The Beatles’ Long and Winding Road to Digital

It has been 50 years to the day since The Beatles released their first single.

It was a funny story actually. If it was up to producer George Martin (different from George R.R. Martin, who wrote Game of Thrones), the first release from the group, now widely heralded as the best rock and roll songwriters of all time, would have been a song they did not even write.

Martin pressured the group to release a song called “How Do You Do It?” a cover track. The Beatles insisted on a quick ditty they had written, entitled “Love Me Do.” The song, which would be considered incredibly “pop” by today’s standards, was “artistic” for a 1962 recording (maybe it was the harmonica). 

Though musical standards have changed significantly in the last 50 years, to this day, you cannot stream The Beatles’ music on Spotify.

“We want to get them on the service, that’s the bottom line. We just need to convince them of the benefits,” Spotify spokesman Graham James tells Mashable. “We are huge fans of The Beatles. They are icons.” READ MORE

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