A new wave of "Beatlemania" swept the world this Wednesday with the departure to the sale of the entire remastered catalog of the Fab Four, as well as the video game that marks the entrance of the most influential group in the history of music in the digital age.
Forty years after its dissolution, nostalgic and young quartet from Liverpool fans gathered in London shops, and retail sites on the Internet to capture the 14 official albums digitally remastered and the anticipated video game "The Beatles: Rock Band ", where they can emulate their idols.
"I've been here since three o'clock in the morning. I intend to spend 800 pounds (1,300 dollars, 900 euros) for each box (collectors) and the game," said one of his followers as always, Alan Harrington, 59, who led the tail of a hundred people formed in front of the HMV record shop in Oxford Circus in central London.
Five million units were launched to meet demand announced, which should catapult back to the Beatles to the top of the charts, sparking a Beatlemania as 1965.
Fans of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had spent years demanding that this reissue, considering that the first CD version of the comprehensive discography of the group debuted in 1987, in the infancy of this technology was not the height of the vinyls.
Although all disks can be purchased separately, the complete collection consists of his 12 albums, the soundtrack of the film "Magical Mystery Tour" and the compilation "Past Masters", which includes all the singles that were not on the LP.
For purists, the engineers worked for four years to polish the sound and improve the original quality of the recordings, they conceived one seconds box with all the work recorded in mono.
Pending official figures, the executive of the company EMI Ernesto Schmitt told the Financial Times-that the first 50,000 boxes of the collection in mono-costing 170 pounds (280 dollars, 193 euros) - had been exhausted Britain.
And by the 1200 GMT, the box in stereo led the charts Amazon.com.uk music, followed in third place for the album "Abbey Road", the latest joint effort by the Beatles released in 1969.
For bookmakers, however, the highest selling should be "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".
The success of this project could be favored by the current impossibility of the internet to legally download songs from the Fab Four, for fear of piracy, despite rumors to the proximity of an agreement between EMI and Apple to make the catalog available in iTunes.
Meanwhile, the video game "The Beatles: Rock Band, which is expected to be one of the best sellers in the world in the months before the holidays, is a way to begin to fill this gap.
Offers players the chance to see and hear the band members playing their subjects -45 initially included in the game, but the supply will grow in the coming months, then join the band replacing one in guitar, bass, drums or singing.
"For me, the most interesting is that it will present the Beatles music to people who maybe never heard it play all the time, do not listen to the radio and have a great record collection," said Paul McCartney , a legendary group of survivors in an interview with music magazine NME that went on sale Wednesday.
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