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Apple to Remaster Beatles Catalogue and Offer Everything on iTunes

Submitted by B_Werner

Edited by s5

It is good to see Apple ready to make obscure music available again. Due to the infrequency of Beatles remasters and reissues, and the difficulty with which a lot of music fans struggle to get mp3 versions of their favorite Beatles material, it looks as if Apple is getting ready to remaster the entire Beatles catalogue and make it available via the iTunes Music Store.

Apple Corps, the label that the Beatles released all of their material on, is in a court battle with Apple Computers over the use of the ever popular fruit as a logo. Label boss Neil Aspinall revealed the Beatles plans right in the courtroom:

We're remastering the whole Beatles catalog, just to make it sound brighter and better and getting proper booklets to go with each of the packages. I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters. It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc



As he suggests, all of the remasters will include an accompanying digital booklet. No word on when this project will be complete and available for mass consumption.

Thanks to Low_Culture for the link.

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zenFish

zenFish

Vancouver, BC
August 2004

APR 14, 2006 10:20 AM

or how much will it cost...

B_Werner

B_Werner

Philadelphia, PA
February 2006

APR 14, 2006 10:23 AM

I would assume that it will be the same price as the rest of the I-Tunes music store items. Isn't it 99 cents per song, and 9.99 per album? But, who knows.

zenFish

zenFish

Vancouver, BC
August 2004

APR 14, 2006 10:31 AM

B_Werner said:
I would assume that it will be the same price as the rest of the I-Tunes music store items. Isn't it 99 cents per song, and 9.99 per album? But, who knows.



with them currently suing apple, i have a feeling they will "settle" via the cost for the iTunes price.

i see this as just a little well TOO timed to be a coincidence.

William_Miller

William_Miller

South Berwick, ME
January 2005

APR 14, 2006 02:35 PM

B_Werner said:
Apple Corps, the label that the Beatles released all of their material on



Actually, wasn't Apple Corp brought into play midway through their career as a band? It's where all their masters went when the band initially got the rights to them back, I know that much, and that's why everything since then has recieved the Apple Corp label. But I think they were signed to Capitol prior to anything.

Cassiel

Cassiel

Aurora, CO
September 2004

APR 14, 2006 02:53 PM

B_Werner said:
I would assume that it will be the same price as the rest of the I-Tunes music store items. Isn't it 99 cents per song, and 9.99 per album? But, who knows.



well, the U2 digital box set/complete catalogue cost $150, and ran close to 500 songs, so I imagine it'll be a similiar situation

CaptainAmerika

CaptainAmerika

Washington, DC
July 2005

APR 14, 2006 07:51 PM

They were on Capitol up thru Magical Mystery Tour, in '67.

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