Posted on 11/15/2010 3:46:31 PM PST by re_tail20
Steve Jobs is nearing the end of his long and winding pursuit of the Beatles catalog.
Apple Inc. is preparing to announce that its iTunes Store will soon start carrying music by the Beatles, according to people familiar with the situation, a move that would fill in a glaring gap in the collection of the world's largest music retailer.
The deal resulted from talks that were taking place as recently as last week among executives of Apple, representatives of the Beatles and their record label, EMI Group Ltd,, according to these people. These people cautioned that Apple could change plans at the last minute.
Spokesmen for Apple, EMI and Paul McCartney declined to comment. Apple on Monday posted a notice on the home page of its iTunes Store that it would make "an exciting announcement" Tuesday morning. The agreement would represent a watershed in a fraught, decades-long relationship between two of the biggest icons in their respective fields. The two sides have traded lawsuits since 1978, when the Beatles alleged that the computer maker, then known as Apple Computer, infringed on the band's trademark. That's because the Beatles in 1968 created a wholly owned entity called Apple Corps Ltd., that acted as an arts-promotion company and owned Apple Records. Though EMI retained ownership of the Beatles recordings, the Apple logo was printed on their albums.
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Perhaps that is what this is all about:
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Although I find it ironic that Apple uses "It's Just Another Day" (A McCartney non-Beatles song) to play in the headline. Especially since Lennon used that title to tweak McCartney in one of his songs after the Beatles broke up:
"Everything you done was yesterday. Since you've gone you're just another day"from "How Do You Sleep?"
Great. I already own every Beatles ever recorded (and most of their solo stuff).
I really liked Macca’s first two solo efforts, “McCartney” and “Ram.” They were experimental, even avant garde in parts, much better than his Wings stuff.
Told ya.... ;)
Me, I ripped my Parlaphone Records of the Beatles—I have the original Blue Box set of British Beatles album releases. It was released back in the mid 70s and last time I saw a value was in the mid 80s for $350 used. My albums have only been played three times. The last time was when I fed them into my mac.
Boy, they carried that weight a long time.
:’) I don’t think McCartney’s evil — even though he threatened to fire anyone working on one of his tours if they ate meat, that just makes him stupid and venal — but he’s not a great lyricist (to put it politely).
who do you consider to be a great lyricist
No argument that Paul was extremely talented. As was John.
Writing on his own, John was often acerbic, edgy, sometimes romantic, occasionally bitter. Straight-up, Lennon was hard to swallow.
Writing on his own, Paul was often saccharine, superficial, sometimes pointless, occasionally brilliant. Straight-up, McCartney required an insulin chaser.
Writing together, they complemented each other perfectly, and produced some of the best music of the 20th century.
“But in this ever changing world in which we live in”
The man is constitutionally incapable of completing a song. If you listen to his stuff for long, you pick up a pattern, that his "songs" are mostly crazy-quilts of ideas, none of which are sufficient to make a song, but string a bunch of them together and it sort of lasts long enough to be called one.
The wonderful epic medley on the backside of Abbey Road was a precursor. "Band On the Run" is a good example of the quilt effect. The only reason the "McCartney" tunes of the Beatles' repertoire worked, was that John helped Paul write the middle-eight of most of them, and helped him close the ones that didn't fade out.
In fairness, Paul helped John as well, and in similar ways. Their differences made for a marvelous collaboration.
(BTW, for a good example of how to blend different themes into a coherent whole, consider Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused".)
Mind you, I'm a true-blue Beatles fan from 1964 to the present, and I consider them to be the greatest rock/pop band in history by a considerable margin.
What made Lennon and McCartney work was that both were good filters of the other’s crap.
I thought for awhile Macca hit on something when was doing some writing with Elvis Costello, I think that partnership really could have worked.
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Indeed. Good observation.
> I thought for awhile Macca hit on something when was doing some writing with Elvis Costello, I think that partnership really could have worked.
Costello is great, and has some of Lennon's incisive, acidic stylistic capability. With a touch less bitterness, and a more polished presentation.
Thanks dayglored.
There better be more to the announcement than the Beatles.
Senior citizens who remember the Beetles are already lining up in front of the iTunes store downtown.
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