The Beatles heading to iTunes says Yoko Ono

Sky news publishes story ahead of schedule?

The Beatles heading to iTunes says Yoko Ono. Audio, iPod, Apple, Beatles, iTunes 0

8 September 2009 21:36 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Believe what you will, but when a major news organisation publishes then removes a story there is some cause for it to make headlines.

According to titbits scraped from an uncached and unseen story, Sky News in the UK is claiming that

"The whole of the Beatles back catalogue will be made available to buy on iTunes."

It's source: Yoko Ono

All that is left of the story on the news.sky.com website is the url giving hints to Yoko Ono's comments:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Beatles-On-iTunes-Yoko-Ono-Says-Fab-Fours-Back-Catalogue-To-Be-Made-Available-On-Apples-Web-Store/Article/200909215377504?
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According to Sky, the wife of John Lennon has let the cat out of the bag a day early no doubt causing headaches all round for EMI, Apple and well anyone else that fancies being concerned.

Google news only managed to cache the intro paragraph rather than the whole story.

The Beatles back catalogue is being re-released on Wednesday (09.09.09) with an ultimate box set of all the albums costing around £200. The news also coincides with the launch of Rock Band: The Beatles on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

The news comes after Pocket-lint broke a leak of new cases appearing in Best Buy's online store for a 3rd generation iPod touch.

However many commentators still don't believe that Apple will detail the availability of The Beatles catalogue on the music download store after it used Rolling Stone song lyrics on the invite sent out to journalists at the beginning of September.

Pocket-lint will be bringing you all the news as it happens from the event starting around 6pm GMT on Wednesday.

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Comments

  • Why would you take this story from 9to5mac without a link? Posted by Jonny, UK
  • Thanks for your comments. At the time of writting we hadn't seen the story published by 9to5mac. We became aware of the story around the same time, it seems, looking into it further following the apperance of the Sky News headline on Google and some Twitter chatter pointing to the Sky News page. You might want to ask why 9to5mac aren't crediting Pocket-lint for the Best Buy story they are currently running, but I presume that is for similar reasons to us. And before you ask no it's not a tit for tat reason. Hope that answers your question.

    Stuart
     Posted by stuartmiles, United Kingdom
  • You may want to update this story. CNet has debunked it. Apparently the news story mysteriously vanished from Sky shortly after being posted.

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10347238-93.html     Posted by Robotech_Master, USA
  • Just because CNet has pointed out the obvious doesn't mean the story has been debunked. Believe me, if Sandoval actually had sources "familiar with the negotiations between Apple and EMI", he would've been screaming it from the rooftops before now.

    More likely his "sources" are out of the loop.     Posted by Deus_Ex_Technica, USA

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