PAUL McCARTNEY says Yoko Ono denied him `Yesterday' credits

<br>LONDON (AP) _ Paul McCartney longed for ``Yesterday'' to be acknowledged as his song, but Yoko Ono wouldn't permit it, the former Beatle says. <br><br>``Yesterday,'' like most of

Tuesday, May 15th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

LONDON (AP) _ Paul McCartney longed for ``Yesterday'' to be acknowledged as his song, but Yoko Ono wouldn't permit it, the former Beatle says.

``Yesterday,'' like most of the Beatle songs, was officially credited to McCartney and John Lennon.

``At one point Yoko earned more from `Yesterday' than I did,'' McCartney said in an interview published Tuesday in Radio Times.

``It doesn't compute, especially when it's the only song that none of the Beatles had anything to do with. I asked as a favor if I could have my name before John's on the `Anthology' credits for `Yesterday,' and Yoko refused.''

McCartney also said ``it's not true'' that he is worth more than $1 billion, as The Sunday Times newspaper recently reported.

``I don't even know how much I'm worth, and I'm not sure my accountants know either,'' McCartney said.

``But I'm very well off, which is great because as a working-class lad from Liverpool, that was my intention.''