The Beatles: Rock Band the "Rock Band" concept to Apple Corps, the music production company created by the Beatles, and its key shareholders Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono. Initial meetings were arranged with the shareholders using an early prototype of the game to garner their interest in the title. One stipulation that the Apple Corps shareholders required of Harmonix was that the game feature songs spanning the band's entire career. Harmonix subsequently created a more complete demonstration that used examples of music and artwork that they envisioned for the game. The five-song demo, which included an early build for "Here Comes the
The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) EP. All CDs replicate their original album labels as first released, from the various Parlophone Records variations, to the Capitol Records label (for "Magical Mystery Tour") and the UK Apple Records side A label from "Yellow Submarine" through "Let It Be", and with the side A & side B Apple labels for discs one & two respectively for "The Beatles". For "Past Masters", disc one uses a mid-1960s Parlophone label design and disc two uses the (side A) Apple label design. Each of the albums except "Past Masters" includes a mini-documentary, mainly drawing from "The Beatles Anthology" (with a few