[QUOTE] [b]21st Century Music Fan wrote:[/b][b]Greatest Hits III:[/b]
John - 12.9%
Brian - 26.6%
Freddie - 33.5%
Roger - 15.9%
David Bowie - 1.2%
Elizabeth Lamers - 2%
Mike Moran - 2.9%
Frank Musker - 2%[/QUOTE]

Since 'Another One Bites The Dust' featuring Wyclef Jean/Pras/Free is also on this album, I always wondered how the writing credits for that track were devided.

I know that officially only John was credited on releases for writing that version of the track, but it is not unusual with such kind of rap remakes that the rapper gets a lyricwritercredit for writing additional lyrics of his own rap part.
(Same with samples being used in tracks BTW, often the writers of the used sample are co-credited on the new track that uses the sample)

Assuming that each rapper wrote his own rap on that version it could mean a completely different %
Another One Bites The Dust (Wyclef Jean Remix) :
Music: John Deacon 50%
Lyrics: John Deacon 12,5%
Add. Lyrics: Wyclef Jean 12,5%
Add. Lyrics: Pras 12,5%
Add. Lyrics: Free 12,5%
that is.... if the lyrics % are equally devided, I could imagine that Queen wanted to keep the main lyric % since they wrote the original song, which could led to for example
JD 25% , WJ 8,3%, Pras 8,3% Free 8,3% or something else.

Then there is also the part that sometimes a remixer can get writing credits for a track if it differs a lot from the original version. Usually this is based purely on an agreement with the original writer.
For example I (2 friends and me) released a track a few years ago and we asked our producer if he could make a remix version as an additional track on the single. We agreed that we had to pay him a smaller amount of money for that job and in return he got a co-writercredit for the remix version of the track.
In our example that ment:
original version: ME 33%, FRIEND1 33%, FRIEND 33%
remix: ME 25%, FRIEND1 25%, FRIEND 25%, PRODUCER 25%

If the same happened to AOBTD Wyclef Jean remix in theory this could mean something like this:
Music: 50% / Lyrics: 50%
Music: JD 25%
Music (remix): WJ 25%
Lyrics (org) : JD 12,5%
Lyrics (add rap): WJ 12,5%
Lyrics (add rap): Pras 12,5%
Lyrics (add rap): Free 12,5%

As you see, it purely depends on what agreements were made, which we usually simply don't know.
This could possibly be found via a search at STEMRA/MCPS/GEMA/etc.