“The cover of the October, 2008 issue of Mojo Magazine, now on newsstands, features an interview with Paul McCartney, and next to his picture it says, ‘My White Album Plus! The Beatles Remastered.’ The article reveals that Mojo was invited to a playback of ten White Album tracks, and their verdict is ‘Better even than we’d hoped,'” What Goes On reports.
“The Mojo article also says that all the Beatles albums, including Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour and the Past Masters albums, have been remastered, but not The Hollywood Bowl. Two albums, Rubber Soul and Revolver, will be available in three mixes, mono, original stereo and the 1987 stereo rebalances. No 5.1 mixes are planned for any of the albums,” What Goes On reports.
“According to Mojo, the expected release date for remastered Beatles albums is, off the record, sometime in 2009, and that Apple would rather get it right than try to cash in on Christmas sales,” What Goes On reports.
Full article here.
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toooo little totoooooo late
Aren’t they speaking about “Apple Records” and not “Apple Inc”?
@Viktor
Exactly.
..Apple reinvents the album…
Agreed, way too little way too late. Maybe they can sell us another boxed set of re-re-remastered Star Wars movies too.
The Beatles (as a group) have been gone almost as long as the Studebaker.
The Stude-who? You get the idea.
I and any Beatles fans already have the Beatles in iTunes and on our devices.
Why does the press keep trotting this out near any Apple event?
Who really cares about this?
And on a related note, the “Acme Buggy Whip Company” has decided to release the remastered photo of their storefront on the day they closed shop.
I’d say that 90% of anybody who really wanted the Beatles has already found a way to get them. They screwed themselves out of millions. Maybe they were getting advice from RIAA?
@nekogami13:
The availability of Beatles music at the iTunes Store will help to introduce the Beatles to a new generation to music lovers, many of whom do not own any Beatles CD’s and may know very little about the Beatles’ music. Seeing “Across the Universe” does not qualify as a proper introduction to one of the most gifted musical groups of all time.
Good point alansky!
They better be good. On the bootleg side, Dr. Ebbets remasters are light years of anything Apple has put out. One would think they should be at least that good…
Sell it to Kwame. Wait, that asswipe is in jail.
Sell it to Kwame. Wait, that asswipe is in jail.
Nice for fans of the Beattles.
Otherwise meaningless.
Who Cares? If you are a fan…I suspect you ALREADY have them and if you aren’t a fan I suspect you never will be. Besides I bet half those under the age of 30 don’t know who they ARE!!
If it’s DRM free they may have something.
If not, they may be surprised by the backlash it will generate.
Yeah, I’ve hauled my ass to Macworld too many times already in hopes of a Beatle sighting at a Keynote.
They waited WAAAAY too long!
Everybody who enjoyed the Beetles is starting to die off. All to say, nobody cares what Apple Corps does with the Beetles because Apple Corps pulled a Butthead Astronomer (look it up) when they sued Apple Computer when the Steves names Apple Computer in honor of the Beetles and Apple Corp.
I care about Beatles as much as I care about last year’s snow.
Enough of those Beatles already.
Haven’t they made enough money? Isn’t it time to give it all away for free?
The only benefit of having the Beatles catalog would be to expose the music to younger people and make some sales there.
Those of us who were born before they broke up probably bought the CDs when they (finally) came out. That took forever, too.
I certainly wouldn’t buy any Beatles songs from iTunes – I have them already.
So many false starts, and now we hear of a 2009 release!? What’s the point of this? Yes, the music is brilliant, but won’t their (Apple’s and the Beetles’ estate) greed backfire to where people will avoid this en masse?
Unless, perhaps if they come up with a pre-installed iPod with a yellow submarine motif. That may have a sort of retro coolness about it.
As an older baby-boomer, I think that it’s likely that a pre-loaded iPod Touch with some decent Beatles videos would sell well in the $500 range…
Who cares about The Beatles at this point.
My ten-year-old daughter had her birthday party a few weeks ago. The girls wanted to karaoke so they were thinking of groups and songs they could sing to. One of the girls insisted a play The Beatles for them because they were her favorite group.
More people than you might imagine care about The Beatles.