Katie MarsalThe widow of Fab Four guitarist George Harrison has revealed that the music group's catalog should be available by next year.
"We just have a few things to work out elsewhere," she said.
Though hopeful for a release before the end of 2007, she added that the sheer amount of work might push the online listing to 2008.
The Beatles' music label, Apple Corps, had not only to settle its naming dispute with iTunes operator Apple Inc. but to finish the Cirque du Soleil show Love, remaster the original recordings for better quality, and create a deluxe presentation to revitalize interest.
"That's a big job," Harrison said. "That means you have to go back through all the archives and find great photographs and really give a nice package to the fans."
The retirement of the pioneering Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall was also said to have contributed to the acceleration of the project, as new label head Jeff Jones intended to "pick up the pace" on transferring Beatles albums to the online medium.
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2008.. these Beatles can go shove it as far as I'm concerned. They obviously don't realise they are encouraging piracy of their music. Now get George Harrison on iTunes pronto! Ok so I commented without restraint, and didn't read the article, but you can only take some much of these Beatles stories.
Just put the damn music on already! The Beatles appear to be taking themselves entirely too serious. While they are pop icon legends, their hardly relevant these days. I'm not discounting their impressive body of work, but they ought to be grateful someone still cares.
Are they trying to release it in one batch? That seems unecessary unless they are trying to make it a bargain bundle like they did with U2 and a few others.
Though hopeful for a release before the end of 2007, she added that the sheer amount of work might push the online listing to 2008.
"That's a big job," Harrison said. "That means you have to go back through all the archives and find great photographs and really give a nice package to the fans."
The brain-aching irony here is that the Beatles managed to release SIX ALBUMS in one year (1966).
Just put the damn music on already! The Beatles appear to be taking themselves entirely too serious. While they are pop icon legends, their hardly relevant these days. I'm not discounting their impressive body of work, but they ought to be grateful someone still cares.
I think some people are forgetting that:
a) Two of the Beatles have passed, and therefore they can no longer 'tak[e] themselves entirely too seriously,' or slow down the progress of the digital distribution of their music, and
b) They are still completely relevant to the landscape of today's music. They made music what it is today, and if we forget about them, and others like them, we will have a music dead space like that of the 90's. I for one wish music would move back towards that Beatlesque style; a large portion of mainstream music is entirely talentless. And lastly,
c) We ought to be grateful that they made their music.
Long live Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and God rest John Lennon, and George Harrison's souls.