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Broadcast on Q107

McCartney explained to Stern that both Jackson and Ono were unwilling to budge in their negotiations with McCartney for both money and credit for his work during the time he was in The Beatles.

According to the New York Post's PageSix, McCartney's feud with Jackson started when Jacko bought the publishing rights to The Beatles' songs but didn't want to share the wealth. Said McCartney: "I wrote a couple of letters and I said Michael, don't you think that -- even if I was just a writer on the payroll -- after 30 years of being reasonably successful to this company that you now own, don't you think I could have a raise?"

Jackson's response: "Oh Paul, that's just business."

McCartney and Jackson no longer speak, and McCartney says that even if reports of Jacko's money problems are true, he will not buy back the rights from the self-proclaimed King of Pop. "The trouble is I wrote those songs for nothing and buying them back at these phenomenal sums . . . I just can't do it."

As for the Yoko issue -- McCartney told Stern that she originally wanted to get together with him, and moved on to John Lennon after Paul told her that he wasn't interested.

But the real reason behind the feud is due to Yoko's unwillingness to give McCartney first billing in the credits for the song "Yesterday." Instead of "Lennon/McCartney," he asked if she would change it to "McCartney/Lennon," since he was the writer and performer of the Beatles tune -- but Ono said no way.

"This is probably one of the reasons we don't have a great relationship," said McCartney. "John's name was always in front and I said, 'Could we just on this one just switch it, so it would say written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon?' And for one reason or another [she] said 'No.' "

"It wouldn't have cost her any money. This is all legal stuff."