On Saturday, December 9, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Sharon A. Lesakowski wrote:
> The following appeared in The Buffalo News, Thursday, 12/7/95:
> "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"
> The Wall Street Journal pointed out, in the wake of the recent
> Beatles TV retrospective, that although plenty of footage
> showed the Beatles performing, very little showed them
> "composing" their songs. Well, that could be because they
> didn't. A friend of ours, a local jazz veteran (he demands
> anonymity, for obvious reasons), insists that's the case. "The
> Beatles didn't write their songs," he scoffs. "They had ghost-
> writers. Billy Preston was one. It was common knowledge among
> musicians. Come on," he said, "To write such a huge number of
> catchy hits, you would have to be a big genius. And the
> Beatles?" He burst out laughing. We admit he has a point.
> We've seen Lennon and McCartney talk, and though flip and cute,
> they never exactly showed the smarts of Cole Porter.
>
> HAS ANYONE OUT THERE EVER HEARD SUCH TRASH BEFORE??? What I'm
> asking is that anyone who reads this respond to The Buffalo
> News as kind of a protest. How they could actually print this
> is beyond me. While I could not find an E-mail address any-
> where in the paper, the fax number is (716)856-5150 and the
> snail mail address is The Buffalo News, One News Plaza, Buffalo,
> NY 14240. Send your responses to the attention of Mary Kunz,
> who writes "Buzz" (the section this appears in). And if it
> isn't too much trouble, could you reply by e-mail to me if you
> choose to fax or write. I'd like to get an idea if we've caused
> much of a stir.
> They didn't write their own songs? Yeah, right!

Yeah, and "Ringo's" drum parts were actually Bernard Purdie.

This nameless jazz musician obviously doesn't know what a "ghost writer" is. There's camera footage of Billy Preston working with the Beatles. And they credited Preston with his contributions.