10- The Beatles Album Release .

Media Studies

By Casey Brown

The Beatles The Beatles are one of the biggest bands in the

world and on the 9/9/09, The Beatles' released their studio back catalogue, remastered and available in two lavish CD box sets, The Beatles In Mono and The Beatles Box Set: Remastered In Stereo. The media have gone crazy for it all over the world and if you type their name into any site they will come up. They have their own website and MySpace and have many clips on YouTube. There is a big mood board of pictures of them on their website dating form years back to the present day.

The Beatles They are still going strong and have

appeared on TV and you can listen to interviews with them on the internet. They are also releasing a video game called The Beatles: Rock Band and have lots of memorabilia available such as t shirts, jumpers, hats, boxer shorts ect for the promotion of their new album launch. There have been many news articles on them.

The Beatles The CD they are releasing is digitally re-mastered versions of their

UK studio albums, plus key soundtracks and compilations (Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters Volumes I and II), 14 albums in all (over 16 discs). On the same day, The Beatles: Rock Band computer game hits the stores. The Fab Four can be seen (as they so often still are) gracing the covers of a range of popular magazines, including Mojo, Uncut and Radio Times. The BBC are planning a Beatles week, which features a new documentary including what is described as “never-heard-before fragments of conversation”. The clue there is in the word 'fragments’. These newly mined gems include such witty exchanges as Paul McCartney saying, “Don’t be nervous, John” and his partner replying, “I’m not.” I saw a preview of the much heralded documentary, and confess I enjoyed every minute of it. But what I didn’t see or hear was anything new. Cause there isn’t anything.

With a Little Help from Their Friends, The Beatles’ music and legacy will live on – in the form of a video game.

Apple Corp, Harmonix and MTV Games are having a Twist and Shout about their new partnership which will bring The Beatles music to life in Strawberry Fields Forever – via a video game.  

However, it is yet unknown as to what video game the singers of Hello, Goodbye will appear. The deal certainly paves the way for the Free as a Bird band to appear in Harmonix’s Rock Band.

The games has previously featured the likes of The Who, Bon Jovi and Metalica, and now having the Beatles on board will cement Harmonix’s brand power over rival  Activision’s Guitar Hero whose biggest band to date is Aerosmith.

The partnership marks the first time Across the Universe that Apple Corps, along with EMI Music, Harrisongs Ltd, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing All Together Now have agreed to present The Beatles music in an interactive video game format Eight Days a Week.

Furthermore, this is the first time that the Beatles music has been licensed for release in a digitally-distributed format. The songs that Don’t Ever Change have never before been officially licensed for release online, even through popular services such as iTunes.

Published by MTV Games and developed by Harmonix, the game will A Taste of Honey and an experiential progression and celebration of the music and artistry.

The Beatles For a group who broke up in 1969 insisting there

was nothing left in the cupboard, The Beatles have subsequently released a lot of music, but it has mainly been live recordings, demos and alternative takes. The original Sixties albums are the holy grail, the font of pop culture, when four incredibly talented individuals experienced a kind of collective, accelerated musical growth that untapped all the latent potential of pop.

The Beatles It was a voyage of extraordinary discovery into

melody, harmony, lyricism, rhythm, production and more, a moment when youth culture matured into something philosophically and artistically adult. The Beatles were so accomplished and inquisitive they could make the heaviest metal or the subtlest folk, and invent entirely new forms of psychedelic extravagance. It has been voted their best album. The NME website he featured lots of articles on them. Everything that Brian Epstein (the band's new manger) directed them to do was intended to promote the sale of records.

The new Budweiser ad features a cover of The Beatles song “All Together Now”. The spot, shot from the view of a train passing through Chicago, shows people from the city coming together to spell out the song lyrics (covered by The Hours). They spell out the words “All Together Now” which is used as a tagline for the

campaign.