Apple Corps Ltd. and MTV to Announce Exclusive Agreement to Develop Unprecedented Global Music Project

WHAT: Apple Corps Ltd. and MTV to announce an exclusive agreement to develop a global music project.

WHO: Jeff Jones, CEO of Apple Corps, Ltd.
Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks
Van Toffler, President of MTV Networks Music/Logo Group

WHEN: Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:00 pm UK Time, 10:00 am ET, 7:00 AM PT

About Apple Corps. Ltd.
Apple Corps Ltd. was founded by The Beatles in 1968 to look after the group's own affairs. The London-based company has administered the catalogue of The Beatles releases of the 1960s that have sold to date more than 600 million records, tapes and CDs. Since the 1990s Apple has piloted new Beatles projects that have become benchmarks for pioneering accomplishment and which have included The Beatles Anthology projects, the 28 million-selling album The Beatles 1 and the The Beatles LOVE show and CD. Further information on The Beatles' projects can be found at www.thebeatles.com.

About MTV Networks
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world’s leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products. The company’s portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 350 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, Gametrailers and Xfire.

Aww shite, did the Beatles just sign with Rock Band 2??

Ohhh mama..

xbox360, rockband, rockband2, beatles

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The first time I saw Rudy Ray Moore I came back home from a night of drinking with some former coworkers at a Petstore I used to work at in college.   Most of Athens had gone back to their respective homes for Xmas for a good 2 or 3 weeks (I think this was during Quarters, before Semesters) and I had stayed in Athens to work and to make some extra flow.  It was definitely after xmas, but probably in the few days before New Years and my friend Noel and I had taken a cab back to an apartment I shared with D and Noel had already passed out on the couch.    I remember not being able to sleep so I sat and was flipping channels and this movie came on.  I distinctly remember it because it was extremely racial and absolutely hysterical.  The devil had granted this guy a choice, he could either stay in hell or go back and marry this extremely ugly girl.  The movie was hazy but I remember (along with the chemicals) absolutely laughing my ass off the entire time, half because it was funny and the other half because I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing on the TV.  Petey Wheatstraw still cracks me up to this day just thinking about it.  We got our Netflix account probably 3 or 4 years ago and I remember along with Bond movies, going through Rudy Ray Moore's back catalog of Dolemite-ish films.    Yeah they were blaxploitation and I will be the first to admit I didn't get all the jokes, but never the less it still cracked me up to no end. 

Sad to see him go.   

In a very blunt book forum I frequent, regarding George RR Martin and his finishing of the Song of Ice and Fire series:

I'd suggest worrying about whether it will end rather than that it ends. We have a 60 year old fat unhealthy fuck of an author with three books to go, the last two of which have taken him increasingly absurd amounts of time to complete. I'd say his actuarial tables look about as good as those of John McCain surviving two terms in office.