“Sir Paul McCartney is to release the Beatles back catalogue online – helping pay for his multi-million-pound divorce from Heather Mills,” Robert Mendick and Jonathan Prynn report for The Evening Standard.
“The singles and albums will be made available on iTunes in the coming months following the final divorce hearing, due to take place at the High Court in 10 days,” Mendick and Prynn report.
“Containing albums such as Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album and Help!, it will be by far the most prized music catalogue released via the internet, worth up to £200 million, according to some estimates. It is expected to dominate the download charts for many months,” Mendick and Prynn report.
“The catalogue’s online release has been hampered by legal wrangles that have now been settled. The divorce is thought to be the final obstacle,” Mendick and Prynn report.
Full article here.
I´ve heard from a source that Duke Nukem Forever for mac appears on the same day.
I want FZ on itunes.
Yawn. How many years have we been hearing this one for?
We may have ripped our beatles cd’s and have them on our ipods, but I’m looking for re-mastered versions, if they release them I’ll buy them ALL again…beatles tunes as they stand are music in one ear vocals in the other (for the early stuff), it’s awful to listen to on an ipod, so bring it the re-mastered goodness!
Once the settlement figure is decided, I wonder what it will work out to per lay? She must have been his most expensive piece of @$$ he’s ever had.
At those prices, he had better of been railing that – hard and often!
And in other news, the G5 PowerBooks are rumored to appear soon.
Seriously though, it’s about time to get the Beatles online.
@PzKpfW
He could just sell hampshire and pay for it with the proceeds.
If you are going to steal from the dead, at least give them credit!
That line is from Douglas Adams (who was a famous Mac user to boot!) from one of the 5 volumes of the Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy trilogy. From Life, The Universe, and Everything, if I remember correctly.
The whole point is that these are going to be remastered versions of the albums. They didn’t do any remastering for the CD versions. If you can still listen to vinyl, good on you, but if you want to hear it digitally at its best, these new versions will be the first time you can.
“I want FZ on itunes.”
I didn’t know Frank Zappa wasn’t on it.
I know WAR isn’t.
I had to get “Gypsy Man” off of Amazon.
Already have all of them, English and spanish versions, including most of the studio cuts. Would like to see them there just to have this mess resolved so that we can move on, but it won;t affect me other than as a shareholder.
Capitol has released everything from “The “Early Beatles” (formerly known as “Introducing the Beatles” their very first album) through “Rubber Soul.”
So all I need is everything after that, because those Red and Blue collection CD do not have all the songs from all the albums. Just what some exec thought you should have. I want exact matches to all my scratched albums damn it.