Do you want to know a secret? Well, in fact, it isn’t a secret at all – it’s a Revolution. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, BIG NEWS across the universe: the full Beatles catalog of music is now available for download on iTunes, just in time for Christmas shopping season. Here comes the sun!
Though Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. certainly can’t buy me love, it seems they can buy the right to sell anything they please (please me.) The now-infamous legal battle between Apple Corps, the Beatles’ record label, and Apple Inc raged on for years with too much monkey business over the “Apple” trademark. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite, (Mr. Kite, of course, being Mr. Jobs in this case) the dispute was settled with a little help from my friends. Okay, actually, the court decided that Apple Inc is perfectly entitled to sell any prerecorded content as long as they’re not distributing it as their own yellow submarine.
Apple Inc has originally signed an agreement stating they would not enter the music distribution business with the Apple name and logo. Apple Corps maintains that they violated this agreement by opening the iTunes store, cried “Don’t let me down!” and originally filed a case against Apple Inc in 2003. But after all the helter skelter, the only happiness Apple Corps can hope for is a warm gun. Oh, Darling!
In the end, Apple Corps had to let it be and allow Apple Inc to come together to release every little thing the Beatles released. While my guitar gently weeps for the record label, it certainly is Johnny B. Goode to have remastered, high quality versions of Beatles’ classics from one, all-inclusive source. If I fell in the love with the Beatles way back when I saw her standing there, these new releases just give me another reason to shout “Hey Jude!”
For more information on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, go in through the bathroom window.
To recall A Day in the Life of the early Beatles’ recordings, check out the Quarrymen presented by Lost Gold Records. Alternately, you can Meat Dbeatles like you never have before!
Until next time, I am the walrus.
Alisa Hathaway
November 2010
2 comments:
Wow, that was great, you've a ticket to ride
Meat dbealtles is Fantastic!
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