The Beatles are one of the biggest bands in the world and on the 9/9/09, The Beatles' relased their studio back catalogue, remastered and available in two lavish CD box sets, The Beatles In Mono and The Beatles Box Set: Remastered In Stereo. The media have gone crazy for it all over the world and if you type their name into any site they will come up. They have their own website and myspace and have many clips on YouTube. There is a big mood board of picures of them on their website dating form years back to the present day. They are still going strong and have appeared on tv and you can listen to interviews with them on the internet. They are also releasing a video game called The beatles: Rock Band and have lots of memoribilia available such as t shirts, jumpers, hats, boxer shorts ect for the promotion of their new album launch. There have been many news articles on them. The CD they are releasing is digitally re-mastered versions of their UK studio albums, plus key soundtracks and compilations (Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters Volumes I and II), 14 albums in all (over 16 discs). On the same day, The Beatles: Rock Band computer game hits the stores. The Fab Four can be seen (as they so often still are) gracing the covers of a range of popular magazines, including Mojo, Uncut and Radio Times. The BBC are planning a Beatles week, which features a new documentary including what is described as “never-heard-before fragments of conversation”. The clue there is in the word 'fragments’. These newly mined gems include such witty exchanges as Paul McCartney saying, “Don’t be nervous, John” and his partner replying, “I’m not.” I saw a preview of the much heralded documentary, and confess I enjoyed every minute of it. But what I didn’t see or hear was anything new. Cause there isn’t anything. For a group who broke up in 1969 insisting there was nothing left in the cupboard, The Beatles have subsequently released a lot of music, but it has mainly been live recordings, demos and alternative takes. The original Sixties albums are the holy grail, the font of pop culture, when four incredibly talented individuals experienced a kind of collective, accelerated musical growth that untapped all the latent potential of pop. It was a voyage of extraordinary discovery into melody, harmony, lyricism, rhythm, production and more, a moment when youth culture matured into something philosophically and artistically adult. The Beatles were so accomplished and inquisitive they could make the heaviest metal or the subtlest folk, and invent entirely new forms of psychedelic extravagance. It has been voted their best album. The NME website he featured lots of articles on them. Everything that Brian Epstein (the band's new manger) directed them to do was intended to promote the sale of records.