Name a band that had 3 excellent song writers like the Beatles had. Most bands have one great writer and one good writer and the rest are just along for the ride. But the Beatles had 3 great song writers, all with varied interests that would take the music in all sorts of different directions.
John and Paul worked together to produce many of their song, bouncing ideas off of each other, and to them it was their band. Georgia was given one song of his own on each album and that was it. As his song writing talent started to emerge, I am sure he felt trapped by the rules that John and Paul had set out for him. He once described the two as "very pushy people." He was ready for it to end, when John pulled the plug.
Its a shame that they could not have gone off on their own and did their own thing, but still wanted to come back together to record in the future.
If you look at all the songs written by John and Paul they are all created Lennon/McCartney, the original agreement according to Paul was that the song writer that came up with the idea and wrote the majority of the song would have his name in the credit list first. After the death of John, Paul tried to get all the songs they wrote together rebadged that way, then Yoko throw a fit about it, he backed off, saying "he knows and John knew which songs each wrote," and that was good enough for him. Before his death, John did do an interview with Playboy, where John said he wanted to get it on record and they went song by song through their catalog and he said what part each had come up with. Some were totally together, some was just a word or a phrase given by the other, but the credit and the money would be split between them equally.
