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Originally Posted by glitter_fades
It's up to the people working on the music to decide who is author of what. Lennon and McCartney didn't co-write a lot of their music. One or the other did a lot of songs on their own. The co-authorship was given on a lot of John and Paul tunes no matter who did what. With Stevie and Lindsey I'm sure we'll never get agreement on whether LB deserved credit for any of Steive's music. I personally believe he did deserve but never asked for it. Other's don't think so. Seeing as Stevie has so many co-authorships in her solo career, I find it hard to believe anyone else but Lindsey would have done the amount of "magic" on Stevie's songs, for nothing, as he did. Why else is all her pre-solo stuff credited only to her, but more than half her solo albums have co-credit or cover songwriters? Already ducking the flames... 
Here is Stevie's most recent view of her songwriting with LB. No mention was made of her songwriting with all the other people she's co-authored with, but as far as LB is concerned, he is only a producer and that's it.
http://www.viceland.com/se/v1n7/htdocs/long.php |
As she began relying more heavily on cowriters during her solo career, that's when it took a nose dive IMO.