Queues Form For 'Octopus's Garden'
ITUNES customers are today lining up outside the Apple store for the chance to be the first to download Octopus’s Garden.
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Technology commentators have frequently pointed to the unavailability of the 1969 classic as the major weakness of the iPhone compared to its rivals.
Microsoft’s ‘Zune’ system has long been hampered by the fact it cannot play Bill Wyman’s solo albums.
Iphonologist, Tom Logan, said: “Without Ringo Starr’s sort-of singing, the iPhone has been little more than a touch-screen prick-magnet.
“But it can now finally become the definitive must-have item thanks to the availablity of A Little Help From My Friends and that garbage at the end of the White Album.
“This was what many had hoped the future would look like – people walking around listening to a drunk scouser on a giant Tic Tac.”
The release of the Fab Four’s back catalogue sees the end of a 10-year copyright dispute between Apple, the Beatles record company, also called Apple, and an apple.
Beatles fan Wayne Hayes said: “Including vinyl, cassette, CD, laserdisc, DVD, VHS and Bluray this will be the eighth time I’ve bought the same albums because if I didn’t I wouldn’t be a real fan and the nightmares would start again.
“It’s not so bad when it’s Revolver but you probably do want to take a good long look at yourself when you’ve got eight copies of Magical Mystery Tour knocking about the place.”
