“The years-long negotiations to secure The Beatles catalog for sale on the iTunes Store are still in a holding pattern,” Chris Foresman reports for Ars Technica.
“In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog, Sir Paul McCartney… [was asked when] The Beatles would finally appear on iTunes, McCartney said that negotiations are still a sticky issue,'” Foresman reports.
“‘We want it to happen,’ said McCartney. And by ‘we,’ I’m assuming he means himself, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison,” Foresman reports. “But, said McCartney, ‘The record company was taken over by new people quite recently, so there is a gridlock of sorts.'”
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