Rock Band to make Beatles game

From Q104.3

Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney hopes a new Rock Band game based on the Fab Four will help to introduce his music to a new generation of kids.

The “Hey Jude” hitmakers’ record label Apple Corps. signed a deal with Rock Band manufacturers MTV and Harmonix last year to create a new interactive game based on the Beatles’ music.

Rock Band allows users to play along to music, virtually, using replicas of instruments.

And McCartney reveals the project will span every musical twist and turn the Beatles took during their Sixties heyday.

He says, “It will feature different periods of the band you get early days, Liverpool, then psychedelic, and on from there.

“It’s very cool. And I like the idea that the game introduces kids to music, you know?”

I may be alone here, but I’m getting very tired of Paul McCartney trying to act like he’s a pioneer of new ways to use music. This is the same dude who originally thought digital downloads were bullshit and who kept music off iTunes. I know that the Beatles’ music is treated like a sacred holy artifact, but I think that attitude goes against the entire message of the music itself. McCartney (and Ringo, who no one ever mentions anymore for some reason) are just proving that they’re rich, out of touch old guys. 

That said, I think a Beatles edition of Rock Band would be sweet….. but I still think McCartney has proved to be quite a douche over the past few decades.