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This is all you need.

And what the hell does this have to do with Apple or anything Mac? You guys are way over the top lately.

Dave, know ye nothing of the history of Apple, music, and the Beatles?

Please, go find another site.

dave,

Apple Computer is fscking named "Apple" because of Steve Jobs' love of The Beatles, you fscking moron.

Wow. You really can squeeze blood from a stone.

http://www.thebeatles.com/hearlove/audio/1.mp3 ...
... http://www.thebeatles.com/hearlove/audio/26.mp3

Thanks AudioHijack. I can't really imagine paying good money just to get remixes of songs I already own (in some cases multiple times).

I have always, and will always, hate the Beatles.

Wow, "The Beatles" have a website on the internet. Bleeding Cutting Edge Stuff, That.

@ Exasperated: Not so. I heard Woz speak in the 80’s. The name came about because one of the two of them, Jobs i think, was working picking Apples for a while. Jobs thought the Apple was nearly the perfect food, and so wanted to name the company after it.

Theloniusmac:

There are some things it's better to keep to yourself!

And 'Macintosh' came from Job's or someone's favourite apple - of that name.

The actual facts:

1. Jobs named Apple Computer after The Beatles' Apple Records.
2. Jef Raskin named the Macintosh after his favorite Apple, the McIntosh.

Period. End of story. The facts.

Sosumi - The system sound name pointed directly at the Beatles' recording company: "Apple"

The Steve promised The Beatles that HIS Apple would never be involved with audio playinig or recording after they expressed litigious feelings over the name of his company.

M.X.N.T.4.1,

63 kbps = yuck.

Gee theloniusMac, thanks for sharing. That certainly helps me evaluate this news. Or put another way, who do you think gives a rat's a$$ whether you hate the Beatles or not?

MW: "often" as in "I often read usless tripe like your post on the Internet."

FactChecker...

Your sources are at best, apocraphyl.
No one is really sure where the name came from.


"... Because they were going into business, they needed a name for their company. According to Wozniak, it was Jobs who thought up the name for their new computer company one afternoon as the two drove along Highway 85 between Palo Alto and Los Altos.

“Steve was still half involved with a group of friends who ran the commune-type All-One Farm in Oregon. And he would go up and work there for a few months before returning to the Bay Area. He had just come back from one of his trips and we were driving along and he said ‘I’ve got a great name: Apple Computer.’ Maybe he worked in apple trees. I didn’t even ask. Maybe it had some other meaning to him. Maybe the idea just occurred based upon Apple Records. He had been a musical person, like many technical people are. It might have sounded good partly because of that connotation. I thought instantly, ‘We’re going to have a lot of copyright problems.’ But we didn’t. Both of us tried to think of technical-sounding mixtures of words, like Executek and Matrix Electronics, but after 10 minutes of trying, we both realized we weren’t going to beat Apple Computer.”..."

The actual facts:

1. Jobs named Apple Computer after The Beatles' Apple Records.
You are good. Even Steve Wozniak didn't really know how Jobs came up with that "fact":

“Steve was still half involved with a group of friends who ran the commune-type All-One Farm in Oregon. And he would go up and work there for a few months before returning to the Bay Area. He had just come back from one of his trips and we were driving along and he said ‘I’ve got a great name: Apple Computer.’ Maybe he worked in apple trees. I didn’t even ask. Maybe it had some other meaning to him. Maybe the idea just occurred based upon Apple Records. He had been a musical person, like many technical people are. It might have sounded good partly because of that connotation. I thought instantly, ‘We’re going to have a lot of copyright problems.’ But we didn’t. Both of us tried to think of technical-sounding mixtures of words, like Executek and Matrix Electronics, but after 10 minutes of trying, we both realized we weren’t going to beat Apple Computer.”

And the first Apple logo actually was a picture of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an Apple tree.

Oops! Got beat by theloniousMac. That's what I get for hunting for links.

Poppycock:

Apparently a couple of you "... gives a rat's a$$ whether you hate the Beatles or not..." as you posted useless tripe as you say, in response.

To tell the truth, you might be a bit surprised just how many people have cared how much I detest, no loathe in fact, the nonharmonious, discordant clamor that masquarades as music, coming from the so called Beatles.

