OnirMJ
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So if I wrote "Bohemian Rhapsody" with Freddie Mercury -- a fifty-fifty collaboration on the music and lyrics -- but he recorded the demo without my assistance, I would only get an arrangement or production credit???? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying here, that logic makes no sense. If you contributed chords or a principal melody, you wrote the song. No question.
Go album by album in their discography. All albums since Queen in 1973 until A Kind of Magic in 1986 had one credited writer per song in 99% of the cases. It was not until they found out Freddie is dying that they changed that policy and started all sharing the royalties no matter who wrote what and they were credited on all songs as Queen. The Miracle in 1989 was the first album where they were credited as Queen on all songs. Go watch the documentary where Brian May is talking about that. And it was Freddie's idea. Who comes up with the song's idea (demo) will be credited as a sole writer because Freddie considered it to be HIS song and not a collaboration with the band, even though they wrote guitar solos, some other instrumental parts, etc.
What I mean is that Greg P. in my opinion didn't deserve writing credits on DSTYGE, Teddy on Dangerous and SPYHO (and some others on some other songs)... just like Eddie Van Halen didn't receive it on Beat It, Slash on Give In To Me, etc. Also in my opinion Bill Bottrell shouldn't be credited on Black Or White just for writing that intro part.
Collaborations are of course entirely different thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_discography