NEW YORK, June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that The Beatles Channel, the new
channel created in collaboration with and fully authorized by
The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd., will feature special, exclusive
guest DJ sessions with a variety of musicians, actors, celebrities
and more—all of whom will host extensive specials playing their
favorite Beatles music.
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder will
host the first guest DJ session on SiriusXM's The Beatles Channel
on Friday, June 9 at 5:00 pm ET. The special guest DJ sessions will
premiere on The Beatles Channel on Fridays at 5:00 pm ET and rebroadcast throughout the week.
Don Henley's guest DJ session will
premiere on Friday, June 23;
Ron Howard's guest DJ session will
premiere on Friday, July 14; and
Billy Joel's guest DJ session
will premiere on Friday, July 28.
Audio clips from the Guest DJ Sessions on SiriusXM's The
Beatles
Channel:
https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm/sets/guest-dj-sessions-on-the-beatles-channel-siriusxm-ch-18
"The Beatles, not surprisingly, have fans that span generations
and backgrounds, and now our exclusive new channel will allow them
to come in and play their favorite Beatles songs," said
Scott Greenstein, President and
Chief Content Officer of SiriusXM. "The artists, musicians, actors,
celebrities, and super fans will reveal the songs they love, and
the songs that have influenced their lives and their work. What
they choose will be a revelation in itself that our subscribers
will want to experience."
The Beatles Channel, celebrating popular music's most legendary
and influential band, showcases all-things-Beatles with regular and
special programming spanning the history-making careers of the band
and its members: John Lennon,
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The channel explores The Beatles'
entire career including their hits and deeper tracks, live
recordings, rarities, and solo albums, while also spotlighting
musicians who have inspired, and have drawn inspiration from, The
Beatles. The Beatles Channel presents a curated mix of music
tailored to a wide range of Beatles fans, along with a variety of
regular shows and specials. For a full list of programming go
to www.siriusxm.com/thebeatles.
ABOUT APPLE CORPS LIMITED
Apple Corps Ltd. was founded
by The Beatles in 1968 to oversee the band's own creative and
business interests. As part of its management of The Beatles'
entire intellectual property canon, the London-based company has administered the
legendary band's recorded catalogue, with more than 800 million
physical and digital albums sold to date.
Apple Corps has also piloted innovative Beatles projects, which
have become benchmarks for pioneering accomplishment, including the
record-breaking, 30 million-selling album The
Beatles 1, the universally acclaimed The
Beatles Anthology series, the Grammy®-winning CD,
vinyl, digital and streaming release of The Beatles' 13
remastered studio albums, the remixed and expanded Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition,
and in partnership with Imagine Entertainment, White Horse
Pictures and Polygram Entertainment/UMG, the Grammy®-winning 2016
feature documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The
Touring Years, directed by Ron
Howard.
In Apple Corps' first major theatrical partnership, The
Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil® has played
to nearly eight million audience members since its June 2006 opening at the Mirage in Las Vegas. The
Beatles' LOVE also resulted in a double
Grammy®-winning album and a Grammy®-winning feature
film, All Together Now, which details the
fascinating story behind the unique partnership between The Beatles
and Cirque du Soleil that resulted in the creation and launch
of LOVE.
The Beatles debuted for streaming worldwide on December 24, 2015 with the band's 13 U.K. studio
albums and Past Masters (Volumes 1 &
2), The Beatles 1962-1966, The Beatles
1967-1970, and The Beatles 1. The
Beatles' Anthology, Volumes 1-3 music collections
and LOVE album followed on April 4 and June
17, respectively. Songs by The Beatles were streamed more
than two billion times within the first year.
And continuing the commitment to preserving the archives and
legacy of The Beatles' catalogue, The
Beatles' Help!, Yellow
Submarine, and Magical Mystery Tour
feature films have in recent years been painstakingly digitally
restored for DVD, Blu-ray™, and iTunes release.
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