Fifty years is a long time, even by the standards of the rise and fall of nations, but in the ever changing world (in which we live in) of pop culture both Bond and the Beatles should long ago have been passed over to the custody of historians for safekeeping.

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They also appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in the early 1960s, not long after The Beatles did the same.

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The group started moving with a bit more alacrity following the 2007 death of Neil Aspinall, the long time Beatles confidant who ran Apple Corps, for many years.

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The story of the Beatles song catalog is long and tangled.

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"Calcutta has had a long love affair with The Beatles and if that can make people abide by rules, then nothing like it, " he said.

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Moreover, Apple Corps is also planning a long-needed overhaul of the Beatles CD catalog with remastered sound, something that might hold greater appeal for older listeners than downloading.

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That means that all content can be brought in, from some kid playing acoustic originals in her bedroom to long time music streaming holdouts like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

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The long-running TV series has been narrated by the likes of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan -- not bad for an unassuming kid's show whose setting is based on the windy and remote Isle of Man, which floats between Scotland and Northern Ireland in the middle of the Irish Sea.

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It goes back a long way, back to the early days of variety shows (did you think the Beatles were singing live on those shows?) and is, whether you recognize it or not, weaved throughout our musical entertainment history, for better or worse.

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