Rumor: Beatles on iTunes…really, for real, they mean it this time

If the heiress of John Lennon is to be believed (that’s Yoko Ono)—and as Cult of Mac suggested back in August—then tomorrow’s special event might finally bring the Beatles to iTunes.

Yoko’s comment made a brief appearance on Sky News (link no longer works) and then quickly vanished thanks to the powers that be. The only remaining evidence is thanks to some quick eyes at 9to5Mac and a partial Google cache.

I usually believe that rumor removal requests tend to represent facts, but you just never know. And besides, it’s almost kind of funny that the Beatles aren’t on iTunes yet, anyway. By the time they finally are, no one will need it, we’ll all have the CDs already.

Just to balance it out a bit, The Financial Times is reporting just the opposite.

“Conversations between Apple and EMI are ongoing and we look forward to the day when we can make the music available digitally. But it’s not tomorrow,” Ernesto Schmitt, EMI’s global catalog president, told the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson.

So will the Beatles make an appearance on iTunes tomorrow? The only way to make sure they do is to pick up one of their digitally remastered albums set to be released tomorrow. Though they just might make it to the iTunes Store as well. Check back with us for Appletell’s live blog of the press event for the announcements as they happen.