Hits from The Beatles have finally joined the chorus of ringtones available for mobile phones.
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View PhotoThe Beatles -- from left, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney -- pose during the play rehearsal of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream in London in 1964. Hits from The Beatles have finally joined the chorus of ringtones available for mobile phones, with catchy 30-second snippets from more than two dozen of the band's top tunes available exclusively on iTunes
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Beatles fans held back by police as they await a London appearance by their idols in 1965. Hits from The Beatles have finally joined the chorus of ringtones available for mobile phones, with catchy 30-second snippets from more than two dozen of the famed 1960s British rock band's top tunes available exclusively at Apple's online iTunes shop
Catchy 30-second snippets from more than two dozen of the famed 1960s British rock band's top tunes are available exclusively at Apple's online iTunes shop, a message said Wednesday on official website thebeatles.com.
"Fans around the world can, for the first time, purchase ringtones for the Beatles' 27 UK and US #1 hits, exclusively on iTunes," the message announced.
"You can even assign your favourite tracks to your favourite people," it continued.
The ringtones were priced at $1.29 each and could be downloaded for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. The list of Beatles songs included "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Let It Be."
The Beatles arrived on iTunes in November of 2010 after what late Apple's Steve Jobs described at the time as "a long and winding road".
A decade had been spent getting the music of "Fab Four" -- Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr -- released in digital form for Apple's wildly popular mobile devices.
The vast catalog of Beatles hits had been held back for years from Internet download sites amid legal squabbles, although their songs have long circulated as unlicensed downloads available from unlicensed peer-to-peer networks.
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