Cosmos Rocks 2012 Universal

All tracks were written between the three of them.With Roger taking the lead on Cosmos Rockin,Small,Celeb,Not True,Surfs Up.Brian lead on Burnin,Believe,Things That Glitter.Paul lead writer on,Shine,Warboys,Call Me,Voodo,Through The Night.Hope that helps.

Thanks for the answers!)

Should we read more into the order of the second and third contributors? We know the first one is the one who took the lead but what about the order of the other two?

For instance, We Believe says "May, RODGERS, Taylor" and Some things that glitter says "May, TAYLOR, Rodgers".

On the other hand, Say it's not true has "Taylor, RODGERS, May" which is weird because I would assumed Brian had a lot more to do with that track with the big production on the new arrangement.

Brilliant, so the songs are STILL credited to Queen + Paul Rodgers then.

Marketing genius if ever I saw it.

That really is an exercise in ego isn't it?!

Crediting Say It's Not True to all three of them is crap - RT wrote it, and that's a clear fact from the original version. The Cosmos Rocks version is simply an arrangement, no change to the structure, lyrics, chords etc. You may as well give Five, Dappy, Britney/Beyonce/Pink, John Farnham etc a writing credit for WWRY.

They didn't credit Heaven For Everyone to Queen on the Made In Heaven version, and it stayed as credited to RT, despite a very big re-working, and the fact that they had made big noises about always crediting all songs to the band regardless from The Miracle onwards.

Well, it swings all three ways, doesn't it?

"Say It's Not True" was a Roger-penned track dating from the 46664 days and is credited to him alone on Return Of The Champions.

"War Boys" was a Paul track before Q+PR, on his Live In Glasgow release.

"Some Things That Glitter" is called "I Loved A Butterfly" on Kerry Ellis's album and is credited to Brian alone.

I pretty much disregard the second and third names on The Cosmos Rocks song-writing credits as an indication of who wrote what, given the inconsistencies they represent. The first name is basically the writer (or at best, "originator"), or so it seems.

Beyond that, the rest of the catalogue is pretty consistent with who wrote what, with the odd hiccup that probably has nothing to do with the band themselves. So it's not worth worrying about.

While we're on the subject of song-writing credits, I'm sort of curious why the editor of The Complete Illustrated Lyrics didn't credit Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee as co-authors of "See What A Fool I've Been," as not only was the song based on "That's How I Feel," it uses basically an entire verse from the blues track. This mystery was solved in 2004.

"While we're on the subject of song-writing credits, I'm sort of curious why the editor of The Complete Illustrated Lyrics didn't credit Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee as co-authors of "See What A Fool I've Been," as not only was the song based on "That's How I Feel," it uses basically an entire verse from the blues track. This mystery was solved in 2004."

Not entirely. Brian left us hanging as to what had happened afterwards when he approached the people responsible for the original songwriting credits.