"We had a meeting with Brian Epstein [manager of the Beatles]. I arrived late. John and Brian had been talking. 'We were thinking we ought to call the songs, Lennon and McCartney.' I said, 'That's OK, but what about McCartney and Lennon? If I write it, what about that? It sounds good, too.' They said, 'OK, what we'll do is we'll alternate it: Lennon and McCartney, McCartney and Lennon.' Well, that didn’t happen. And I didn’t mind."