World Premiere of The Beatles for Rock Band

[moxham123]

World Premiere of The Beatles for Rock Band

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Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison Come Together for World Premiere of "The Beatles: Rock Band"

"All You Need Is Love" To Be Released Exclusively as Downloadable Song Through Xbox LIVE on 9/9/09 with Charity Proceeds to Benefit Doctors Without Borders

Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison came to the E3 conference in Los Angeles on Monday for the world premiere of The Beatles: Rock Band. The game was revealed at Microsoft's E3 press conference, and represents the first time fans will be able to experience The Beatles' musical career for themselves.

The game begins during the band's earliest days at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. Gamers will then travel across the Atlantic to experience the band's unforgettable 1964 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, the sold-out concert at New York's Shea Stadium in 1965, and conclude at The Beatles' memorable concert at Budokan in Tokyo, Japan in 1966. The Beatles' studio years will come to life in legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios. Highlighting the studio years are inspired artistic visual expressions known as Dreamscapes, intended to transport players to imaginative environments that capture the essence of The Beatles' genre-busting musical and fashion transformations during their later years. The game follows The Beatles to 1969 where story mode culminates with their final performance on the rooftop of the Apple Corps Headquarters.

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It was also announced today that "All You Need Is Love," will be released exclusively on Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft as a downloadable song for The Beatles: Rock Band through Xbox LIVE on September 9, 2009 with all Apple Corps Ltd, MTV Games and Microsoft proceeds benefitting Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, personally selected the international emergency medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971 as the beneficiary of the proceeds from the sales of "All You Need Is Love" for The Beatles: Rock Band. Doctors Without Borders provides aid in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation.

The Beatles: Rock Band will offer a new set of hardware replicas representing the instruments made famous by John, Paul, George and Ringo. Featured in the set are the Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet guitars -hailed as two of the celebrated, signature instruments played by John Lennon and George Harrison throughout their careers. Also included is a Hofner bass controller - a large-scale replica of the bass famously used by Sir Paul McCartney. Rounding out the set is a Ringo Starr inspired, Ludwig - branded Rock Band 2 drum set with a classic pearl finish and vintage replica Beatles kick drum head.

[bassist_25]

Will a certain white as a ghost pop singer who dangles children over balconies and has questionable tastes in the age of his romantic partners be profitting off of the song licensing of this product?

[nickisrb]

Will a certain white as a ghost pop singer who dangles children over balconies and has questionable tastes in the age of his romantic partners be profitting off of the song licensing of this product?

Haha, sadly yes.

Sweet guitars though.

[bassist_25]

Will a certain white as a ghost pop singer who dangles children over balconies and has questionable tastes in the age of his romantic partners be profitting off of the song licensing of this product?

Haha, sadly yes.

Damn the man! Albeit, quite an effeminate man, but a man to damn, nonetheless!

[moxham123]

I do not know how up to date this information is but I have heard rumor that Sir Paul McCartney was trying to buy these back. Michael Jackson and Sony share ownership somehow.

Michael Jackson acquired the Beatles song catalog in 1985 for $47.5 million, outbidding ex-Beatles singer/bassist Paul McCartney. Jackson then sold a piece of his stake to Sony a decade later, creating a joint venture called Sony/ATV Music Publishing. The venture is now believed to be worth more than $400 million.

Song catalogs have become hugely lucrative in the last two decades due to the compact disc boom, rising sales of Internet downloads, and movie studios and advertisers willing to pay royalties to use hit songs in film scores and commercials.

Jackson, through Sony/ATV, owns all but a small selection of the Fab Four's compositions, including megahits like "Yesterday," "Let It Be," and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." He does not, however, own the actual sound recordings; those rights are held by EMI's Capitol Records.

[slackin@dabass]

fuck jacko wacko. and fuck anyone that looks like him.


it's bullshit he bought that catalog out from under paul. how could any musician steal the rights of a friend's music. that's low beyond low. i don't know how jackson can look at himself in the mirror... but of course, i don't think he does. he breaks mirrors. that guy could be in a freak show. his face looks like it's made from the same stuff they wrap cheap Chinese drum sets with.


but that's just my opinion

[Banned]

Didn't McCartney buy back a huge portion of the music a while ago?

[slackin@dabass]

Didn't McCartney buy back a huge portion of the music a while ago?

i 'unno i just like to rip on MJ