>I have always, and will always, hate the Beatles.

AMEN!

The only stuff I can stand from them are the cover songs they played during Hamburg days with Stu Sutcliffe, the cool Beatle. Their music was shoved down my throat as a kid and I always cringe when I hear them now.

Screw the Beatles!! They are so dead the only revenue possibility was to sue Apple Computer.

Want some good stuff? Go Led Zeppelin. THAT'S a rock band!!

Again, screw the Beatles!

I never had much time for the beatles either.

Now where's my limited edition Beatles iPod?

And I hate puppies, and little kids, and fresh water, and .. and.. you know I'll think of some more.

And rocks. Stupid rocks! They're all dumb as... rocks! Yaah! Who's with me!?!?

but after 10 minutes of trying, we both realized we weren’t going to beat Apple Computer

So, after all these years, what does that make Microsoft:
Persistent, or just ignorant?

Who cares "Me hate Beatles!"... mmmm "Me like Beatles!" This is about as bad as Reds and Blues condeming each other. Screw everyone's opinion! Go get a life! Ya all sound like Bizarro Supermen.

<i>And I hate puppies, and little kids<i>

Oh I love little kids!

They taste like chicken.

I'm sorry, but if you don't at least APPRECIATE The Beatles, you're not a music fan.

If you're not a fan, you're just not a fan yet.

Unless of course all you listen to is, like, Mudvayne.

We've been playing four tracks from this new album for weeks on our national radio show UnderCurrents. The recordings and re-conceptualizations of the songs are fantastic! Really.

Was it all done on Macs? We'll find out -- but I can say that our 35-hour/week show is produced on three G5 workstations with a couple G4s around the edges.

http://www.undercurrentsradio.net

Gregg McVicar
Host/Producer
Mac Devotee Since 1984

Saying "you've always hated The Beatles" is like saying "Hi, I'm a misanthrope, and I don't like things everyone else likes" -- like those people who won't get iPods because "everyone" has one.

I grew up in the 1960s listening to Beatles music, and it's hard to believe their stuff still sounds so good -- so contemporary -- nearly half a century later. And the mere presense of George Martin doing the remixing is enough to get me interested in buying the album. Just on the internet preview of the album, the sound is so clean and so fresh it's amazing.

Not sure why this is on MDN, but I'm glad it is, because I forgot the album was coming out, and didn't know about the Internet preview. Thanks, MDN!!

Led Zeppelin is great!

If you're still 20 and stoned. I mean really, ya gotta grow outta that crap sometime.

I actually e-mail Woz (seriously!) to ask where the name came from and he wasn't sure. He said it could've been because Jobs had some orchardist friends.

Weird. I had heard that the two Steves wanted a name that suggested utter simplicity...like the child's book, "A is for apple" and couldn't think of anything better.

A. The Beatles finally are entering the online digital music era. Fans get to preview the new "Love" album (a remix of their old hits) online.
B. They seem to be trying to handle this initial foray themselves.
C. The Website and registration process (php script) works, but not smoothly in Safari.
D. The music stream works, but poorly in Safari, with lots of audio dropouts.
E. The Beatles are screwing this up. Too bad. It looks like they could have used Apple's help.
F. This may be a harbinger -- that Apple Computer is about to get screwed in the Beatles lawsuit.

Guys, it's been well documented that Jobs came up with the apple name because he had been working, and possibly in charge of a harvest or something, at the apple orchards.

He's not a beatles fan that I'm aware of. It's robert zemickessitismishes, I mean bob dylan (thomas was dropped when he stole the poet's name), that Jobs is reported to have been a fan of, may still be.

Paul and Ringo just announced that Ballmer is joining the band.

I wanted to see the Cirque du Soleil production, but it's going to be on hiatus while I'm there in early December. Dang...

Welcome to the Soc...

Oh never mind!

How do you add "Film" to an "Album" ?

Ah HA! Notice at 4:44 in the 'LOVE' Electronic Press Kit Interview -- there's a 23" Apple Cinema Display in the studio. We'll be monitoring the trade press for the last word on how it was mixed.

I don't who hates the Beatles, all I know is that I dig a pony, everybody's got something to hide 'cept for me and my monkey and all you need is love.

