Beatles Won't Just Be On iTunes When Released Online

Fox News (of all...) has spoken to Neil Aspinall, the man charged with caring for The Beatles legacy (and mountain of money making potential), about when and how we’ll be seeing the legendary bands music come to the world of digital distribution.

After Apple Corps settled with Apple Computer over copyright skullduggery it has been widely assumed that iTunes will be seeing The Beatles collection sold on its store. That’s true, but Aspinall - who has been quite crafty in how he has maintained the bands legacy, it must be said - also wants the back catalogue of potentially huge sellers to see the light of day on other online music services as well.

According to Fox the 13 core albums released to CD in 1987 have all been remastered for online distribution, and we’re expecting their simultaneous release any day now. Interestingly with the change in rules about how the Top Singles Chart is compiled in the UK, allowing for songs of any age to be counted, some are hypothesising that we could see The Beatles dominate the Top 10 with multiple songs when they are released online.

One thing we won’t be seeing getting a new release will be the 1970 film "Let it Be", which was concerned with the recording of the song of the same name ; and, in the end, wound up showing much of the internal division and strife which eventually led to the breakup of The Beatles.

Some history is just too hard to bear, apparently...