You own the Beatles licensing and publishing rights for one week. You have control of how their music is used. You can right wrongs, get creative or get all tasteless and tacky. What do you do? Close the Vegas show down immediately? Hire Dangermouse or someone to mix the too-nasty-for-the-movie Let It Be fights into a mega-mix, or sell “Octopus’s Garden” to the Olive Garden? Respectively. Those songs are yours for seven days. Go.
Lunchtime Poll: The Power Is Yours
4/18/07, 12:05 pm EST
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toooldtorandr | 5/1/2007, 12:58 pm EST
Hey, wouldn’t it be great to see Paul & Ringo team up and tour together one last time before they have to wheel them out on stage? That is assuming we in the audience can stay awake past the 8:oo p.m. showtime.
P.S. You can’t spell “crap without “rap”!!!
HipNana | 4/27/2007, 1:09 pm EST
First it would take around 4 days to wake up from passing out once I learned I had the opportunity
Like ALOT of others, I would give it back to Paul, Ringo,Sean, Julian, and the others. I wept when I saw a Beatles song on I think a TARGET commercial. And hey, if people hate them, it’s their loss. I’ve loved them since I was five years old and saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show. Oh, and if I could get Paul to take a picture with me, my life would be complete
Don’t be vicious, people.
toooldtorandr | 4/23/2007, 9:09 am EST
Thanks for the positive remarks to my post. Tell me this; is the garbage that passes for “music” today going to hold up in 20,30, 40 years? I don’t think we’ll be hearing an “all Eminem weekend” anytime soon. Nuff said.
staindpearlygirl | 4/22/2007, 12:30 pm EST
C’mon now! The Beatles are what defined rock -n- roll, and yes for thier generation and guess what?? Their music has survived and maintained positions on radio air time, STILL! They were at least, musical geniuses, despite their days spent tripping and druggin.
I mos def would give them back to Paul as long as he agreed to divvy it up amongst the band members and sean lennon, NOT the momma, Yoko Ono (whacko). That is what I feel broke them apart.
cheesecrop | 4/21/2007, 8:46 pm EST
You got it right. I think everyone is Beatled out. People in general have started taking the easy way out instead of looking for more interesting music today. The Fab Four have become what they themselves would have scoffed at in thier youth: a safe call for the musically timid. If you could get a time machine and drag them from 67 to today I think they’d be a little upset at the way the public perceives them today (I’m convinced even McCartney would be pissed, and that says something in commercial terms).
rkentca | 4/20/2007, 2:03 pm EST
hey, toooldtorandr. Not Beatle haters, not ever. Just, over the course of a half century, Beatled out. The Fab Four were the sound of their generation - and have nothing to offer this one. I never could understand my parents liking Sinatra - he was totally irrelevant to me. And so too are JPGR to this generation. Let them fade out into their night with the close-held affection and nostalgia of those of us who were there. Let the new music, the new sound, resound.
toooldtorandr | 4/19/2007, 3:27 pm EST
To all the Beatle haters I’ve been reading: Realize what passed for rock and roll from 62′ to early 64′. Lame surf music and boy singers.They defined and recreated rock and roll. Respect your elders! I’d sell it back to Paul, Ringo etc.. and then have them buy M. Jackson’s catalog. That’d be in the kids section, right?
John R. | 4/19/2007, 11:56 am EST
I’d officially release the Christmas fan club records and put out complete versions of the Christmas songs that appear in snippets on the records from 1966-68. All of them are better than “Wonderful Christmastime.”
Sarah | 4/19/2007, 10:55 am EST
I second sgtpepper
sounds good
baconballs | 4/19/2007, 10:20 am EST
I am a prophet.
You put Sanjina on the front page.
Rolling Stone, seriously: Whatever happened to ‘all the news fit to print’?
This American Idol shit.. come on. Really. RS used to be different and fresh. Now, it’s People and Tiger Beat for the Xanax and Red Bull generation. Too bad. No jokes, no swearing.. it just sucks to see this.
Rockstar70 | 4/19/2007, 9:57 am EST
I would sell the song to Olive Garden, then sell the catalog back to Ringo and Paul, finally I would buy my own island and never look at Rollingstone.com again…………I waste way too much time here!
whazzzup | 4/19/2007, 9:32 am EST
SERIOUSLY…. I cant belive that u people even care about the beatles.
they sucked then and they suck worse now! MJ did them a favor!
idiots!
~Zig~ | 4/19/2007, 6:27 am EST
I would sell the music back to Sir Paul and Ringo with no strings attatched because that’s who the music belongs to-them.Not Micheal Jackson.Paul and Ringo played on everything from “Please Please Me” to “Abbey Road” and everything in between so I would give the music back to them.The only thing I would ask in return is to hang out with them for a week.
david | 4/19/2007, 5:19 am EST
cancel everything except the publishing rights to the albums and only the albums as a whole. take the papers roll them into joints and smoke them. Let nobody bastardize it ever again.
sgtpepper | 4/19/2007, 3:06 am EST
I would have a huge bed-in Lennon-style and play the catalog beginning to end and anyone who wants to can come join in the wonderful listening experience
KEITHMOON | 4/19/2007, 1:05 am EST
Give it back the Beatles as the way it should be. The Beatles not owning their own songs is totally fucked up to begin with…Widows in kin included…get it right people!!
txasbranco | 4/19/2007, 12:25 am EST
I’d use Revolution to sell some sneakers…again.
samba | 4/18/2007, 11:50 pm EST
I’d sell the catalog back to the Beatles at a modest reasonable profit,with the one provision that they couldn’t sell any song for a commercial jingle at any time.
David | 4/18/2007, 11:28 pm EST
1. id give it to some rap listening little bitch with no sence of music taste and show him hwat real music.
