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Lifted from another site:
I've been following the progress of the reversion of the US songwiting publishing for Paul McCartney's songs to MPL since 2019. As of now, all of his compositions published through 1967 have been returned to MPL, as well as several from early 1968, namely Flying, Lady Madonna, Step Inside Love, and, just this week, Blackbird. Now Blackbird was not supposed to revert to MPL until this coming December (all of his White Album songs are supposed to return in the late November/early December timeframe). So I suspect there was some kind of deal for Blackbird's return to allow Beyoncé to not only record her version of the song, but to use Paul's guitar work and foot tapping from the Beatles' original. I note that a lot of Beyoncé's songs were published by Sony/ATV Tunes according to ASCAP. Not only that, the ASCAP listing for Blackbird now also includes the alternate spelling of Blackbiird which Beyoncé's version is called. I would love to know the whole story, but it appears two very powerful people can exert a lot of influence over a corporate giant to get what they want! Paul, rather than Sony/ATV, will now make a ton of songwriting royalties from Beyoncé's version!
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@beatles4ever-1 Yes, but do something different. Give that song a whole new life in arrangement(s) and sound. Not a repeat.
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@oobu24 Blackbird is listed on Paul's MPL website.
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@jimmix Her version, while very lovely with the backup singers, is too adorned. There was a reason Paul/The Beatles/George Martin did not adorn it. The subject matter and the message are all the song needs.....not being overly pretty. IMO
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I'm looking at all of the credits of the Lennon/McCartney songs on the MPL website.
Even "Ticket to Ride" (a John song) is credited as McCartney, Lennon.
But hey, they're best friends. Or Best Mates.
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The count of Len-Mac ownership should be at 127 not counting the duplicates.