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John Lennon Downloads to iTunes
Apple just scored some instant karma with John Lennon fans.
The company's iTunes Store began selling the late Beatle's solo catalog on Tuesday, the first time Lennon's work has been available via the Internet's most popular digital download service.
Effective immediately, 16 of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's albums are available, including his landmark Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Double Fantasy, as well as the compilation albums Lennon Legend, Acoustic, Anthology and Working Class Hero.
The entire catalog has been digitally remastered, and the tracks will be available in DRM-free format for $1.29 each.
As a bonus, exclusive videos will be bundled with several of the albums for the next month.
"John would have loved the fact that his music will now be available in a format suited to a new generation of listeners," Yoko Ono said in a statement.
"John Lennon is one of the greatest artists of our time," added Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and inveterate Beatlemaniac. "We're thrilled to have his solo catalog available on the iTunes Store for the first time."
With the addition of Lennon, three of the four Beatles have now made their way to iTunes. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr came aboard earlier this year, leaving George Harrison as the only one whose solo post-Beatles oeuvre is not represented. (Harrison's Traveling Wilburys music debuted in June.)
Last fall, Lennon's (and Harrison's) solo work was cleared for release on all major digital distributors except the biggest, Apple's iTunes—the computer company was embroiled in a legal battle with the Beatles' Apple Corps at the time. With that spat now resolved, it appears only a matter of time before all of the Fab Four's musical output is downloadable.
Indeed, McCartney and EMI have confirmed that the entire Beatles catalog is getting digitally remastered. Sources say the Beatles' tracks could be available on iTunes by the end of the year, although the launch may be pushed back to early 2008.
Meanwhile, in other golden-oldies news, easy-rocker James Taylor, who coincidentally got his start on the Beatles' Apple label, has followed the lead of McCartney and is brewing up his next album for Starbucks.
Taylor has announced that One Man Band, an "intimate retrospective of 40 years' worth of songs," will be released through the coffee chain's Hear Music label in time for the holidays.
One Man Band will be the third album issued by Hear Music, after McCartney's recent Memory Almost Full and Joni Mitchell's Shine, slated for a Sept. 25 release.
Aside from Starbucks, the disc will be sold via traditional retailers and, yes, iTunes.
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