All this co-written he said/she said is getting out of hand. From all accounts we know for sure that Stevie wrote 5 of the songs: Secret Love, Soldier's Angel, New Orleans, and most likely the other 2 songs are Moonlight & Annabel Lee.
Of the remaining 8 co-written songs > 7 are Dave Stewart collaborations. So it's looking to me, most likely that D.S. added something new to the older M.C. & S.N. collaboration. Remember when Mike said Stevie wanted to dig up one of their older songs, and they went into the studio and made it even better! So unless, there are only 6 D.S. co-writes on the actual record
and the 7th one is the still to be announced *bonus track*, that would be my theory.
Other than that, the only songs we have confirmation on is that YMBTO & ELY are Dave/Stevie collaboration. Though, Jondalar, I'd bet money that "Italian Summer" is taken from the book of poems Stevie sent to Dave, in which he added chords and instrumentation to when they began writing together.
But until we all have the liner notes, we are going to drive each other crazy. Everything is speculative at this time. But, I guess it is fun, now that it looks like we have the official track list.
