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Beatles reunited online as Harrison goes digital
10/10/2007 11:00 AM, Reuters
Dean Goodman
Nine albums from the late George
Harrison have been made available online through retailers such
as Apple's iTunes, record label Parlophone said on Wednesday,
as the fourth and final member of the Beatles finally went
digital.
As a group, the Beatles have been among the highest-profile
holdouts to putting music online but a recent settlement to a
lengthy trademark dispute between Apple and the Beatles'
company, Apple Corps Ltd, is seen as finally clearing the way.
Parlophone, part of the EMI music group, said nine albums
including "All Things Must Pass," were now available from all
digital service providers and said more would follow online in
the new year.
The announcement means that the solo catalogues of all four
Beatles are now available digitally.
"It is exciting that George's catalogue is finally
available for downloading," Harrison's widow Olivia said in a
statement.
"He had begun the digital remastering of his albums but had
no idea how the digital world would change the way we access
and listen to music."
Olivia Harrison told Reuters in an interview in June that
she hoped the Beatles' music would be put online by 2008, and
Paul McCartney told trade publication Billboard earlier this
year that an online deal for the group's catalogue was
"virtually settled."
But he shied away from saying anything would happen in the
short term. Harrison died in 2001.
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