2. then id trade it for the AC/DC catologue
baconballs | 4/18/2007, 11:05 pm EST
I would take the rights, and put out album after album of Sanjina singing 3 versions of every (pssst… hey) Beatle song..
one would be a R&B arrangement, one would be a latin arrangement, and the last would just be a cappella. Sanjina should be on the cover of RS… then the editors can all judge themselves against him to see who is the most useless turdburger douchebag.
Yep, that’s EXACTLY what I would do. After I send the dead sparrow to Jann (the gay philanderer) Wenner.
AHA | 4/18/2007, 8:43 pm EST
I would only allow the songs to be used by causes and companies that I and the author of the songs can agree are worthy. So that is Paul, Ringo and me. The widows have nothing to do with this. Itunes can bite me. As can any artists that wishes to disect and dismantle any of these songs. For any reason.
wickitpickit | 4/18/2007, 8:28 pm EST
I would hole up in my house with some beer and the stickiest of ickies and keep the catalog all to myself…MINE ALL MINE!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
DeadHorse | 4/18/2007, 8:05 pm EST
I was just about ready to say that I was not interested in letting Olive Garden use the Beatles songs, however, this Oliver Garden guy does sound like a strapping chap. I may reconsider.
Klaatu | 4/18/2007, 6:59 pm EST
Who the heck is “Oliver Garden?”
david | 4/18/2007, 6:40 pm EST
I`d sell NOTHING of theirs to ANYONE! however I would let dangermouse and everyone in the world use their music and sample their music fairly. and I`d put them on itunes.
VH | 4/18/2007, 6:11 pm EST
I would not let anyone use the songs unless the companies wanting to use them first got permission from Paul, Ringo, Olivia, and/or Yoko. That’s the way it should be. No Hello Goodbye in Target commercials. No From Me to You in Sears commerials.
Andy Ampersand | 4/18/2007, 5:43 pm EST
I’d make sure they were brilliantly remastered & reissue them to the world.
Steve | 4/18/2007, 4:51 pm EST
a) Release “Let It Be” on DVD in an uber-deluxe edition with several hours of additional footage.
b) A DVD box set featuring complete performances used for the Anthology videos, without the annoying documentary part. All the promo videos, TV appearances, filmed concerts, etc, in the pristine remastered condition found on the Anthology DVD’s.
c) REMASTER THE FUCKING CD’s. God, they sound like shit. Even better would be mono & stereo mixes and additional discs of outtakes and such like the Universal ‘deluxe editions’ that have trickled out over the last 5 years.
DrJ | 4/18/2007, 3:37 pm EST
Let’s face it, despite having the sacred “Beatles” name attached to them, bland ditties like “Octopuses’ Garden” aren’t that far removed from commercial jingles in the first place. So, yes, I’d let Olive Garden have it. Plus I’d let “Hello Goodbye” be used to sell toilet paper and let the Tampax company have “Your Mother Should Know.”
phann | 4/18/2007, 3:03 pm EST
I would contact iTunes and EVERY other freaking internet music store I could find and make a deal: You can sell The Beatles, but ONLY as lossless FLAC files with no DRM, and ONLY at prices less than 1 dollar per track.
I'll take a crap in SANCHEZ'S | 4/18/2007, 2:56 pm EST
MOUTH!
DUMB BEANER!
absentiabanish | 4/18/2007, 2:55 pm EST
Remaster them first. Sell them on vinyl and online no cd’s!
I'LL SELL MY DAUGHTER'S ASS | 4/18/2007, 2:54 pm EST
FOR THE RIGHT AMOUNT!
rkentca | 4/18/2007, 2:14 pm EST
I’d put the Beatles’ catalog in the old outhouse where they used to put last year’s Sears catalog - same use. They were great for us old folks 40+ years ago - nothing but quaint, irrelevant archives today. I greatly doubt John would still be listening to 99% of it.
jandek | 4/18/2007, 2:13 pm EST
could I possibly have it be that NO beatles songs be played in public nor on radio for a week???? Now that sounds like a vacation
Bangers-N-Mash | 4/18/2007, 1:40 pm EST
I would sell the rights to hospitals
and you’d be issued the Beatles catalog at birth
the way it should be
the porksword | 4/18/2007, 1:23 pm EST
who comes up with these polls???
Sanchez | 4/18/2007, 1:23 pm EST
Sell them to Gene Simmons for a gallon of horse jizz.
JBK (Surf City Sounds Plus) | 4/18/2007, 1:08 pm EST
Hi: All of the previous postings here on this are reasonable….I haven’t seen the Vegas show, but it is endorsed by all of feuding Fab Four families. Mine are:
1. Please. (If I had the power)
Finally release the full, unexpurgated “Let It Be” documentary with all the bells and whistles…
2. Any creative mixing from now on be done by McCartney, Starr, Julian and Sean Lennon working in tandem….
Make it so!
!
Live Free or Die | 4/18/2007, 12:55 pm EST
I would have a limited release of all albums on vinyl, with the butcher album cover optional because all my albums are worn-out.
Tom | 4/18/2007, 12:55 pm EST
It’d be on iTunes in a heartbeat.
Oddjob | 4/18/2007, 12:48 pm EST
I’d definitely make sure they were never sampled for any half-ased crappy rap song. I’m talking to you, Danger Mouse & Jay-Z.
Nikkidoo | 4/18/2007, 12:41 pm EST
I’d sell them to Paul or Ringo or whoever would never allow them to A) be used in anything commercial and B) never be owned or touched by Michael Jackson ever again.
Oddjob | 4/18/2007, 12:39 pm EST
That Vegas Show is awesome- did you actually see it?

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