“In the spring of 2009, while recuperating from liver-transplant surgery in Memphis, Tenn., Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a special trip to Sun Studio, the legendary location where Elvis Presley recorded ‘Blue Moon’ and other hits,” Owen Thomas reports for The Business Insider.

“His tour guide was a young musician named David Brookings. Brookings made a big impression on Jobs,” Thomas reports. “According to The Daily, an Apple employee contacted Brookings and offered him a job building up Apple’s library of early blues and rock recordings in the iTunes Store.”

Thomas reports, “Sure enough, Brookings moved to California and started working at Apple in October 2009… What hasn’t been reported is what Brookings did next.
A source just pointed us to an incredible project Brookings undertook in 2010 and 2011 to record 209 Beatles songs in 209 days.”

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