote any particular later Beatles song. I believe by the time of Rubber Soul, they were no longer writing together. Also, as time went on, the writer of the song sang the lead vocal or melody. They even let George sing Taxman. ;-)

By the way, that song has a fantastic guitar solo (go ahead, listen to it right now!), which even a Jazz guitarist would be proud to say he played. It was, in fact, played by Paul McCartney. Anyone who says The Beatles weren’t good musicians has a very different concept of good than do I.