It looks as though Paul McCartney is once again trying assert his importance in the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team. For decades, McCartney has had issues with the fact that his late partner's name has come first in how the pair has been listed, taking particular umbrage in John Lennon getting “top billing” for Beatles songs he had little or nothing to do with.
Save for only three songs — “Please Please Me,” “A Hard Day's Night,” and “A Day In The Life” — McCartney's new career-spanning tome, The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present, credits all the co-written Beatles songs to “Paul McCartney and John Lennon.”
McCartney first switched the credits to “McCartney/Lennon” as opposed to the traditional “Lennon /McCartney” for his 1976 Wings Over America live album, for which Lennon had no public comment. He last switched the credits around for his 2002 live album, Back In The U.S.