QUICK TAKES - June 3, 2009

The Beatles: Rock Band video game coming in September will feature 45 songs from the Fab Four’s catalog of more than 200 original studio recordings, among them “I Saw Her Standing There,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Day Tripper,” “Back in the USSR,” “Here Comes the Sun” and “Get Back,” according to new details about the game released this week.

The announcement, made at Microsoft’s E3 Conference in Los Angeles, also included the first specifics about the content of the project, which will let users follow the group from its early days playing the Cavern Club in Liverpool through its final public performance in 1969 on the rooftop of its Apple Corps headquarters in London.

-- Randy Lewis