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(300) Writings of 2018 dispute with the other guy´s widow if his full name or your full name comes first. ´YESTERDAY´

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On the evening of October 26th, 2024 I found that a guy working on our house had rearranged some stuff, which had (somehow!) resulted in a page from a letter I had written in 2018, ending up on my writing desk. It was from a dispute with Bob Woffinden's widow in which I pointed out that my first draft of our co-authored book Bad Show had been some 75,000 words. Of which he wrote none. But I was sure I had kept that letter in a separate room. The bottom of the page of the letter had me pointing out that, when the manuscript was almost complete, he had suggested amending the styling of the title page from by James Plaskett and Bob Woffinden  to now read by Bob Woffinden and James Plaskett . I had not the slightest problem with that. Indeed, in my letter to his widow of August 9th 2018, I had cited something similar. ́ I responded, whimsically, that when McCartney asked Yoko if she would agree to a listing of Yesterday not as a Lennon and McCartney composition but a McCartney and Le