John Goes Digital
EMI and iTunes have announced that they started offering didgital downloads of John Lennon’s solo albums earlier this week.
The digital retailer is offering the eight albums Lennon recorded between 1969 and his murder in 1980 in addition to collections such as “Anthology,” “Milk and Honey” and “Working Class Hero.” For the first 30 days, exclusive video content will be included with the albums “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” “Sometime in New York City” and “Walls and Bridges.”
Tracks, which carry no digital rights management software, also will be available via iTunes Plus, Apple’s higher-fidelity offering, for $1.29 per song.
On the first day, his live recordings of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and “I Saw Her Standing There” plus the 1974 hit single “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” were the top sellers.
