I'm also on the John side, but not so thinly. Paul is truly an embarrassment today, and maybe John just didn't live long enough to get there, but something tells me he would have maintained much more credibility than Paul has. And he wrote some amazing post-Beatles songs, Instant Karma, #9 Dream, Working Class Hero, Watching the Wheels, God, and was fairly consistent, if not prolific. Paul did some good solo stuff as well, but early on, and he kind of petered out into schlokville early.
And for our purposes, Shiina's totals, so far:
John covers - 2 (Yer Blues, Starting Over)
Paul covers - 0
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