Tag: the beatles
Fab-Four back-catalogue available on The Beatles Stereo USB Apple
Forget i-Tunes, fruit-shaped USB is the real future of digital music.
Beatles on iTunes – are you really that bothered?
I am guessing that anyone who has an iPod probably likes music and viz a viz probably has at least a few of The Beatles albums in their collection on CD. Ok, so iTunes might be good for grabbing a few of the good tracks from the weaker albums like Beatles for Sale, but really is this big event – don't think so.
Get your record cut at Abbey Road
Fancy having your music mastered at the famous Abbey Road studios? Not very likely unless you make it big-time. Well, not very likely until now that is.
The legendary studio is launching an online mastering service this month where musicians and producers can send their tacks to be mastered by Abbey Road’s top engineers using the world famous equipment such as the original EMI TG mastering consoles with the SADiE 5 PCM8 digital audio workstation.
Users can upload up to 2GB of audio onto a dedicated server in uncompressed WAV or AIFF format and sit back and wait whilst the experts do their thing. Within five working days users will receive an email with a download link. The link will stay live for a month and the mastered tracks will be in WAV, DDP image file or an audio PMCD. Vinyl will be provided in the format requested – either 7-inch, 12-inch or LP album. Additional copies can also be produced on CD or vinyl.
The cost is on a track by track basis (£90 per track) with a fixed price for vinyl masters depending on the format.
If you fancy giving the service a try go direct to the Abbey Road Studios online mastering service. Your band may not be as good as The Beatles but at least you can get your music mastered at the same place that they did.
Virtual Jimi Hendrix in Guitar Hero: World Tour
Well Rock Band 2 may have AC/DC, Dylan and Motorhead but Activision has just announced an exclusive deal on Guitar Hero 4 for none other than the guitar genius that is Jimi Hendrix.
Yes, Guitar Hero: World Tour will feature not only feature both The Wind Cries Mary and a live version of Puple Haze but there’ll even be a virtual Jimi…
Beatles tracks might make it into their own version of Guitar Hero
According to one news outlet Martin N. Bandier, the chairman and chief executive at Sony/ATV Music Publishing which owns the John Lennon- Paul McCartney copyrights, has expressed interest in a dedicated Beatles version of Activision’s Guitar Hero.
Opinion: Please, please me and put The Beatles on iTunes!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… Help, I need somebody, help, not just anybody, help, you know I need someone… who can blooming well tell me if we are ever going to be able to buy Beatles songs on the interweb.
I’m not one of those nuts who says they’re the greatest band in the world, but I can understand why it’s so important to have their tunes in digital form. After all, there’s millions of people out there who’d listen to the Liverpool Fab Four eight days a week if they could…
Michael Jackson's company squashes rumours regarding the Beatles' availability on iTunes
Michael Jackson, aka, the world’s biggest spoil-sport, has apparently put his foot down over The Beatles’ music being made available on iTunes in the future, with a spokeswoman for Sony/AVT Music Publishing (the company that co-owns the publishing rights with Jackson) claiming yesterday’s rumours are “untrue”, reinforced by an Apple representative stating “this is not news nor is it a scoop”.
Claims regarding the payment Apple would shell out for the privilege of selling the British band’s tracks is in the region of $600 million, with speculators…
British scientists want your Beatles-related memories for their Magical Memory Tour website/experiment
Those crazy British psychologists! Several University of Leeds peers have embarked on what they’ve dubbed ‘the Magical Memory Tour’, to discover what the general population’s first memories are when they think about the Beatles. LSD-soaked memories not sought, sorry.
The project consists of a massive online database of memories, which will be presented at a festival in Liverpool come September. It’s not simply an outlet for old hippies to reminisce about the first time they heard I Am The Walrus whilst on acid, as according to the two psychologists, the survey will help scientists…
Digital music gets futuristic, with NASA beaming The Beatles across the galaxy today
As your eyes just fed into your brain, NASA is spending the US taxpayer’s money wisely, by sending the Beatles’ music into space! Little do those extraterrestrials know that they disbanded years back, and Macca is now singing about vintage clothes and Starbucks.
Apparently today is the first annual international day dedicated to gushing about which Beatle was your fave, and where you’re actually allowed to keep their greatest hits on a loop all day in the office without any of the usual repercussions. You can’t argue with an international day to celebrate the Beatles, on the day they recorded their song ‘Across the Universe’ 40 years previously.
At several times throughout today, NASA will be beaming the song into the sky from a satellite antenna, in the hopes…
Prince, Maroon 5, Pink, Simply Red and New Order follow The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Apple iPod collaboration!
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Well, if I were ‘in’ with Steve Jobs and his cronies, that’d be the case, anyway!
My more-than-slightly-dodgy Photoshop of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine iPod last week caused such a furore over the internets, with plenty of sites not only linking to our story, but also pinching the mock-up I created. It got to the point where when Gizmodo linked to us and originally included my ‘mad Photoshop skillzorz’, several readers complained about the quality of the pic, and their Photoshop da Vinci, Jesus Diaz, had to hurriedly create a new one to sate the Apple fanboys’ appetite. I can just imagine the horrified looks on their faces as they realised someone had desecrated their beloved Jesus ‘pod without actually having a graphic design degree. Gasp!
So I thought I’d throw a bit more bleach on your eyes with some more band-themed iPods Apple really should create. Stuff the Beatles’ whole catalogue, who wants…Simply Red’s? Apart from moi?…
