See a trailer for Beatles: Rock Band Sgt. Pepper

Here it is.

Corps, Ltd., MTV Games and Harmonix, the world’s leading developer of music-based games and a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today released a new gameplay trailer for The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) that will be available in its entirety for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles™: Rock Band™ Music Store starting November 17, 2009.

Beatles: Rock Band review

Here's one from the Chicago Tribune, featuring some details on various treats that can be uncovered whilst playing the game.

Achieve a three-star rating, and you'll unlock photos from the group's early days in the Cavern nightclub to sessions in the Abbey Road studio in later years.

Unlock enough photos, and you'll release a mini-movie, such as the band's first Christmas album for fan club members in 1963.

Many other treats abound. Progress far enough into the game, and you'll find recordings of the bandmates chatting between takes.

New Beatles: Rock Band TV commercial

Creepy...

Ringo admits he's a crappy drummer--on Rockband

Ringo Starr is always getting (very unfairly, in my opinion) slammed for being a bad drummer. But when it comes to playing the fake little plastic drums in the Beatles: Rock Band game, he admits himself that he's not so hot:

The drummer reckons he is barely able to play along with the computer game because he cannot concentrate on the on-screen cues.

Starr, 69, told the New York Times he had tried to play Rock Band only once: "It's impossible. I cannot watch the line going down and play at the same time."

But don't let this feed the myth that Ringo's not a great drummer. Yeah, he's no Gene Krupa. But, as the other Fabs have said, there was no better drummer for the Beatles' music. Listen to his great fills throughout the band's canon and how his drumming always serves the song. That, my friends, is what good musicianship is all about.

Beatles: Rock Band track list

According to game blog Worth Playing, here's the official tracklist for The Beatles: Rock Band, out Sept. 9:

Singles:
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
Revolution
Don’t Let Me Down

Please Please Me:
I Saw Her Standing There
Boys
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Twist and Shout

With the Beatles:
I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day’s Night:
A Hard Day’s Night
Can’t Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale:
Eight Days a Week

Help!:
Ticket To Ride

Rubber Soul:
Drive My Car
I’m Looking Through You
If I Needed Someone

Revolver:
Taxman
Yellow Submarine
And Your Bird Can Sing

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Good Morning Good Morning

Magical Mystery Tour:
I Am The Walrus
Hello Goodbye
The Beatles (White Album):
Dear Prudence
Back In the U.S.S.R.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Birthday
Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine:
Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road:
Come Together
Something
Octopus’s Garden
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun

Let It Be:
Dig a Pony
I Me Mine
I Got a Feeling
Get Back

Love:
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows

Three (at least) Beatles albums to be available for download via Rock Band game

A lengthy New York Times article on the upcoming release of the Beatles: Rock Band video game reveals this tidbit:

...while Harmonix sells most Rock Band downloads in the form of individual songs completely removed from the context of their original release, the downloadable Beatles music will be presented in the form of the band’s complete albums (although people will still be able to buy individual songs from the records). The first three albums scheduled for release are “Rubber Soul,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road.”

Beatles: Rock Band packaging and instruments pics

Here's a look at the various packaging of Beatles: Rock Band items. The game is out Sept. 9.

The "software only" edition of the game.



Limited Edition Premium Bundle, which includes the game and John and George's guitars, Paul's bass and Ringo's drum set.



Paul's Hofner bass included in the Limited Edition Premium Bundle



Ringo's drums, included in the Limited Edition Premium Bundle.



John's Rickenbacker guitar, available in the premium bundle or separately





George's Gretsch guitar, available in the Premium Bundle or separately





Images of the Beatles with game instruments:

Beatles Rock Band second trailer

Former Fabs had impact on Beatles: Rock Band

Game developer Christ Foster talks about the role of Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison on the new video game based on their music:

They were really creative partners throughout the project. They were involved in picking and approving the song list, the venues we went into. With the dreamscapes, they saw storyboards of all the material, and gave feedback on whether or not they felt like those interpretations supported the songs in the way they wanted."

That wasn't all, though. "They really kept us honest on whether we were capturing the spirit of the band," continued Foster. "When you know who the Beatles are, and you know the joy in their faces when they play, you have to capture that on-screen. [...] They were really good at keeping the standard high."

New trailer for Beatles: Rock Band game

Here's another trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band game.

Beatles: Rock Band video trailer

Video: Paul and Ringo pitch The Beatles: Rock Band game

Instruments added to official Beatle: Rock Band site

You can now see guitars and Ringo's drums added to the "Ed Sullivan Show set" on the teaser site for Beatles: Rock Band.

Beatles: Rock Band to include Ed Sullivan stage

This famed stage set from one of the Beatles' Ed Sullivan appearances will be featured in the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band video game. Check out the game's official site here.

Beatles: Rock Band Hofner bass revealed

Here's a look at the Hofner bass replica that will be included in the limited edition bundle of the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game.

Beatles: Rock Band guitar pictures

Here are pics of the aforementioned guitars for the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game:

Details on Beatles: Rock Band instruments

Not only will people be able to play along with the Beatles once the new Fabs-based Rock Band game is released, they'll be able to do so on replicas of the band's instruments.

According to various sources, items available will be replicas of John Lennon's Rickebacker 325, George Harrison's Gretsch Duo Jet for $99 each. These fake instruments won't be included in the "special edition" of the game, which comes with a replicas of Paul McCartney's iconic violin-shaped Hofner bass and Ringo Starr's bass drum with Beatles logo.

And, according to Kotaku, the game will feature the ability to attach up to three microphones so players can take a stab at replicating the Fabs' harmonies.

Y'know what, though, why not learn to play a real guitar? For the price of the game and assorted extra plastic guitars, you could buy an Epiphone Casino, the guitar John, George and Paul owned from the late 1960s on and used on the sessions from everything from "Rubber Soul" through "Abbey Road."

You will never be cool playing a toy guitar, man.