An Apple Record on iTunes

“Baby Blue” by Badfinger is available on iTunes from today, the proper 1972 Straight Up-era recording, the first appearance of any Apple record on iTunes save “King of Fuh” which, since it never made a commercial release, reverted to Brute Force). You can only purchase it as part of the soundtrack to The Departed, but it’s a very curious development since Neil Aspinall is said to be very conservative with licensing and would have to have had a substantial incentive to cooperate, even through third parties, with a company which Apple Corps is in litigation with for trademark violations.