“Today will mark an auspicious day for the music business, and maybe the first big hint that the Beatles may finally be on the way to Apple’s iTunes,” Jim Goldman reports for CNBC.
“That’s a big leap of faith but hear me out: The Beatles’ label Apple Corps will join MTV for a splashy, London-based news announcement to unveil plans to bring the Beatles’ catalogue to the wildly popular Rock Band video game,” Goldman reports. “These two groups have been trying to hammer out details for months, and it appears they’ve finally come together (yes, pun intended.)”
“The reason this is so much bigger than merely MTV scoring the world’s most valuable music catalogue is that it signals a monumental shift by Apple Corps to begin to embrace digital distribution,” Goldman reports. “And that could mean a new opening for more discussions with Apple Inc. and its iTunes music service, since the Beatles are still so conspicuously absent from the world’s most popular music store.”
Goldman reports, “The Beatles going Rock Band shows a new flexibility by Apple Corps to exploit new technology. That has to be good for a potential deal with iTunes as well.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “88mph” for the heads up.]
I like em’
Who are the Beetles?
Beetles?
Yeah they have some okay songs.
I like Metallica much, much more.
Seek and Destroy- biach!
Who would I put above the Beatles?
From just on top of my head, I would place:
1. Chuck Berry.
2. Buddy Guy.
3. Miles Davis.
4. Robert Johnson.
5. Buddy Holly.
6. Pink Floyd.
7. James Brown.
8. Elvis (suspicious mind)
Personal preferences on par with (if not better at times) the Beatles:
1. The Rolling Stones (just the fact they were not produced a la George Martin is good enough to many ears, they sound the same on a garage as on a packed arena – ruffled and edgy.)
2. The Kinks.
3. Sonic Youth.
4. Led Zepp.
5. The Who.
6. The Cream.
7. Peter Green.
8. The Clash.
9. Otis Redding and the Booker T.
10. Dylan.
Bonus: The Beach Boys.
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“The Beatles stopped being significant about 1970.”
I really don’t care if their music is available online or not, but the music is certainly still significant. It’s the songwriting, Stupid.
Seriously I like the Beatles (no where near what I used to) but the older I get the more I see them as they are now: An over hyped band that the aging hippies still cling to. They were great in their time, now, meh. —Dude
Speak for yourself, brother! Do you actually listen to the garbage that passes for pop music nowadays? If this is what you like, no wonder you can’t appreciate the Beatles!
Limewire already won
@krquet
What? No Sonics or Velvet Underground?
Sheesh. Will this rumor ever die?
Repeat: the Beatles albums has never been released (though songs on compilations have, and the difference is amazing) in a remastered format-those pirated versions you’re getting still sound like they did in 1968 (maybe a good thing to some I guess)! Granted, whenever this stuff is released, bit torrent may win again . . . ;o)
I hear that Elvis was recently seen at the iTunes recording studio.
@poo
If meant Sonic Youth, they are on my list if you look closely. Velvet underground is more influential than great with their relatively small catelog. I’d concede thAt I shouldve added Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Boss on the list. For all his contribution to many aspects of modern day musicians, in MY subjective book, I’d give an honourable holler to Mr. Steve Jobs. Take a bow Steve.
Huh, MDN MW: book
krquet…
I meant the Sonics; absolutely the best garage band ever. And I truly believe that V.U. was the best bar none. Small catalogue means nothing to me; they were incredibly influential (Sonic Youth wouldn’t exist without them).
I remember quotes over the past two years (as each of the Beatle members started releasing their solo songs on itunes) where people associated with the Beatles basicall admitted that they will be on iTunes eventually. There’s some sort of agreement or understanding that it will happen. The hang-up right now is that they’re in the process of remastering everything.
Also, as an aside, I find it amusing that if I click on a Beatles song in my itunes library, the “Genius” acts like it’s never heard of the group, has no clue what other bands might be similar etc.
Shame on those who dismiss the Beatles. They are the greatest musical group of all time.
They also are/were among the biggest egomaniac PRICKS of all time.
They’d truly be great, if their own self-worth hadn’t ruined it all.
can thank the Beatles for some of their success. And I think you meant ‘Seek and Destroy’ BIATCH! I prefer ‘The Thing that Should Not Be’ my own self.
Check out Beatallica for classics like, The Thing That Should Not Let It Be, Hey Dude, Everybody’s Got a Ticket to Ride Except For Me and My Lightning, Sgt Hetfield’s Motorbreath Pub Band, Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice, and many more!
I’m 100% serious.
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The Beatles took the biggest influences of their early years, made the product better, and then influenced all music to come during and after them.
If you didn’t actually live to see this happen, you will never understand the magnitude of the change. When you listen to music beyond The Beatles time of course it doesn’t sound that different, that’s because they influenced the sound of the very music you are comparing them to.
You had to be there in the early 1960’s, if you were, when you first heard them, you just said “Whoa, this is DIFFERENT” sounded nothing like the rest that was out there back then. Anyone born after that era will never understand the impact of what we heard for the first time, and The Beatles didn’t play it safe, they kept reinventing themselves and their styles. Those younger have only the ability to compare music after the clones came and new bands branched out into heavier, weirder, and screamier stuff. But it all began back in Liverpool.
I am so thankful I was there for it all.
The Beatles AND Steve & Woz—all in my life time….too much! What an era of originality and creativity. A privilege to witness it all.
To those asking me- I’m not hating on the Beatles, I just don’t agree they are the greatest band ever.
For that, repeat until it sinks in: “Power, Mystery and the Hammer of the Gods”. Yes, that’s right the best band ever Led Zepplin.
Clapton is god, as far as I’m concerned he can’t even hold Page’s jock-strap and that goes twice for the the mega-overrated Hendrix.