If he's able to get the attribution change doesn't that free up the designation Lennon-McCartney and therefore rendering invalid the Michael Jackson ownership of the catalog?...which pisses Sir Paul off no end, by the way. This 'revisionist history' may have more to do with 'that' reality than anything else. Plus, he and Yoko aren't exactly mates and I'd be willing to bet she's never forgiven the 'flavor of the month' remark attributed to him. So, he probably wants to separate 'his' songs from a contract agreed to when young and naive re the music business. As a songwriter under contract myself I completely understand and applaud his efforts to do this. My deal is that I'm in for a third on the publisher's side. He's lost in the neighborhood of a billion dollars in royalties because of that deal. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is going through exactly the same process. Trying to extracate himself(and his bandmates)from a contract signed when young and hungry. And Dick James has got to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth