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Naturalust
1. Anita was tired of seeing MJ's credit first and bullied the record co. to have it changed.
2. Mick did it as a joke to see if Keith would notice (he didn't).
3. It was a kiss off to MT as in "see, not all our songs are Jagger/Richards compositions.
4. It was a joke to see if the fans would notice (they did).
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71Tele
I am more curious as to why they seemed to rotate between "Richards" and "Richard" at least through the B&B album.
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Title5Take1
John and Paul each fought for his name first, but Brian Epstein was on John's side and said, "It'll be Lennon/McCartney." Paul said, "Why?" Brian: "Because it sounds better." Paul: "McCartney/Lennon sounds good." Brian: "No." Paul later said, "John could be a bit bossy." (From the Anthology DVD)
For the version of "Yesterday" on Anthology 2 Paul called up Yoko and said, "Could for just this album it be credited to "McCartney/Lennon"? She said, "Yes," but then called back and said, "No."
But Paul uses the "McCartney/Lennon" credit on at least two of his solo live albums.
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71Tele
I am more curious as to why they seemed to rotate between "Richards" and "Richard" at least through the B&B album.
Dropping the terminal R was Oldham's idea. If I understand correctly it was to create some sort of association with Cliff Richard in the fans' minds.
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GasLightStreet
It seems that Jagger-Richard or Jagger-Richards is a lock and is alphabetical, it's not who wrote what - clearly. If that was the case there'd be quite a few songs missing one of their names. Then again, the 7 or 8 songs with Ronnie is Jagger-Richards-Wood. But later on there are some songs with a name that would come before Keith's and that's not the case.
I've seen other albums by various people and not everything is listed alphabetical. Perhaps the alphabetical way is an English thing because you've got Lennon-McCartney and not McCartney-Lennon.