Talk:My Love (Paul McCartney and Wings song)

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Songwriting credit
The article currently credits both Paul and Linda McCartney as the song's composers. This contradicts statements I've read in several McCartney/Beatles books. For example, in The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, Bruce Spizer writes of the Red Rose Speedway album in general: "Once again, Paul served as his own producer, but this time out he did not give wife Linda co-producers credit. Songwriters credit was simply listed as 'McCartney'." In Eight Arms to Hold You, Chip Madinger and Mark Easter say that, since the "My Love" single appeared a few weeks in advance of the album, "it was the first composition Paul owned outright after the expiration of the 1963 Lennon/McCartney Northern Songs contract." For all Wings releases from this 1973 single onwards, the songs are credited to McCartney only in Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik's All Together Now (a 1976 book I've found to be close to perfect aside from occasional factual errors that have only been revealed over subsequent decades).

The impression I've got from some of the other sources I'm using or looking to use in the article – the books by Vincent Benitez, Alan Clayson, Tom Doyle, Garry McGee, Robert Rodriguez, Howard Sounes, Bob Woffinden – is that, with the settlement of his differences with Lew Grade regarding Northern Songs, McCartney no longer had to employ the ruse of crediting Linda in order to keep a portion of songwriting royalties outside Grade/ATV's control. The two parties agreed new terms for the contract starting in 1973. I'll go back to the sources and specify who exactly says that, or part of that. Perhaps one or two do list Linda as a co-writer, I'm not sure, but in no description of "My Love" does any author say that she actually had a hand in the song's composing. (And it's one of McCartney's love songs to Linda, of course, which makes the idea of her co-authorship especially surprising.)

Judging by what's listed in Category:Songs written by Linda McCartney, we appear to credit Linda as co-writer on all of her husband's Wings songs through to the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound. Then, all Wings songs from 1977 to '79 (eg "Girls School" and all other tracks not co-written by Denny Laine on London Town and Back to the Egg) are the work of McCartney alone. Does anyone have particular knowledge about this issue? It's been bugging me for years, in fact – the "McCartney" credit on the actual albums (eg, label images for Red Rose Speedway) being rendered as "Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney" in the song and album articles here. Thanks, JG66 (talk) 07:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Paul and Linda McCartney signed a new seven-year publishing agreement with ATV Music in mid-1972 and afterwards, up through Speed of Sound anyway, all their songs were credited to Paul and Linda McCartney. The records showed the songwriting credit simply as "McCartney", a pseudonym for Paul and Linda McCartney. The "no longer had to employ the ruse" bit is a myth. Ohnothimagain (talk) 12:16, 11 July 2019 (UTC)


 * OK, that scenario supports what appears in the relevant song and album articles – but what supports the scenario in the first place? Do you have sources for this? Thanks, JG66 (talk) 13:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)


 * All the copyright registrations show words and music by Paul and Linda McCartney. Some registrations show authorship by "McCartney, pseudonym of Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney" or "McCartney, aka Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney" or "McCartney, i.e. Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney" or "Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney aka McCartney". Ohnothimagain (talk) 15:24, 11 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Right. But again, where are you getting this stuff, where are your sources? JG66 (talk) 12:04, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

, thank you for adding a source for this. Much appreciated. JG66 (talk) 06:27, 27 September 2019 (UTC)