(300) Disputes of 2018 with the co-author´s widow whether his name or yours comes first. ´YESTERDAY´
On the evening of October 26th, 2024 I found that a guy working on our house had rearranged some stuff. And that had (somehow!) resulted in a page from a letter of mine from 2018 ending up on my writing desk. It was from a dispute with Bob Woffinden's widow in which I pointed out that the first draft of our co-authored book Bad Show had been some 75,000 words. Of which he had written none. But I was sure I had been keeping 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. In noting, whimsically, that when McCartney asked Lenno's widow, Yoko Ono, if she would agree to an altered listing of Yesterday not...