MTV's 'Rock Band' Will Feature Beatles Songs
Big Beatles announcement Thursday morning. The group is licensing key songs to MTV Games' "Rock Band" video game. The announcement will be for a "Rock Band" game set to appear for Christmas 2009. Sources tell me that Paul McCartney has already seen a demo of it, and approves.
The word is that this "Rock Band" game will "blow away" all the others. It should include classics like "Revolution," "Helter Skelter," and "Hey Jude." The Beatles never license their master recordings for anything, especially movies or TV. Putting together "Rock Band" with their songs is a coup for MTV's Judy McGrath and Van Toffler, and shows that Apple Corps' Jeff Jones is set to bring the Beatles into the 21st century.
But again, don't expect an announcement about downloading any time soon. The Beatles make a fortune off sales of their CDs. So far it's worked for them to say away from things like ITunes and other services. And it may stay that way for some time to come.
