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A recent poll by U.K. gadget Website Pocket-lint indicated that less than half of respondents say they'll download Beatles songs once—and if—they become available for download.
Have the Beatles finally reached the end of their long and winding road, as it were? After a mere 43 years, is their talent for influencing youth culture finally exhausted?
Not quite. Suddenly, the Beatles are everywhere. Again. (And, oh, yeah, they never went away.)
Martin Scorsese announced last week that he'll undertake a documentary on George Harrison. And in movie theaters, there's Julie Taymor's trippy-dippy Across the Universe, which uses Beatles songs, à la Moulin Rouge, to tell the story of young lovers (Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood) in the 1960s. (Any resemblance between this film and the Bee Gees' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is impossible.)
On bookshelves, there are new books, as there always are. (Kids may one day forget about John, Paul, George and What's-his-name, but authors never will.) On the micro end, there's the Bill Carlson photo collection, The Beatles: One Night Stand in the Heartland, devoted to one night (Aug. 21, 1965) in the life of the band. On the macro end, there's Jonathan Gould's upcoming Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America, about the guys, the guitars and how they changed the whole blasted world.
And in room-and-board news, there's the coming-soon Hard Days Night Hotel in (where else?) Liverpool. Plans call for 100-plus Beatles-themed rooms (the Lennon Suite comes with its own white piano—imagine that), one Beatles-themed restaurant and all-around Fab Four-star service and amenities.
Boy, if the lads could just work out a deal with iTunes, they'd really be going places...
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Well, um... really now. Could the low number of people planning on downloading the Beatles be because the band (and / or Apple) waited too long to finally go digital? I mean really, most people have all the albums on CD and have probably already taken matters into their own hands by ripping and uploading them for their digital libraries themselves, like I did. *nods*
And dammit! I still haven't seen "Across The Universe"! Have to go check and see if it's still playing. I've just been too involved in other things the past couple of weeks or so to even go to a movie. *sighs* Today? Maybe? I have to see if it's still playing here.
Have the Beatles finally reached the end of their long and winding road, as it were? After a mere 43 years, is their talent for influencing youth culture finally exhausted?
Not quite. Suddenly, the Beatles are everywhere. Again. (And, oh, yeah, they never went away.)
Martin Scorsese announced last week that he'll undertake a documentary on George Harrison. And in movie theaters, there's Julie Taymor's trippy-dippy Across the Universe, which uses Beatles songs, à la Moulin Rouge, to tell the story of young lovers (Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood) in the 1960s. (Any resemblance between this film and the Bee Gees' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is impossible.)
On bookshelves, there are new books, as there always are. (Kids may one day forget about John, Paul, George and What's-his-name, but authors never will.) On the micro end, there's the Bill Carlson photo collection, The Beatles: One Night Stand in the Heartland, devoted to one night (Aug. 21, 1965) in the life of the band. On the macro end, there's Jonathan Gould's upcoming Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America, about the guys, the guitars and how they changed the whole blasted world.
And in room-and-board news, there's the coming-soon Hard Days Night Hotel in (where else?) Liverpool. Plans call for 100-plus Beatles-themed rooms (the Lennon Suite comes with its own white piano—imagine that), one Beatles-themed restaurant and all-around Fab Four-star service and amenities.
Boy, if the lads could just work out a deal with iTunes, they'd really be going places...
Source
Well, um... really now. Could the low number of people planning on downloading the Beatles be because the band (and / or Apple) waited too long to finally go digital? I mean really, most people have all the albums on CD and have probably already taken matters into their own hands by ripping and uploading them for their digital libraries themselves, like I did. *nods*
And dammit! I still haven't seen "Across The Universe"! Have to go check and see if it's still playing. I've just been too involved in other things the past couple of weeks or so to even go to a movie. *sighs* Today? Maybe? I have to see if it's still playing here.
