The Beatles "legacy" reborn on 9/9/09
Alysha Jones, '11 | Staff Reporter
Issue date: 10/9/09 Section: Lifestyle
"Clearly, the date 09/09/09 has at least some symbolic significance for the band," says Daniel Terdiman, a writer for CNET. "As my colleague, Caroline McCartney pointed out in March when the launch date (Sept. 9, 2009) for The Beatles: Rock Band was announced, the band's song "Revolution 9" ends with the words 'number nine, number nine, number nine.'"
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Richard Starkley (a.k.a. Ringo Starr) are the "Four Fab," from Liverpool, England.
"The band also managed almost singlehandedly to transform the innocent entertainment of rock-and- roll into the artistically self-conscious pretensions of rock," says John Rockwell, a writer for the New York Times.
According to an article by CNN, research has shown that The Beatles' music, after more than 40 years, is still interesting to "young people" as much as it ever was. A recent Pew Research survey showed that 81 percent of people between the ages 16 and 29, liked the band. Only 11 percent said that they disliked them and 4 percent have never heard of The Beatles.
On Sept. 9, Harmonix and MTV Games released The Beatles: Rock Band. The same day, the band's re-mastered versions of their catalogue were released by Apples Corps and Capitol: The White Album.
"The new products will help bring the band in the 21st century. Great music is great music," says Bruce Burch, the director of the University of Georgia's music business program. "But the ways of introducing it to a younger audience are different now, and this will help expose the Beatles to a whole new generation."
According to VH1, The Beatles: Rock Band all started with a meeting about the game Rock Band between Dhani Harrison, George Harrision's son and Alex Rigopulos, Harmonix's co-founder when they began to joke how it would be a "cool" idea to have a Beatle's video game. The joke started to sound like a good idea. So Harmonix and MTV Games decided to approach Apple Corps to discuss the idea for The Beatles: Rock Band.
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Richard Starkley (a.k.a. Ringo Starr) are the "Four Fab," from Liverpool, England.
"The band also managed almost singlehandedly to transform the innocent entertainment of rock-and- roll into the artistically self-conscious pretensions of rock," says John Rockwell, a writer for the New York Times.
According to an article by CNN, research has shown that The Beatles' music, after more than 40 years, is still interesting to "young people" as much as it ever was. A recent Pew Research survey showed that 81 percent of people between the ages 16 and 29, liked the band. Only 11 percent said that they disliked them and 4 percent have never heard of The Beatles.
On Sept. 9, Harmonix and MTV Games released The Beatles: Rock Band. The same day, the band's re-mastered versions of their catalogue were released by Apples Corps and Capitol: The White Album.
"The new products will help bring the band in the 21st century. Great music is great music," says Bruce Burch, the director of the University of Georgia's music business program. "But the ways of introducing it to a younger audience are different now, and this will help expose the Beatles to a whole new generation."
According to VH1, The Beatles: Rock Band all started with a meeting about the game Rock Band between Dhani Harrison, George Harrision's son and Alex Rigopulos, Harmonix's co-founder when they began to joke how it would be a "cool" idea to have a Beatle's video game. The joke started to sound like a good idea. So Harmonix and MTV Games decided to approach Apple Corps to discuss the idea for The Beatles: Rock Band.