For the Pink Floyd fans, my favorite story about songwriting credits concerns the album “Animals”. There are 5 tracks, the three longer compositions in the midd

For the Pink Floyd fans, my favorite story about songwriting credits concerns the album “Animals”. There are 5 tracks, the three longer compositions in the middle and a very short song split into two “bookends” (so it counts as two songs). Roger Waters is credited as a songwriter on all 5 songs, with David Gilmour contributing to one. Now the way the accounting worked, every songwriting credit counted as one “share” of the royalties. Without this short song, Waters would have gotten 3/4 of the songwriting royalties. By including it and splitting it in half, he got 5/6. Was it a purely artistic choice? We will never know, but as the story goes the resentment between the two eventually snowballed and the band broke up.