EMI Music has retained Paul McCartney’s solo catalog and is preparing a comprehensive re-launch, including new digital campaigns as well as physical re-releases. This means that, for the very first time, McCartney and Wings albums will be made available across all digital platforms – more details to be announced shortly.
The catalog stretches from Paul’s first solo album McCartney through his releases with Wings to his latest critically-acclaimed studio album Chaos And Creation In The Backyard. Within these albums lies a breathtaking list of singles including Band On The Run, My Love, Let ‘Em In, and Jet.
Tony Wadsworth, chairman & CEO, EMI Music UK said in the press release, “Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles catalog, spanning four decades, is one of the great treasures of popular music. EMI is proud to be introducing Paul’s music to the digital marketplace.”
Paul McCartney recently received the Album of the Year award at the Classical Brit Awards for his classical album Ecce Cor Meum.
Paul McCartney releases his next studio album Memory Almost Full on 4th June 2007.
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press30.htm
According to Rob Mead, reporting for Tech.co.uk, “Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is to sell his back catalogue through iTunes and other online music stores.”
Mead reports, “The news is sure to throw fans of The Beatles into a frenzy and this clearly opens the door to a release of the Fab Four’s catalogue online. It’s also something that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has long been waiting for – he said Apple would do “whatever we can” to get The Beatles on to iTunes.”
“This all dovetails nicely with EMI’s move into DRM-free music . EMI announced a tie-in with Apple in March and also has the distribution rights to much of the Beatles’ musical output,” Mead reports.
Full article here.
The news is sure to throw fans of The Beatles into a frenzy
Oh yea, I hear the hooting and hollaring starting up now in the day room.
Old Charlie is dooing wheelies in his wheel chair.
Old Mary is foaming at the mouth and soiled her diaper.
My mistake, it’s dinnertime.
yawn…
MW: alone, as in am I alone on this?
Steve Jobs cares, and that’s about all that really matters when it comes to Apple…
Nursing Home Aid,
I appreciate your humor, I’m laughing as I write this, but, c’mon, I’m 36 and love the Beatles….
How can one become an “ex”-Beatle? Never been able to wrap my mind around that one….
Ahhh yes, 40 years from now you young whipper snappers will all be clamoring for a “50 cent” rerelease of some of his greatest hits.
It a generation thing. Get over it.
To compete with this, Microsoft are to launch the entire back catalogue of ‘The Rutles (see here and here.) albums on the Zune store.
First release will be “Bland on the Run…”
…oops, sorry, that’s just Microsoft…
Well, let’s see. McCartney and Ringo Starr are there. Now all we need are George Harrison and John Lennon…
I expected the usual ageist crap to come forth from the folks who have been crippled by a lack of musical education and who still labor under the youthful delusion that they will remain young forever, and I see that the very first message delivered the goods.
Go play with your toys, sonny, and let us revel in new access to the surviving fragments of an era when music mattered, when there were songs that people would actually pay to hear, when musicians played instruments, and when people knew the difference between deejays and music makers.
It’s sad that our educational system has failed us so badly, but maybe in the future we will have political leaders who perceive that culture and knowledge are something to be desired and sought after, rather than the hallmarks of the enemy.
Until then, we will have to put up with the ignorant who neither understand nor appreciate that which came before them.
I miss those Linda McCartney backup vocals. It scared the neighborhood pets but I liked ’em.
“Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away. Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, in 2064?
– Sir Paul’s Head in a Jar
who cares. gawd. I want real news. New products. Apple world domination!!!
I’m over 50. I have all recorded Beatles tunes that I’m aware of.
I have no post-Beatles Paul McCartney songs.
That sums up my interest.
As we all know Paul died in 1966 and was replaced by William Shears Campbell
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MACcartney!
Why hasn’t Ringo been knighted? Still too much of a day tripper?
jet
junior’s farm
maybe i’m amazed
…and pretty much all of ‘ram’
are all brilliant songs. add that to solo stuff by harrison and lennon, and you’ve got a helluva catalog for the post-beatles fabs. hell, even ringo’s R I N G O album is great!
Who cares? Just go out and buy Wings Greatest Hits and rip it.
Until the world accepts that man-love with young boys is perfectly normal, I will not relinquish any part of the Beatles catalogue for on-line distribution. I don’t like, nor have I ever liked, any of the Beatles or their music, but I know that owning the whole collection is power. Now that I’m in a country that does not follow US extradition laws, you can pretty much forget ever getting your grubby little honkey hands on my Beatles catalogue.
– Michael Jackson
… I almost forgot: I am not EBONY Paul, you little bug-eyed Ivory freak.
-MJ
What a bunch of losers.
Why don’t ya’ll go back into your metrosexual apartments and listen to Coldplay.
Yeah, The Beatles still matter.
Their music will matter until a time when guys like you let the world blow itself up.
MDN: “once” as in, once upon a time, music was great.
.daed si luaP
Not a Beatles fan per se – but Wings are great.
MJ – loser – you don’t own the catalog anymore….
Wouldn’t it be something if at the June intro of the iPhone Steve brought on stage Paul McCartney just to do a quick number (say “Band on the Run”) as he did John Maher. Steve is a showman after all so I wouldn’t put it passed him.
Divorce clears the mind, alimony sharpens the apetite! 🙁