Apple Corps still isn't ready to offer The Beatles' music via digital download. But the company, owned by the survivors and heirs of the legendary pop band, showed on Tuesday that it's warming to the idea.
Apple and its music distribution partner, EMI Music, said that beginning Oct. 26 they will sell remastered CDs and downloadable tracks from 15 albums featuring other Apple hitmakers from the 1960s and early 1970s including James Taylor, Badfinger, Billy Preston, Mary Hopkin, and Jackie Lomax.
This will be the first time that any Apple recordings will be legally available for download.
Even though the recordings aren't from The Beatles, members left their mark on many of the tunes. For example, Paul McCartney and George Harrison played on Taylor's Carolina In My Mind. McCartney also wrote and produced Badfinger's Come And Get It.
McCartney, Harrison, and Ringo Starr played on Lomax's album "Is This What You Want?" – as did Keith Richards and Eric Clapton.
It's not all pop. The new releases will include two albums by the Modern Jazz Quartet—a group that John Lennon championed.
Not included in the October releases are albums by other Apple performers who have cult followings including David Peel, Lon and Derrek Von Eaton, and The Radha-Krishna Temple.
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