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Beatles Rock Band Game Coming In September
An anonymous reader writes with news that The Beatles: Rock Band has gotten a release date: Sept. 9th. Today's announcement also included details about the contents of the game. Quoting Kotaku:
"The Beatles: Rock Band will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and 'experience The Beatles extraordinary catalog of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band's legendary career,' according to the release. The game will also have a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career."
I don't know about that - it seems like a great way of breathing life back into his music, bringing it to a new generation with no obvious drawback.
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So I'm not even pushing my 30s yet, but I grew up on this stuff. As a kid I would go through my dad's vinyl collection and dub them to tape (yar, I be a pirate at a young age!). It's interesting that in my teenage years I still listened to them and noticed a lot of influences from the Beatles in some of the more contemporary music of the day.
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, for example, attempted a Sgt. Pepper's-esque album with Machina, and though I don't think it had the same effect, you could see him trying to take the band in a new direction by being this fictional psuedo-band like the Beatles did to get a refresh thirty years earlier.
And that's what makes them culturally significant--that thirty years after their disbandment and half of quartet are dead, their music still has a major impact.
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Comparing The Beatles to Spears is like comparing giant squashes to snow peas. Please. I don't dispute your assessment of their level of risque, just the comparison to a singer targeted for a specific demographic, mtv pupz. Spears will never, ever achieve the longevity, and breadth/quality of creativity The Beatles did. Amen.