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McCartney Says Beatles Coming to iTunes Finally

by Terrence O'Brien on November 16, 2007 at 05:05 PM

At last, The Beatles Coming to iTunesSir Paul McCartney himself is now saying that the Beatles's catalog will be coming online (meaning, we hope, iTunes) "soon." McCartney told Billboard.com that, "it's down to fine-tuning, but I'm pretty sure it'll be happening next year, 2008." All of the members of the Beatles' s solo work is now available on iTunes, but so far the Fab Four's collective works have been missing.

Rumors about the impending availability of Beatles albums on iTunes have been circulating for years. In fact, Steve Jobs has made it a point of taunting us by playing Beatles tracks at nearly every Apple event over the past year. He also seems to like having the band's songs loaded onto iPods used in demos at those same events.

Not too long ago, Olivia Harrison, the widow of George Harrison, told the media that the Beatles digital distribution deal was just about finalized. McCartney is just further confirming the inevitable.

The Beatles would be just the latest in a line of long-time hold outs to cave to the iTunes and online music download monster. AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones all have joined the digital download party in the last year, though Led Zeppelin launched in an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless's music store first.

The real question we have, however, is how many people will come to iTunes to download The Beatles' albums? We at Switched figure that most, if not all, Beatles fans already own the Beatles's CDs and have ripped them to their iTunes libraries and iPods. Are we wrong here?

Gallery Of iTunes Holdouts



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Tags: apple, beatles, george harrison, GeorgeHarrison, itunes, john lennon, JohnLennon, paul mccartney, PaulMccartney

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