{"id":1522,"date":"2016-05-05T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:22:36","slug":"monthly-songwriting-tips-from-songregistration-com-plus-the-lennon-mccartney-songwriting-team-a-long-and-winding-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/monthly-songwriting-tips-from-songregistration-com-plus-the-lennon-mccartney-songwriting-team-a-long-and-winding-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly #\u200eSongwriting Tips from #SongRegistration.com… (Plus: The Lennon-McCartney Songwriting Team \u2013 A Long and Winding Road)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First, some tips\u2026
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\n1. Looking for authenticity? Try writing auto-biographically.
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\n2. When collaborating with others, decide songwriting credits right away (how to split potential revenues) to avoid future disputes (read https:\/\/goo.gl\/8SQw2d).
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\n3. Focus particularly on your song’s opening lines. They’re your best chance to pull in and engage your listener.
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\n4. Always keep rhythm in mind, eliminate clunky un-singable words, phrases or lines.
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\n5. Make sure you preserve your song copyrights<\/a> by professional registration. With SongRegistration<\/a>.com, it’s fast, cheap, and super-easy (and used by \u202a#\u200ecomposers\u202c worldwide).
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\nNow, some facts about one of the greatest collaborations ever: The \u202a#\u200eLennon_McCartney\u202c Catalog \u2013 Who owns them, Who wrote them\u2026
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\n1. Northern Songs LTD (formed by \u202a#\u200eJohn_Lennon\u202c, \u202a#\u200ePaul_McCartney\u202c, their manager, and a music producer) briefly published Lennon-McCartney songs until it was partly sold in 1969 to Associated Television (ATV) \u2013 which was eventually bought by Michael Jackson in 1985 (who asked McCartney and \u202a#\u200eYoko_Ono\u202c if they’d like to join in \u2013 they never did).
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\n2. After Jackson’s death, ATV merged with Sony (which will buy out Jackson’s 50% interest later this year). Sony\/ATV now owns the world’s largest music catalog \u2013 holding more than 2 million copyrights, including Lennon\/McCartney, \u202a#\u200eMichael_Jackson\u202c, \u202a#\u200eBob_Dylan\u202c, \u202a#\u200eNeil_Diamond\u202c, \u202a#\u200eTaylor_Swift\u202c, the \u202a#\u200eJonas_Brothers\u202c \u2013 and grossing 1-2 billion dollars in annual royalties.
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\n3. Many (if not most) of those “Lennon-McCartney” classics were actually written by just ONE of them. They simply agreed early on to label them all jointly, even when only one wrote the whole song (unlike most songwriting partnerships, they each wrote both lyrics and music). A few examples:
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\nWritten totally by Lennon (words and music) \u2013 Hard Days Night; Nowhere Man; I Am The Walrus.
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\nComposed solely by McCartney \u2013 Yesterday (the most covered song in history); Here, There and Everywhere (one of John’s all-time favorites); and Sgt. Pepper’s.
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