With a splashy exclusive agreement to show up in their own music video game behind them, fans of the Fab Four can be forgiven for shouting: “You say you want a [digital] revolution.”

Having largely rebuffed the digital era until now, the Beatles’ first major digital foray will hit store shelves next autumn after Apple Corps, which controls the band’s business affairs, struck a deal with Viacom’s MTV Networks, developers of the hit-selling Rock Band franchise.