Real or Really Fake? Beatles on iTunes Screen Shot
Every year Apple has a special music event, and every year Beatles rumors follow along with it. This time, the event date of 9/9/9, the release of Beatles Remastered on CD and Beatles Rock Band has the rumors running faster than ever. Will iTunes join the fray, or will Big Music try to make their money on physical media and games before allowing digital downloads?
Current is adding fuel to the fire, however, with a purported screenshot of the Beatles being featured on iTunes — a slip of the old server, so to speak.
But is it real, or just really fake? iTunes ads are easier to whip up on photoshop than lolcats, after all.
Still, we’re just over a day and half from “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it“, so crazy time, it has arrived!
[Thanks Glenn for the tip!]
September 7th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
It looks fake.. Have you seen the commercial, it’s kind of creepy how their heads are CGI’ed on (esp. George’s)!
September 7th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Rene: Your banners jump up on top of the zoomed image covering the point of interest.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Fake
September 7th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Hmmm…. It’s hard to say…
But that lolcats line had me dying laughing.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Fake! There is no way that an ad on iTunes would use the basic Photoshop “Outer Glow” feature.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
And its fake anyway. The title overlaying the picture doesn’t look like any text on any iTunes I’ve ever seen.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
its fake, its a screenshot from the uk store go look and you’ll see it goes to a just jack/barclays award thing
September 7th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
I believe that it’s not fake. It was taken quickly yesterday evening and had disappeared by early this morning. The blogger responsible for the screenshot does not have any reason to post a mock-up.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I hope so! But it most likely won’t happen
September 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
@Glenn: But apple does not test things on live servers.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Faker than Fakey McFakersons latest forgery.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I doubt this is real.
Honestly I don’t know what the big deal is to begin with. If you’re really a Beatles fan you’ve already got CDs of every album and they’ve all been put on your iPod/iPhone years ago.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Fake. They are still showing the “buy a mac, get an iPod touch free” box. If this is being announced on September 9th, why have an expired offer up?
September 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
@icebike I did not know that. Maybe it was just a genuine slip?
@Miles I don’t buy CDs any more, and I don’t have any acquaintances who have Beatles CDs to rip them from. I do have mp3s, but these remasters will be of great quality, so I would definitely like to get them. It’s just a personal thing. Being a bit obsessive compulsive, I do like an organised music database on my laptop, so it’ll be nice to see The Beatles lined up in my iTunes library alongside other artists, instead of shunted into another folder.
I do think that the rumour is a bit of a running joke, and I’m sort of hoping that it happens this time, but I don’t hold out too much.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
@Moe That offer wouldn’t have expired if it was up on 6th September. It’ll be removed tomorrow or the next day. That offer is still on my iTunes homepage as I type.
September 7th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Why would it be real? Even if the Beatles are coming to iTunes, why would there even be a mock-up to leak? Artwork updates are so routine, I just don’t know why this would exist. The old “hit the wrong button” theory just doesn’t seem very likely to me. Anything’s possible, but given the incredible ease with which this could be faked, I’m not buying it. The Beatles may be coming to iTunes. But this, I believe, is a fraud.
Like Miles, I don’t get the big deal here. It’s not like the Beatles are unavailable. They’re on my iPod right now. What Beatles fans don’t own the CDs?
September 7th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
@Glen Reuben Okay, I guess you have your reasons for wanting the Beatles on iTunes. I blabbed for so long, there were three responses written in the time I was typing!
September 7th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
That’s okay! Yeah, I do understand though. I don’t fully expect any announcement. If anything, it’ll appear on iTunes without any commotion some time in October and everyone will be happy. For one thing, the current situation is certainly going to help rejuvenate sales of CDs (even if I won’t be buying any!).
September 7th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
So fake it’s laughable! George has no neck, Paul’s head looks disjointed from the rest of his body, Ringo looks like he’s got his neck caught in a zip, and John’s face is closer to the camera than all the other Beatles!
September 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I think it’s fake, but the “bonus content” would be apples new cocktail feature. Kudos forthinking of that while maching this up.
September 7th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Soooo fake.
September 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
@Matthew Sorry, but that’s rubbish. The image is a real one, as demonstrated by these other ones, all from the same photoshoot:
http://gaygamer.net/images/beatles_bw.jpg http://rgcred.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/beatles88.jpg
September 7th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@Tenor146 Yes indeed, the Cocktail rumours do fit nicely into place when it mentions “bonus content”.
September 7th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Image fake, but this might be the year with all the other 9/9/09 Beatles stuff happening.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Not to mention that they spelled Catalog wrong.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
How’s about, who cares? The beetles have 1 or 2 good songs, everything else was ****.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
It’s real in my opinion.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Like Elaine said on Seinfeld, “fake, fake .. fake, fake.”
September 7th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
clearly fake. Zoom in very closely, and you’ll see that on the 2 flanking ads, the shadow underneath is darker at the edges, and lighter toward the center of the ad. On the “Beatles” one, it is the same shading all the way across on that bottom shadow. Clearly photoshopped.
September 7th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Who gives a **** if they put their music on iTunes. U guys make it such a big deal. My iPhone already has the whole album collectors edition. U think I’m gonna buy on iTunes?? Never bought any music on iTunes and never will.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:02 am
@GP you obviously have no idea about their music because the beatles have at least 15 songs that are considered amazing by most people around the world. They also have a **** load more songs that are great, but few people have heard before. Much like Queen which most people say is ****, but then when they actually listen to the greatest hits cd they realize how wrong they are. Now if you have heard all their music, and still think it’s ****. You must have very paticular taste in music. In which case I feel sorry for you because you’ll never enjoy the things that bring pleasure to everyone else. I bet you liked disaster movie, and meet the Spartans! For shame GP, for shame!
September 8th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Idk but I love me some beatles <3333
September 8th, 2009 at 5:24 am
@frag It’s not spelt wrong. It’s a screenshot of the UK store, and that’s how catalogue is spelt here.
@matt No, that shading is exactly the same in my iTunes store right now. There is no photoshopping of any kind going on here. You are looking at it far too deeply.
@CJ That’s your opinion, but not mine. I love The Beatles, but I’m happy to get a remastered digital catalogue.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Hmmmn. Try holding it up to a mirror and looking at it backwards. lol.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Who cares?! The beatels music is sheet
September 8th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Throw me in the “It’s Fake” column. The title isn’t centered on the top of the ad (The ‘t’ is closer to the right side than then ‘R’ is to the left side.) Also the ‘preorder’ badge has pixelated edges.
Apple’s graphic designers are waaaay too anal for that.