McCartney buries hatchet with Yoko Ono

Paul McCartney has buried the hatchet with Yoko Ono after a dispute over the songwriting credits of some of the best-known Beatles songs, it emerged today.

A row broke out after the singer reversed the renowned Lennon-McCartney credits of Beatles songs on his latest album.

The singer said he was happy to let the present title remain on future recordings.

“I’m happy with the way it is and always has been. Lennon and McCartney is still the rock ‘n’ roll trademark I’m proud to be a part of – in the order it has always been,” he said.

The ex-Beatle originally asked his songwriting partner’s widow to approve the change during the production of The Beatles Anthology album in order to denote songs which were in the most part his own creations.

The singer was particularly concerned about Yesterday, a song in which his collaborator reportedly had little input.

Yoko Ono refused the request and subsequently all 20 Beatles songs appearing on McCartney’s latest Back in the US live album were reversed to McCartney-Lennon.

It emerged last week that McCartney and wife Heather Mills, 35, were expecting their first child after marrying last year.

During the interview with the Scottish paper, he was coy about his private life but spoke of the rural retreat of High Park Farm, near Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, where his family retreated to following the band’s split.

But he would not be drawn on rumours fashion designer daughter Stella was planning to marry there later this year.

“I don’t know. I have no idea. It’s private to Stella,” he said.

McCartney is currently involved in the European leg of his Back in the World tour although a sell-out gig in Glasgow’s Celtic Park was called off after he lost his voice and a concert in Sheffield had to be rescheduled.

Speaking before the final date on the punishing tour in his home town of Liverpool, the 60-year-old musician vowed the series of concerts would not be his last.

He said: “I certainly am intending to tour again. People say, ‘Is this your last tour?’ But it has never entered my head that it might be the last.

“It’s like footballers – as long as you can score goals you keep playing, and for me that’s what it is.”