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.
Lennnon on iTunes, Imagine that…
Okay, we got Lennon. Now where’s Lenin?
Don’t you hate these fakey, stale, nonsense press releases manufactured by a group of morons in the PR office? Damn, and get rid of that awful word ‘thrilled’.
New on iTunes: The Complete Ono
1: Eeeeeee
2: yaya Ya!
3: Don’t sit on it, Don’t sit on it, Don’t sit on it, Don’t sit on it.
4: Razor Pig
5: Variations on Ooo ahpee ahpee
6: The Darkness of Ouch
7: White Noise, More White Noise
8: Chalk Board Symphony
9: Blood Glass Death Flower
10: 56 minutes of Overhead Fan
11: Ono Louder
Bash Yoko all you want, but her music made possible a lot of the music you hear today. Curent musicians constantly refer to her as a major influence in their music.
“Bash Yoko all you want, but her music made possible a lot of the music you hear today.”
That explains the hives. THANKS!
And yet, you may be on to something. Audio engineers need strong samples for developing quality sound filters. Too bad so many dogs had to suffer needlessly.
I’m still waiting for that film on wind.
From the Foundation of Bowlers Filled with Perfume and a Floating Plum.
“So, what’s the beef with Yoko?”
A lot of the emnity for Ono comes from the perception that she “broke up the Beatles.” A careful reading of the group’s history shows that the Lennon/McCartney relationship was essentialy disfunctional before Ono and Lennon became a couple, but for the general public it’s a more compelling storyline to say that it was the woman’s fault.
On top of that, Paul was hardly blameless. He pushed for his father-in-law to become the band’s new manager, and made them record songs they couldn’t stand, like “Obladi, Oblada” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”.
I’ll be buying some of these albums. Some of Lennon’s LPs were my favorite to check out of the library when I was a kid.
We are thrilled to be thrilled
OK, 1982. Sorry. Metric to English conversion always confuses me, just like the Mars rover engineers.