Those wacky remaining ex-Beatles. Looks like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are suing EMI for some unpaid royalties. Now, you’re not going to see me carping on these two and bitching about them needing more cash, because I like money a lot, too, and more is always better these days. But I am thinking it might be a good idea to take these guys, along with Neil Aspinall, to court and sue them for not remastering the damned Beatles catalogue after all this time. Look, if bands like Steely Dan and The Rolling Stones and artists like Elton John can go through two or three reissues of remasters, then it’s high time The Beatles got cleaned up, too. The Yellow Submarine songtrack CD is all the proof you need about how great that stuff sounds after being through the digital washer in comparison to the old crappy CDs from the late ’80s that they’re still selling.