That and Paul McCartney was sacrificed to Satan as the cost of the band's success. Look for the clues in their album covers (if you can find a store that sells vinyl), play their songs backwards, and you will believe, too. Here's another clue for you all -- the walrus was Paul.

MW: When in New York, don't be a grotesque slimeball and take a picture of the front of the Dakota -- instead, step across Central Park West, go to Strawberry Fields, and say a prayer for peace.

Oh, c'mon Oy. John Bonham was one of the greatest rock and roll drummers of all time, and his son Jason is incredible enough to fill in for his dad AND to play with the Who during their last tours, particularly the Quadrophenia shows. Besides being an astronomical talent, Bonham also died a true rock and roller's death. For that, he should truly be revered and that has a halo effect on the rest of the band.

MW: el-oh-freakin'-el ... Oy, it happens to be twenty. Oy vay! Hehe....

I love the Beatles since I was 17 (31 now), a Mac-head since System 7 days and a daily MDN reader aswell. And I can´t believe how much I like this album. Funniest thing is that I didn't know anything about it until this morning, when I literally ran into it browsing Xtorrent. I will of course buy both the CD and the DVD Audio, as soon it's available, to complete my collection, but it strikes me that this is available as a torrent days before it is officially released, and with good quality too. As for the Beatles site, I gave up trying to see the commercial. That might be because they might not have enough bandwidth due to high demand, though. Surely Apple Computer could've helped with this anyway, hehehe... Right now, I need listening to it once more, just once more!!

Hey, lighten up, I love the Beatles! My point was that there is a lot here of late that while interesting and enjoyable - poking fun at Zune, laughing about Vista - it ain't necessarily Mac-centric. And the legend that Apple Computer is named after Apple Records or the Beatles is just that. Steve Jobs liked Joan Baez a little bit, too, but it ain't Joe Hill Computers.

As for my Beatles creds: their Ed Sullivan appearance to promote the release of Help! was on my 14th birthday in 1965. The next day I was at Shea Stadium with a million other people - mostly mid teen girls who could make more noise than a Shuttle liftoff - trying to get a glimpse. We saw the helicopter, but I cannot say I saw the Beatles themselves, and you couldn't hear a damn thing other than endless shrieking. Still, it's a great memory.

And Steve Ballmer would be a better fit for The Who, don't you think? Pete can throw the guitars, Steve the chairs.

Hate them or love them, it doesn't matter. The music will still be playing after we are all dust.

[the nonharmonious, discordant clamor that masquarades as music]

My personal favorite, but perhaps you don't like the third and fourth 'renditions' of the Beatles. Try the earlier stuff as your friend BB has.

[FWIW, they were Greasers, MopTops, Mods, Hippies]


[Stu Sutcliffe, the cool Beatle.]

That's hilarious! Yeah, he 'looked' cool standing around in those early day photos. The only reason that he was there, was he was John's mate — Stu couldn't bloody play a note.


[Their music was shoved down my throat as a kid and I always cringe when I hear them now.]

Interesting. How were you 'forced' to listen to music?


MDN-MW: 'people'. As in, 'Silly people run around they worry me, And never ask me why they don’t get past my door.'

Apple: the fruit of knowledge?

One of Apple's early logos was a woodcut of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an Apple tree.

http://www.granneman.com/images/apple_original_logo.jpg

Apple? newton? Hmmmmmmmmmm...

On topic:
It's good to see that the Beatles, love 'em or not, are finally going digital. They're a wee bit late, but better than never.

Love' em or hate 'em, they're arguably THE most influential rock/pop group... PERIOD. Let's hope Apple Corps works out their differences with Apple (it's no longer Apple Computer, BTW) and realize that iPod/iTunes on-two punch will make them a whole lot more money that the Zune Squad ever will.

Thanks, M.X.N.T.4.1! I grabbed a few of those files yesterday but when I logged on today to get the rest I gota 4K "mp3" file instead of the full thing. Opening it up in BBEdit (since iTunes won't open it) gives you this message:

"This file no longer exists, stop trying to download this music and buy the album, you naughty chaps.

TheBeatles.com"

Well, at least the limeys have a sense of humor!

MW her - "I saw her standing there," "And I love her," ... I got nuthin else.

Sir George Martin? What happened to Sir Paul?