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The Beatles was the band's first album under Apple Records.. Apple Corps Ltd was conceived by the Beatles in 1967 after the death of their manager Brian Epstein.It was intended to be a small group of companies (Apple Retail, Apple Publishing, Apple Electronics, and so on) as part of Epstein's plan to create a tax-effective business structure. [1]
Calderstone Productions is the London-based subsidiary of Universal Music Group that administers the Beatles' recorded music output that was originally owned by EMI.These works were released on EMI's Parlophone label in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States, from 1962 to 1968; and then by the Beatles' own EMI-distributed Apple Records label from 1968 to 1970.
With the first CD releases of their albums in 1987 and 1988, the Beatles' core catalogue was harmonised worldwide to encompass their 12 original UK studio albums, the 1967 US Magical Mystery Tour album and the newly assembled Past Masters: Volumes One and Two compilation albums consisting of all the studio recordings released during 1962 to ...
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.
The ownership history of the Beatles catalog – both the songwriting and the recordings – is a long and complicated story. There's a section of The Beatles about the song catalog that discusses that history. Should this article link back to that section? — Steve98052 16:28, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Apple began the process of reissuing the back catalogue on compact disc in 1991, with many of the CDs containing bonus tracks. By this time, the releases in the UK and US were virtually identical. This list does not include Beatles or solo albums, which were re-released on compact disc by Parlophone or Capitol.
In 2017, it was reported that McCartney had reached a settlement with Sony in his effort to regain control over much of the Beatles' catalog. At the time, it wasn't clear how the settlement affected his copyright claims, [ 42 ] but on the 2023 release of The Beatles 1962-1966 , "Love Me Do" has McCartney's MPL Communications Ltd. listed as the ...
In 2010, under his direction, The Beatles' catalogue was made available on iTunes through EMI, marking the first time Beatles music had ever been sold as digital downloads. [5] Jones took part in talks for the use of "Tomorrow Never Knows" in AMC series Mad Men, which was the first time a Beatles song had been used in an American television series.