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For decades, The Beatles was run like an elite brand - you couldnt get their records on those "10 for a penny" clubs, their music wasn't played-out in movies & commercials like that of other 60s icons, and the licensing of their image seemed to be rare. In the past few years there's been a huge shift: songs covered in commercials, the movie "Across the Universe" based around their music, the Vegas show "Love" and now a video game.
Although I've never seen anything written about this change, I do know that longtime Apple Records CEO/ex-road manager/childhood pal Neil Aspinall retired from Apple and died this year. Sony exec Jeff Jones took over the Beatles back-catalog in 2007, so I'd guess that's what's behind the shift away from the subtle approach.
on Here Come The Beatles: The Video Game at October 30, 2008 2:13 PMScore = 0
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There definitely appears to have been some shift; even Zeppelin has licensed a song or two in recent years.
The covers are more an issue of who owns the rights to the songs (versus the original recordings), so that's partially Michael Jackson or Sony or whoever. The "Love" musical was a project that George started with a friend of his who was one of the Cirque de Soleil founders. Neil was involved in that as well, as the executive producer.
I, for one, think this game will be fun, not sad or blasphemous. I trust Harmonix to get it right.
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