Four Fabs Down, One Fab Four To Go? • 10.10.07
I had no advance notice of it, but I was not surprised to see nine albums from George Harrison’s solo back catalog added to iTunes yesterday. It’s not the complete catalog (yet) - Dark Horse and Extra Texture are missing, as are his two Beatles-era side project albums Wonderwall Music and Electronic Sound - but it’s nice to have the nine remaining albums, including his landmark All Things Must Pass and his final statement Brainwashed there. It was only a matter of time, since Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr had already made their iTunes debuts in the three previous months.
George’s widow Olivia told the Associated Press that she hopes that the Beatles’ group back catalog appears on iTunes in 2008. She’s not the only one.
Coincidentally, George’s tracks went up on iTunes on October 9, which was John Lennon’s birthday. Appropriately, one of the tracks I downloaded yesterday was this pre-Anthology reunion of the surviving Beatles that memorialized John.
