Still, today’s announcement that the Beatles’ Apple Records music label will be releasing some of its albums — by artists other than the Beatles — for digital download this fall only serves to remind us that you still can’t buy Abbey Road on iTunes.

When will you? I assume that at some point this summer, Apple (AAPL) will announce a press conference/product launch for early September, as the company often does. And then various outlets will insist that Steve Jobs must be planning a Beatles announcement at said event, as various outlets often do. Maybe this time they’ll be right.

Meantime, worth noting that the announcement from EMI doesn’t mention iTunes, or any other online retailer like Amazon (AMZN), by name. Does that mean the albums won’t actually be available on iTunes, after all? Unlikely. But something for Apple conspiracists to gnaw on until October, when the albums are supposed to be released

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Well, I was just relaying the news that I read, so no once can accuse of saying false statements.

Anyway, “Apple has denied all claims that the Beatles catalog is set to be made available through the company’s iTunes platform. A spokesman even called the claim “unsubstantiated speculation.”"

The news came out last Friday suggested that unnamed sources “close to Sir Paul McCartney” had confirmed that the Beatles catalog would be available online though iTunes and other legal services “within months.”

When people started to ask question on Apple Corp, the “no comment” statement only fuels their belief that the news is true not counting Paul’s statement on Billboards.com last November:

 ”It’s down to fine-tuning, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be happening next year, 2008.”

But since Apple Inc. denies this, the story stops here.

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Reports in the British press have Paul McCartney inking a $400 million deal to put the Fab Four’s back catalog on Apple’s iTunes music store.

I always thought that the two Apple (Apple and Apple Corp) have and issue in using the same name for a company (though I’ve been lazy and never research anything about it). Now I know that they had an agreement that Apple (computers) that they will stay away in the music business… Apparently the ‘music business’ only pertains to physical media, so MP3s and other electronic is a permitted and legal without any infringement.

If this deal pushes through, I say not only will the songs in the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band be a big hit but Revolver too and Abbey Road (my personal favorite) and White Album.

McCartney—who is currently embroiled in an expensive divorce from former model Heather Mills—would receive some of the revenue, as would surviving Beatle Ringo Starr, the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as record company EMI and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which controls publishing rights to many of the Beatles’ biggest hits in an arrangement with pop star Michael Jackson, who bought the ATV catalog for $47 million in 1985.

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