Apple today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes Store. Sixteen of Lennon’s solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the “Lennon Legend” and “Acoustic” collections making their worldwide digital debuts. For a limited period of 30 days, exclusive video content will be included with the albums “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” “Sometime in New York City,” “Walls and Bridges,” “Milk and Honey” and the collections “Anthology” and “Working Class Hero.”
“John would have loved the fact that his music will now be available in a format suited to a new generation of listeners,” said Yoko Ono, in the press release.
“John Lennon is one of the greatest artists of our time,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We’re thrilled to have his solo catalog available on the iTunes Store for the first time.”
As part of EMI Music’s digital catalog, the John Lennon solo works will be available in iTunes Plus, offering DRM-free music tracks with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings-for just $1.29 per song.
The iTunes Store features the world’s largest catalog with over five million songs, 550 television shows and over 500 movies. The iTunes Store has sold over three billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over two million movies, making it the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store.
Explore John Lennon’s solo catalog on Apple’s iTunes Store here.
Cue the comments about no one caring about the Beatles’ music, either as a group, or solo.
(What’s up with the “Sorry, we can’t accept your comments at this time?)
That should earn Apple some instant karma.
Well, at least Steve is probably very happy today and a happy Steve can only mean cool stuff for us in the future.
Ha. Take that, McCartney. The solo catalogue from the Beatle that actually mattered.
MDN I am deeply offended that you used the Y— word in this article. Please keep this site work safe.
Y _ _ _ O _ _ – gawd how I despised her. Sadly many of his solo efforts have her yowling like a scalded cat in the background. It still sends chills down my spine.
Whatever gets you through the night…
Are these 256bit or 128?
Happily, iTunes is not carrying John and Yoko’s “Two Virgins” album.
I never got the “I hate Yoko” thing.
Yoko was cool. She was certainly no musician, but she did interesting things… performance art, etc. By the time she came along, the B’s were already starting to move in separate directions.
So, what’s the beef with Yoko?
I dig Yoko. She’s an artist. But would gladly support a moratorium on, say, Stevie Nicks….
I was on the bay bridge when I heard the sad news back in ’82. Then Philip K. Dick wrote a book where the main character was on the bay bridge when she heard the sad news of John Lennon’s assasination.
(singing) Where were you?
Yoko is cool!
and apparently she brought Lennon much love and happiness!
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/showstickets/love/diary/redcarpet.htm
Welcome aboard, John (and Yoko)! The world needs more artists like you today.
Semaphore – It was 1980.
not 82.