Apple Dismisses Beatles On iTunes Reports

We certainly hope we won’t have to wait until we’re sixty-four in order to see the Beatles catalog appear on iTunes, but it looks like those reports that it’ll happen within the next few months are incorrect.

Multiple reports have surfaced within the last few days stating that the collection of Beatles tunes would be making their way to Apple’s iTunes within months, not years, and the sources were allegedly individuals who were ”close to Sir Paul McCartney”. 

Paul McCartney did say in an interview with Billboard last November that “It’s down to fine-tuning, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be happening next year, 2008.”

Apple does not agree.  The company referred to the talk as “unsubstantiated speculation” and told Reuters that ”this is not news nor is it a scoop.”

The Beatles are considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, bands of all time.  It may not happen tomorrow, or even within months, but it’s only a matter of time before this deal does go down.