Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix today announced the launch of Abbey Road (1969) as the first Beatles album to be available for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store.
With “Come Together,” “Something,” “Octopus’s Garden,” “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” “Here Comes The Sun” and “The End” already included on The Beatles: Rock Band game disc, players will now be able to play songs from and complete the entire Abbey Road album.
MTV Games and Harmonix today revealed 15 more of the 45 on-disc tracks that will be featured in The Beatles: Rock Band.
Following the première of The Beatles: Rock Band at the Microsoft press briefing at E3 last month, the newly announced 15 songs represent a cross-section of hits and favourites that span The Beatles’ career from Can’t Buy Me Love and Paperback Writer to With A Little Help From My Friends and Yellow Submarine, bringing the total number of announced songs to 25.
The 15 new songs for The Beatles: Rock Band and the venues they are featured in are:
The Beatles have inspired musicians for decades and provided an influence that has spanned generations.
Paying homage to these melodic, master craftsmen is the essence of what The Beatles: Rock Band is all about.
Playing through the game takes the player on a magical mystery tour spanning The Beatles' illustrious career. The Beatles: Rock Band is to feature a whopping 45 songs on disk, with limited edition hardware such as Ringo’s black oyster pearl finish drums. Instruments from Rock Band and Rock Band 2 are also compatible. In the fine tradition of the franchise, you can have great fun with friends unleashing those rock urges that lurk in most of us - who knows you may even start to notice the range of influence the Beatles has had in almost any genre of music that has followed.
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The world's leading music game meets the greatest band in history. The Beatles: Rock Band gives fans what they've been waiting for: a chance to experience the Beatles' legendary story from the inside. You won't just watch and listen as The Beatles make rock history, create landmark records and conquer the world-for the first time, you'll be part of the band. The Beatles software is compatible with Rock Band and Guitar Hero instruments as well as third party microphones including SingStar and Lips.
The Game
Join John, Paul, George and Ringo on-stage at legendary shows, behind closed doors in the recording studio, and in dreamscapes that bring their psychedelic imagery to life. The acclaimed Rock Band elements of interactive play and full-band capacity are here, but with brand-new additions. This will be the first music game to offer harmonies, challenging you to recreate The Beatles’ vocal blend. There are custom-built models of the instruments that the helped to make iconic; audio straight from the masters; and graphics that take you on a magical tour through the key moments in Beatles history. Produced with the full cooperation of The Beatles and Apple Corps, the game is packed with fab extras. Master the songs to hear rare audio and view unseen photos from the archive.The Song List
The Beatles were one of the most prolific bands of all time, churning out memorable hit after hit and this reflected in the song list of The Beatles: Rock Band. From "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Get Back," every song in The Beatles: Rock Band comes directly from the Abbey Road master tapes. More than 40 songs are included with the game, spanning the length of The Beatles’ career, with more to follow via download on PlayStation Network. Just a few classic hits that players can expect to see right out of the box include:The Gameplay Venues
- I Saw Her Standing There
- I Want to Hold Your Hand
- I Feel Fine
- Day Tripper
- Taxman
- I Am The Walrus
- Back In The USSR
- Octopus’s Garden
- Here Comes The S
- Twist And Shout
- Do You Want To Know A Secret
- Can't Buy Me Lover
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- Eight Days A Week
- Paperback Write
- And Your Bird Can Sing
- Yellow Submarine
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows
- Revolution
- Birthday
- Dig A Pony
- I've Got A Feeling
Having made music together in various capacities and combinations for more than ten years, The Beatles career is inextricably linked with a variety of venues. Follow The Beatles from their earliest days in locales in Liverpool and Hamburg, to their triumphant Ed Sullivan Show appearance and beyond. In addition, join them in the studio at Abbey Road and experience dreamscapes that put you inside the psychedelic era. Just a few of the famous venues players can expect to see in the game are:
- Cavern Club
- The Ed Sullivan Theater
- Shea Stadium
- Budokan
- Abbey Road
- Rooftop
