Mike Ragogna: A 40th Bite of the Apple

This year, on August 26th, hopefully, we all will be invited to Apple Corps' 40th Anniversary gala, celebrating the release of its first single. Can you believe it was 40 years ago? It's an impressive achievement, this label's character lines etched by some very interesting life adventures involving the most important band of all time along with a dozen or so of its closest signings. Here's the two-minute catch-up: Apple's earliest business incarnation was The Beatles Ltd., an entity that the Fab Four established back in 1963. After the group phased-in another business set-up called Beatles and Co., in '67, The Beatles Ltd. morphed into Apple Music Ltd. -- the company's managing director, the late Neil Aspinall, having credited Paul McCartney for the name, inspired by René Magritte's green apple paintings. A year later, the... [read full story]