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Buy your Beatles rockband now! Or to those who pre-ordered… can’t wait till it’s morning right? Get it now!

Happy Birthday John Lennon!

Here’s a latest promo for The Beatles Rockband before it officially become available in September 9, 2009!

In a 30-second clip that we’re not exactly sure came from this decade, MTV Games/Harmonix preview upcoming music/rhythm game The Beatles: Rock Band by way of a big party on Abbey Road. No, we don’t mean the street itself, we mean that the enormously famous album cover got turned into a big ol’ 30-second party in celebration of the upcoming game. Other than a somewhat creepy faux John Lennon around the halfway mark, this commercial provides yet another reason to be more excited than ever for the day that the Dreamcast turns 10.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/15/the-beatles-rock-band-execs-say-yoko-ono-gave-the-designers-he/

Harmonix has issued a clarification of the statements through its forums, saying that quotes were “mischaracterized by some in the press” and the development team was “tremendously grateful that she gave us the gift of her attention.” We’ll update this post further if we hear more from Harmonix or MTV Games on the subject. (Thanks, James!)

The late John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, is notorious for a number of somewhat less than pleasant experiences related to The Beatles’ career. According to Wired, she’s still offering a controlling hand in The Beatles’ affairs — notably, The Beatles: Rock Band. “She gave the designers hell,” said Paul DeGooyer, senior VP of electronic games and music at MTV.

Harmonix exec Alex Rigopolous chimed in, saying that Ono “held our feet to the fire” and asked for changes to things that had long been finished. “We were like, ‘Oh, gee. Thanks.’ It would have been nice to know that six months ago, but yes, ‘Thank you very much.’” Though we didn’t get a chance to ask during our interview with Harmonix this past week, we doubt that Ms. Ono will be appearing in The Beatles: Rock Band in any form when it arrives this September.

“Now and Then” (also known as “I Don’t Want to Lose You” or “Miss You”) is the name given to an unreleased composition by John Lennon. It was first recorded in demo form in 1978 and was resurrected in 1995 as a third possible reunion single by Lennon’s former band, The Beatles, for their 1995 autobiographical project The Beatles Anthology.

It was written by John Lennon in the late 1970s, around the same time as “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love“. The unfinished piece of music was originally recorded by Lennon in a demo form at his home at the Dakota Building, New York City, circa 1979.

In January 1994, Paul McCartney was given two tape cassettes by John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono that included home recordings of songs Lennon never completed or released commercially. The songs on the tape included the eventually completed and released “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love”, in addition to two other songs “Grow Old With Me” and “Now and Then”. In March 1995, the three surviving Beatles began work on “Now and Then” by recording a rough backing track that was to be used as an overdub. However, after only two days of recording, all work on the song ceased and plans for a third reunion single were scrapped permanently.