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) It Is" that was given a very limited UK release in 1986 on a mail order cassette promotion that Apple and The Beatles did not authorize and was commercially released in 1988 on "Past Masters"; and the 2000 edit of "Day Tripper" from "1". "Only a Northern Song" was first mixed into stereo and 5.1 surround for the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" album in 1999 and a differently-edited stereo mix of "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" appeared on "Anthology 2" in 1996. "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" is the only track left in The Beatles'