Rock Band Licenses The Beatles

eldavojohn writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that MTV's Rock Band has gained the licenses to an undetermined number of songs. Details are scant, but it would be nice to see a whole game based on just the evolution of The Beatles' music. According to Reuters, this has been in the works for months. Hopefully I can finally hide my strained vocals to so many beautiful songs within the privacy of my home instead of drunk off my ass at a bar."

Comments

Re:Rock Band before iTunes?

[gEvil (beta)]

Jackson bought the publishing rights to the music. For the most part, this covers sheet music, lyric printing, cover versions, etc. The actual sound recordings, which are what Rock Band would use, still belong to Apple Corps Ltd.

Re:Bonus points

[gEvil (beta)]

And double bonus points for off-rhythm drumming?

Actually, rhythmically, Ringo (or Paul if you subscribe to that theory) was right on. It's just that a lot of the rhythms that were played were off-beat. There's a major difference between the two.

Not Rock Band

[Princeofcups]

It's going to be a whole new game, not an expansion for Rock Band. Also, it won't be out until XMas 09.

Re:Idiom "could care less"

[Abcd1234]

Once enough people "misspeak" the expression, it reaches critical mass and becomes proper usage.

I can accept that for, say, mispronounciations, such as irregardless (well, "accept" isn't quite right, but...). But, come on, this is *clearly* a case of an incorrect grammatical construction.

So while this may be common usage, it most certainly is not *proper*.

Re:Rock Band before iTunes?

[kurzweilfreak]

Smashing Pumpkins recorded a song just for Guitar Hero World Tour.