Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band next week

Apple Corps and MTV Games’ Harmonix announced The Beatles classic album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), will be available in its entirety for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band starting November 17, 2009.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the second full album from The Beatles to hit The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store since the game’s launch on September 9. Last month MTV Games and Harmonix released Abbey Road (1969) as the first full downloadable album for use in the game. Additionally,
“All You Need Is Love,” the first downloadable track available for the game, has shown similar success with more than 100,000 downloads to date on Xbox LIVE. Proceeds to that song are being donated to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Available for Xbox 360 (Nov. 17) and PlayStation 3 (Nov. 19), songs that are not already part of the original game’s line-up - including “Fixing A Hole,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!,” “Within You Without You,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lovely Rita,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” and “A Day In The Life” - will cost $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per track. The “Complete Album Pack” will cost $13.49 USD, £7.49, €8.99 (1080 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360).

And if you own the Wii version, you can by individual tracks for $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) each starting Nov. 17.

Abbey Road now available for The Beatles Rock Band

Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix have released Abbey Road for The Beatles: Rock Band - the first Beatles album available for purchase as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store. You can find out more about the contents of the package by reading this story from yesterday.

More Beatles albums that have been announced as upcoming downloadable content include Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) in November and Rubber Soul (1965) in December. The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content will be available for purchase on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, PlayStation Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii.
The album is available today on Xbox 360 and Wii, and will be released Oct. 22 on PS3.

The Beatles Rock Band soon gets Abbey Road album

Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix announced 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. This download will give players access to all the songs on the album - some were released when the game went live earlier this year including With Come Together, Something, Octopus’s Garden, I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Here Comes The Sun and The End.

Available for Xbox 360 (Oct. 20) and PlayStation 3 System (Oct. 22): The Complete The Album Pack features the singles Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, and Because; a B-side 16 minute medley that includes: You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight and The End; and songs that can be played as 1-to-3-song sets based on how they were recorded / composed (You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam/ She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End and Her Majesty. The Complete Album will be available for $16.99 USD, £10.46 UK, €11.37 EU (1360 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360).

available for Wii on Oct. 20 are individual Abbey Road singles: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money, and Her Majesty
Each will be priced at $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) per each individual track. Her Majesty will costs $1.00 USD (100 Wii Points). Multi-Track sets including
Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, and Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End are also available at
$3.50 USD (350 Wii Points) per 2-Pack.

Additional Beatles albums that have been announced as upcoming downloadable content include Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) in November and Rubber Soul (1965) in December. The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content will be available for purchase on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, PlayStation Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii.

The Beatles Rock Band Mania sweeps the nation

The Beatles: Rock Band is in stores today in various SKUs including with and without a custom themed guitar, by itself and on various platforms including the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and VHS. Okay, it’s not out on VHS but if you’re interested in buying it on that format then you are probably really old and need some assisted living.

For our part we offer three great articles about the game: a brand new Games For Lunch, Harold Goldberg’s The Beatles Rock Band review and Kyle Orland’s The Beatles Rock Band inspired feature - Nine Songs We Want as The Beatles: Rock Band DLC (and Four We Don’t).

Finally, and not surprisingly The Beatles Rock Bandmania has hit the Crispy offices. Thank you Harmonix and The surviving Beatles for giving my co-workers another reason to get drunk after work. Yes, I’m am slightly jealous.

Three Beatles albums for The Beatles Rock Band by year’s end

Speaking at Gamescom 2009 this week, Alex Rigopulos, CEO and co-founder of Harmonix, confirmed release details for the three Beatles albums that will be available for purchase as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store by the end of this year. Abbey Road will be released on October 20, 2009, followed by the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in November and Rubber Soul in December.

Rigopulos also revealed that tracks from Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Elton John, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera, Talking Heads, Korn, The Raconteurs and more will be among the artists coming to the various offerings across the Rock Band platform.

Details for downloadable albums coming to The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store are follow after the break:

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More The Beatles Rock Band tracks revealed

MTV Games and Harmonix have revealed 15 more songs that you can except to be featured in the upcoming all-Beatles version of Rock Band later this year. The Beatles: Rock Band will feature over 45 tracks when it ships Sept. 9 of this year for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. But instead of just telling us about all the tracks, Harmonix wants to tease us a little. Today’s reveal includes 15 new tracks and special venues where these songs will be played out by Rock Band fans. For example, “Twist And Shout” will take place at the Cavern Club, “Paperback Writer” will happen at Budokan and “Revolution” will feature the backdrop of Abbey Road Dreamscape.

The full list of today’s revealed tracks with venues can be found after the break - today’s 15 brings the total number of revealed songs to 25 - in case you’re keeping score:

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The Beatles Rock Band LE European Pricing

For all our brothers and sisters across the pond comes this story about The Beatles: Rock Band pricing. Specifically pricing for The Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition Premium Bundle. Consumers in continental Europe will have to shell out 199.00 euros, while the bundle will retail for 179.00 Pounds Sterling in the UK. the U.S. version will retail for $249.99. That’s pretty expensive right? So expensive that it should come with a shot of “talent” for people who continue to insist they “aren’t that bad” or “they must have a cold or something.” Yeah, tell your story walking, sir and/or madame (you know who you are).

So if it doesn’t come with talent injunctions, then what does the bundle contain that’s so damn pricey? Well it features The Beatles: Rock Band software, a Hofner Bass controller (a large scale replica of the Bass famously used by Sir Paul McCartney), a Beatles-inspired and Ludwig-branded Rock Band 2 drum set with classic pearl finish and vintage replica Beatles kick drum head, a microphone and stand, and additional special content.

North American and European fans who pre-order any version of the game will be eligible to join the The Beatles: Rock Band Pre-Order Club and receive breaking news and access to exclusive game elements including art and behind-the-scenes footage directly from MTV Games and Harmonix. New material will be released regularly starting in May and leading up to the game’s launch on Sept. 9.

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