Apple announced on Tuesday that the Beatles catalog has arrived on iTunes -- and with it, a catalog's worth of bad Beatles puns employed by the media's coverage. (By about 30th time I saw it used in a headline, "Come together" became cringeworthy.)
With apologies to their well-meaning authors, I've collected some of the worst, mostly from U.S. outlets.
Warning: Here comes the puns! Read 'em and (gently) weep:
Help! arrives: Apple lands Beatles for iTunes
-- Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple, Beatles Opt To 'Give Peace A Chance'
-- Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Beatles-Apple deal: Here comes the sun
-- Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Apple: Get Your Beatles Eight Days a Week via iTunes
-- Rj Middleton, NBC (Bay Area)
Apple and the Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
-- Heidi Moore, New York Times DealBook
The Beatles and Apple: The Long And Winding Road
-- Ian Paul, PC World
Apple and the Beatles work it out
-- Sydney Morning Herald
Apple brings Beatles to iTunes: 'It has been a long and winding road,' Jobs says
-- John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News
All together now
-- Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Apples Come Together
-- Liam Allen, BBC News
The Beatles' en on iTunes - yeah, yeah, yeah
-- Daniela Elser, news.com.au
Beatles, iTunes come together
-- Agence France-Press
Steve Jobs no longer Eggman as Beatles hits iTunes
-- Kelly Fiveash, The Register (U.K.)
Buy Me Love: Beatles Songs Reportedly Coming to iTunes
-- Juli Weiner, Vanity Fair
We can work it out – Apple v Apple Beatles iTunes dispute ends
-- Tim Glanfield, BeehiveCity.com
Revolution for Apple: Beatles Come to iTunes
-- ABC News Radio
Apple, Beatles Finally Make Beautiful Music Together
-- Michael Musco, mediabistro.com
Beatles for Sale! Apple's iTunes Scores Rights to Fab Four Catalog
-- Austin Carr, Fast Company
Beatles For Sale ... on iTunes
-- Casey Johnston, Ars Technica
Apple iTunes and The Beatles Come Together, So What?
-- Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine
And this one, turned in by "Amrit" on the music blog Stereogum, was quite possibly the only pun-employing Apple-Beatles headline that actually worked:
Beatles, iTunes Come Together Right Now Over Zzzz
-- Stereogum
