“The entire solo catalog of the late rock icon John Lennon will be made available for Internet download for the first time in December, his record label has said,” Reuters reports. “The digital release of Lennon’s collection makes him the first former Beatle whose whole body of solo work has been made commercially available on legitimate online music services, EMI Music said.”
Reuters reports, “The Lennon material will be sold by such online music services as Napster, Rhapsody, MSN Music and Yahoo Music Unlimited. One music site conspicuously excluded from the digital release is iTunes due to a trademark dispute between its parent company, Apple Computer Inc, and the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd over competing names of the two entities.”
Reuters reports, “The digital release of Lennon’s songs roughly coincides with two notable red-letter dates — his would-have-been 65th birthday last month and the 25th anniversary of his murder by a deranged fan outside his New York apartment building on December 8, 1980.”
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Lennon was a great musician. I’m sorry to see that his works won’t be on iTunes (yet) due to a petty dispute. However, it’s his record company that will lose, only selling through also-ran, second rate distributors.
Who? And by who I mean who cares.
Long Live John Lennon. Dead in person, but alive in everybody.
I guess that 80 percent of his digital sales will not be happening
You know how to reunite the Beatles?
Shoot the other two.
Actually, I don’t think the dispute is “petty” at all. Their earlier agreement stated that Apple Computer wouldn’t get into the music business. At the time, this wasn’t an issue.
Now, of course, Apple Computer is totally immersed in the music business. Apple Corps has a right to be pissed with them.
For all our sakes, however, I hope that they settle this like gentlemen (i.e. Steve Jobs gives Neil Aspinall a sh*tload of money) so we can download Beatles tunes from iTunes.
More likely the 99c flat pricing scared Yoko off.
“You know how to reunite the Beatles?
Shoot the other two.”
Unless someone also shhots Yoko so she can break them up again.
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Boy will be years before the suit if resolved for sure. That will keep the other systems alive. Smart move on their part.
good one dave H, she IS a slumlord byatch.
Opinions vary, but mine is that without Paul, John would have got nowhere, and the reverse not so true.
Lennon sucks the big lebowski. Paul was a much better musician/philosopher.
Who cares. Go to a used CD store and buy all of John’s albums and all the Beatles albums for $5.99 each. Rip, Mix, Burn.
Apple Corps is petty, sorry bscepter.
At the rate mp3 manufacturers are folding, there won’t be any other music services next week except itunes.
Yoko’s trust fund must be running low.
Anyone out there have email address’ for EMI records and Apple records….Their web sites don’t seem to want to have anyone contacting them….unless you use snail mail.
Those saying disparaging comments about Yoko …. Well, opinions are like belly buttons … etc..
Those saying Paul had the most to do with the success of the Fab Four, couldnt have been around back then…
Truth be told … it was John who actually wrote the lions share of the songs, now attributed to the “Lennon/McCartney” team…
(Even today, Paul describes The Beatles as … “Johns Band”)
It was, in fact, John who was the brains of the band..
It was John who successfully pulled off what was probably the greatest marketing coup (ever)..of that era.. Those who were alive back then know what I mean ..
Everyone, back then, had their favorites, but to dismiss Johns contribution is to miss the whole point of what the collective group accomplished..
As far as Apple Corps refusing to sell their library on the ITMS … well, its their loss…
Besides… who wants to “rent” their music encoded in that WinCrap Media format…anyhoo ?
Apple Corps is about as alive as a music business as Admiral Lord Nelson’s corpse in St Pauls cathedral. Hope Apple Corps rots too.
“Imagine…there’s no sales for you..
ooh-ooh-hoo”
Apple Corp (Beatles label) really has no reason to go after Apple Computer because iTunes isn’t a music producer/manufacturer/etc..
Apple computer is simply a retailer. They aren’t infringing on anything Apple Corp asked them to stay away from because they are no more producing music than Wal-Mart, Target, or even Napster. The agreement was that they couldn’t produce music and distribute it. Suing Apple over iTunes is like suing a store in a town named Apple records. I think it’s just Apple Corp grasping at straws hoping to make money by extortion since they don’t currently produce anything anyone buys other than Beatles and those are in less and less demand.
It’s all a shame…
The Beatles were all about creativity and innovation, much like Apple computers.
I’m sure Lennon himself would have wanted to be associated with only the best i.e. iTunes/iPod, and not let legal wrangling put his music under distribution of second rate download services.
…if only McCartney and Starr could understand
Apple Corps would make more selling their music on iTunes that they will ever make up for in this petty lawsuit…
…and Apple may be in the “music business”, but only as a reseller – not a record label like Apple Corps.
Johnny had the “edge.”
The entire solo catalog of the late rock icon John Lennon will be made available for Internet download for the first time in December
They’ve come too late to the party. So late, in fact, that most fans have it already … downloaded from the internet … bootlegs and parodies and the whole shebang. Not legit, of course, but then … what took you so long?
Steve should by the Beatles rights from Micheal. He needs the money any way.
I was around back then. Yoko was (and is) an ugly no talent hog. The way she has milked his legacy and acted like she’s important causes me to raise bile just thinking of it. Her music was some of the worst crapola ever recorded. What a bunch of annoying garbage. Hopefully, Yoko will join John sooner rather than later.
Hopefully the Beatles will join iTMS sooner rather than later.
Hopefully the asshole who shot John joins Satan sooner rather than later.
Hopefully, AAPL goes to $75 sooner rather than later.
Imagine Part 2
(w apologies to J Lennon)
Imagine there’s no Lawyers
It’s easy if you try
No courts to try us
All free as the sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no Apple Corps
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to sue or file for
And no torts too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no copyrights
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one