Prince co-write on Stand Back?

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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

He just played on it. You usually don't get a co-writing credit for that. If that were the case, Waddy would be the co-writer of most of her songs.
Stevie spent a minimal amount of time with Prince; it was a very brief debauched coke-fueled encounter.

He didn't really "just play on it." He wrote the music that formed the basis of the song. She wrote words over his music, by her own admission. Then he came and added more of his music to to her new arrangement of his music. This is not like Stevie's other songs where she writes the music on a piano or guitar or something and a session player fills in the gaps.

If he had wanted credit, he could easily have got it. Even if she hadn't offered, he could easily have sued, her, and he likely would have won. Copyright and authorship are a very strange legal animal. For an example of how bad it can get, read up on the case of Bittersweet Symphony involving the Verve and the Rolling Stones.