The Beatles are inviting Internet users to take part in the “LOVE” global listening event.
The new album “LOVE” will be released on November 20th (21st in the U.S.) and to celebrate, The Beatles are offering everyone the chance to hear the whole album online first. All you have to do to take part is to login using your email address and add your pin to the world map. You will be able to view all the other people who have listened to the album around the world.
The Beatles have also added the exclusive film featuring interviews with Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono Lennon, Olivia Harrison and Sir George Martin. The film explains how the tracks were re-worked for LOVE – the music and visual collaboration between The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil. Sir George and his son Giles Martin have been working with the entire archive of Beatles recordings to create LOVE – the result is an unprecedented approach to the music of The Beatles.
More info here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Phil” for the heads up.]
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This is all you need.
And what the hell does this have to do with Apple or anything Mac? You guys are way over the top lately.
Dave, know ye nothing of the history of Apple, music, and the Beatles?
Please, go find another site.
dave,
Apple Computer is fscking named “Apple” because of Steve Jobs’ love of The Beatles, you fscking moron.
Wow. You really can squeeze blood from a stone.
http://www.thebeatles.com/hearlove/audio/1.mp3 …
… http://www.thebeatles.com/hearlove/audio/26.mp3
Thanks AudioHijack. I can’t really imagine paying good money just to get remixes of songs I already own (in some cases multiple times).
I have always, and will always, hate the Beatles.
Wow, “The Beatles” have a website on the internet. Bleeding Cutting Edge Stuff, That.
@ Exasperated: Not so. I heard Woz speak in the 80’s. The name came about because one of the two of them, Jobs i think, was working picking Apples for a while. Jobs thought the Apple was nearly the perfect food, and so wanted to name the company after it.
Theloniusmac:
There are some things it’s better to keep to yourself!
And ‘Macintosh’ came from Job’s or someone’s favourite apple – of that name.
The actual facts:
1. Jobs named Apple Computer after The Beatles’ Apple Records.
2. Jef Raskin named the Macintosh after his favorite Apple, the McIntosh.
Period. End of story. The facts.
Sosumi – The system sound name pointed directly at the Beatles’ recording company: “Apple”
The Steve promised The Beatles that HIS Apple would never be involved with audio playinig or recording after they expressed litigious feelings over the name of his company.
M.X.N.T.4.1,
63 kbps = yuck.
Gee theloniusMac, thanks for sharing. That certainly helps me evaluate this news. Or put another way, who do you think gives a rat’s a$$ whether you hate the Beatles or not?
MW: “often” as in “I often read usless tripe like your post on the Internet.”
FactChecker…
Your sources are at best, apocraphyl.
No one is really sure where the name came from.
“… Because they were going into business, they needed a name for their company. According to Wozniak, it was Jobs who thought up the name for their new computer company one afternoon as the two drove along Highway 85 between Palo Alto and Los Altos.
“Steve was still half involved with a group of friends who ran the commune-type All-One Farm in Oregon. And he would go up and work there for a few months before returning to the Bay Area. He had just come back from one of his trips and we were driving along and he said ‘I’ve got a great name: Apple Computer.’ Maybe he worked in apple trees. I didn’t even ask. Maybe it had some other meaning to him. Maybe the idea just occurred based upon Apple Records. He had been a musical person, like many technical people are. It might have sounded good partly because of that connotation. I thought instantly, ‘We’re going to have a lot of copyright problems.’ But we didn’t. Both of us tried to think of technical-sounding mixtures of words, like Executek and Matrix Electronics, but after 10 minutes of trying, we both realized we weren’t going to beat Apple Computer.”…”
The actual facts:
1. Jobs named Apple Computer after The Beatles’ Apple Records.
You are good. Even Steve Wozniak didn’t really know how Jobs came up with that “fact”:
“Steve was still half involved with a group of friends who ran the commune-type All-One Farm in Oregon. And he would go up and work there for a few months before returning to the Bay Area. He had just come back from one of his trips and we were driving along and he said ‘I’ve got a great name: Apple Computer.’ Maybe he worked in apple trees. I didn’t even ask. Maybe it had some other meaning to him. Maybe the idea just occurred based upon Apple Records. He had been a musical person, like many technical people are. It might have sounded good partly because of that connotation. I thought instantly, ‘We’re going to have a lot of copyright problems.’ But we didn’t. Both of us tried to think of technical-sounding mixtures of words, like Executek and Matrix Electronics, but after 10 minutes of trying, we both realized we weren’t going to beat Apple Computer.”
And the first Apple logo actually was a picture of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an Apple tree.
Oops! Got beat by theloniousMac. That’s what I get for hunting for links.
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Poppycock:
Apparently a couple of you “… gives a rat’s a$$ whether you hate the Beatles or not…” as you posted useless tripe as you say, in response.
To tell the truth, you might be a bit surprised just how many people have cared how much I detest, no loathe in fact, the nonharmonious, discordant clamor that masquarades as music, coming from the so called Beatles.
>I have always, and will always, hate the Beatles.
AMEN!
The only stuff I can stand from them are the cover songs they played during Hamburg days with Stu Sutcliffe, the cool Beatle. Their music was shoved down my throat as a kid and I always cringe when I hear them now.
Screw the Beatles!! They are so dead the only revenue possibility was to sue Apple Computer.
Want some good stuff? Go Led Zeppelin. THAT’S a rock band!!
Again, screw the Beatles!
I never had much time for the beatles either.
Now where’s my limited edition Beatles iPod?
And I hate puppies, and little kids, and fresh water, and .. and.. you know I’ll think of some more.
And rocks. Stupid rocks! They’re all dumb as… rocks! Yaah! Who’s with me!?!?
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