But it will obviously help him well off the year

In 1967, Paul McCartney asked if we'd like even when it would be sexagenary in the song "when I m sixty Four" forty-two years later, he can be reassured. Liverpool mythical group creates the musical event of the receipt with the worldwide release, today, the whole of his discography, in a version fully remastered. Either the 12 albums recorded in the studios of EMI of Abbey Road in London, the live album "magical mystery Tour" and "past masters" compilation released in 1988 in two volumes. They separated at the top of their glory, two members are deceased - John Lennon, assassinated in 1980 and George Harrison in 2001-, but the "beatlemania" is ready to restart. In fact, it is never died: since their inception, the Beatles have sold between 600 million and 1 billion albums in the world, according to estimates.

EMI, their record label - it was signed at the beginning of their career-, speaks, it 1 billion. Another significant figure: since the beginning of the 2000s, the Liverpool group has sold 28 million albums in the United States, or the second sale behind rapper Eminem...

From and with all the new tools of digital post-production, requiring four years of working for EMI engineers, these recordings on CD are presented as many better quality than the previous ones.

Intense marketing campaign

Made from the vinyl, the first CD of Beatles left for more than twenty years the "beatlemaniaques" on their hunger. They also benefit from an intense marketing campaign: they will be available in full in two boxes (in mono and stereo with a DVD), or the unit. Even the release date - the "nine nine nine"-was not chosen randomly, since it directly refers to the song experimental "Revolution 9" released in 1968. Some stores of London or Liverpool where the disc will be sold will go even to the end by opening their doors to 9 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds! Final part of this campaign, the output of the disks will be accompanied, on the same day, the video game "The Beatles Rock Band" (see below). Side MP3, part of the titles of the four in Liverpool may be downloaded on the game console. But the complete discography is still not available on the sites of online music, absence of an agreement with the rights holders. Since a few days, the rumour however evokes the next arrival of the Beatles on iTunes, while Apple today held a press conference... Officially, discussions continue always between Apple Corp., the company which includes the rights to Beatles, and Apple Inc., that of Steve Jobs. The two parties long clashed on the use of the mark to Apple, but the conflict was resolved.

For EMI, the historical record label of the Beatles, this output is heavy issues. If it can expect sales in million copies, this marketing move does not resolve to only the financial difficulties of the British major. But it will obviously help him well off the year. Claire Enders, an analyst specializing in the media, sales of the new Beatles may have an impact from 5 to 10 on the turnover of EMI. But "EMI problems are such that the output of the Beatles will have no significant impact", she told the Bloomberg Agency.