The Beatles: Rock Band album DLC priced, dated, detailed

Harmonix has revealed approximate release dates, pricing, and track listings for the first three downloadable albums to hit The Beatles: Rock Band's Music Store. Abbey Road will arrive first on October 20 at a price of $16.98 (1360

), with individual tracks for $1.99 (160

). Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will follow in November, and Rubber Soul will arrive in December. Full track listings are after the break, in case you aren't intimately familiar with Beatles albums.

If you purchase the full Abbey Road album, you'll have the option to play the B-side medley (from "You Never Give Me Your Money" through "The End") as one continuous track. Along with this news, Harmonix confirmed that the "All You Need is Love" DLC track (160

) will be available as a timed-exclusive for Xbox 360 on the game's September 9 launch date.
Abbey Road:

"Come Together"
"Something"
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
"Oh! Darling"
"Octopus's Garden"
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
"Here Comes The Sun"
"Because"
"You Never Give Me Your Money"
"Sun King"
"Mean Mr. Mustard"
"Polythene Pam"
"She Came In Through The Bathroom Window"
"Golden Slumbers"
"Carry That Weight"
"The End
"Her Majesty"

Sgt. Pepper's:

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
"With A Little Help From My Friends"
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
"Getting Better"
"Fixing A Hole"
"She's Leaving Home"
"Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite"
"Within You Without You"
"When I'm Sixty Four"
"Lovely Rita"
"Good Morning Good Morning"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
"A Day In The Life"

Rubber Soul:

"Drive My Car"
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
"You Won't See Me"
"Nowhere Man"
"Think For Yourself"
"The Word"
"Michelle" · "What Goes On"
"Girl" · "I'm Looking Through You"
"In My Life"
"Wait"
"If I Needed Someone"
"Run For Your Life"

Reader Comments (88)

Your icon looks like a Scribblenauts Link.

So this is somehow better than Activision putting out disc based games like GH Metallica and Van Halen? Just saying, the hate on GH is a little over the top. This is just as bad in my opinion.

No Guitar hero Metallica came with 49 songs and only 28 are from Metallica. So yeah this is way better.

Better bacause it is The Beatles.

Also because Harmonix has a lot more attention to detail than Activision. The videos, style, background animations, etc are all true to the band and their fans.

A lot of attention to detail went into the game that would be seriously lacking in the GH series.

Yeah man, I don't know where all the GH hate comes from. Activision is great with there products, in fact I downloaded the new GH Aerosmith DLC yes...oh wait, they've completely forgotten about that game and any plans to support it haven't they?

I like how I get voted down for stating my opinion. Gotta love gamers!

it WOULD be nice if they could include an MP3 track for your PMP with that purchase.

Imagin plugging the PMP into the 360 and syncing your rockband songs to the device.

Why not?

Man, they're gonna make lots of cash from DLC.

Yes I can play Norwegian Wood! WIN!

Man I am getting sick of this trend. I pay $60 for a game and they cut half the features and re-sell them to me. With the media sizes today, either 9.8 GB dual layer DVDs or 25 GB blu-ray discs, there should be no reason for DLC in a game like this.

It continually amazes me the different ways companies think up to rape the consumer. I think the worst Iwas the costumes in SF4, those should have been unlockable plain and simple. Pretty soon you will have to pay per play just like an arcade game.

If they were to add all these songs into the game the price would go up a lot. Licensing a song (especially the Beatles) isn't free.

If they included the whole Beatles discography in one game and charged $300+ for it you would be bitching anyway. This at least gives people the option to buy the songs they want.

I'm just happy they're putting out this much content. Great job HMX!

Okay maybe this game was a bad example. You gotta admit that DLC is getting out of control though.

@Autobot... why? Are they in short supply or something? Personally I'd say $2 is par for the course... why do you wish to pay more per song?

The beatles are CRAP! Give me some good rock or metal!

Taste in music is generally subjective. Except in the case of The Beatles. The Beatles are great, your opinion doesn't count.

it's sad how wrong you are

He's right though, the Beatles are awful. Why even bother making a game for them, it's going to be by far the easiest and most boring music game since they play boring simplistic music.

Agreed!

nor yours =)

@AoE

Beatles songs cost more to license than your typical RB DLC song. I'm 99% positive Harmonix isn't making as much back per song with these, that's why it's surprising that they are keeping the $1.99 price. Lucky for them, they will probably sell a lot more of them than they do normal DLC.

I wonder when The Rutles: Guitar Hero is coming out...

"you'll have the option to play the B-side medley (from "You Never Give Me Your Money" through "The End") as one continuous track."

That's all I could ask for. Although, really? Charging us for "Her Majesty?" The song is 30 seconds. Yikes.

I don't think anyone is going to want Her Majesty without having the whole album anyways. But I don't know...some people are weird I guess.

Can't wait to play that riff in "The End" so I can rap over it.

I'm gonna die gonna die one day
Cause I'm going and going and going this way
Not like a roach or a piece of toast
I'm going out first class aint going out coach
Rock my Adidas never rock Fila

I do not sniff the coke, I only smoke the sinsemilla.

Fuck off.

DAVID YOU'RE SO CLEVER

Whoa, chill it's just the Beastie Boys...

I wonder if Harmonix will only release albums, or singles as well.

By singles I mean maybe a little from from one album, a little from the next.

I doubt it. It'll probably stay album and individual purchases.

Every time that "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" comes up I will be singing the William Shatner version.

jst the full album of Sgt. Pepper's: for me then maybe one or two from the others :0

Thanks Harmonix for not releasing Rock Band 2 in Europe for the Wii.
We still cannot download you awesome DLC.

@Ordeith:
Agreed that that would be awesome, though the tracks in Rock Band are masters sooo how about not shitty MP3 quality and Apple Lossless/FLAC please :)
or even the wav files for later converting.

Can't wait for Sgt. Pepper!

“She's leaving home.
Bye-bye.”

Yes. And in our opinion, your opinion sucks.

What about the Wii? On Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour, the Wii is unable to purchase full albums, only individual tracks. At that rate, all these albums will be significantly higher priced than the pack price...and I won't be able to play the B-Side as a whole. Can someone clarify?

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