TV commercial for Nike "Revolution"

TV commercial for Nike "Revolution"

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Film & Animation

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• TV
• commercial
• for
• Nike
• Revolution

[SalmonelaKid]

If it's allowed to happen, every Beatles song ever recorded is going to be advertising women's underwear and sausages. We've got to put a stop to it in order to set a precedent. Otherwise it's going to be a free-for-all. It's one thing when you're dead, but we're still around! They don't have any respect for the fact that we wrote and recorded those songs, and it was our lives.

“”

— George Harrison (November 1987)

[il927]

I gotta say, I'd rather have beatles songs in movies and commercials than the stupid fucking shitty covers.

[40ozLoLife]

beatles are my religion don't commerlize them

[andmaketherain]

Don't you know that you can count me out (in)...

[YoGoober26]

@misscarly12 i totally agree with you, i am a michael jackson fan and a beatles fan, and it always makes me wonder why MJ didn't just sell the catalogs back to the beatles and create a profit

[DesktopDarts]

“I was one the people who reacted violently the first time I saw the [1986] Nike commercial [using the Beatles song “Revolution”]. I think I was in a hotel room somewhere, and I was jumping up and down! I was real pissed off. Goddamnit, I was mad, you know, because when John Lennon wrote that song, he wasn’t doing it for the money. And to be using it for any corporate thing… it made me angry.”

- John Fogerty, quoted in Rolling Stone, December 10, 1987

[misscarly12]

I heard that Michael Jackson is involved in this. I mean not this commercial. he is involved w/ stuffs that made The Beatles really upset like the buying of Lennon-McCartney catalogs. Paul didn't want it and the outcome that it only landed to these commercials being used as the theme song. I am a big MJ fan but I really don't understand MJ's intentions. The Beatles are STILL the best artist in the world. But..

[GLASSONION97]

"Songs like Revolution didnt mean a pair of sneckers they mean Revolution"

Paul McCartney

[nutlil2]

damn in remember this comercial from when i was a kid!

[ilre4eva]

@willissippi I just thought that someone should speak some truth here since everybody was bitching about Jackson and very conviently were not mentioning that Paul McCartney did exactly the same thing before Jackson. I haven't seen anyone talking shit about McCartney for doing the exact same thing.I hate this double standards attitude and this whole hypocricy from people.That's all. Now, i'm returning to my important things.

[willissippi]

@ilre4eva You're the one that made such a big deal about it. Re-read your first post, then my response, and finally your retort.

[ilre4eva]

@willissippi It's a fucking song for God sake. A song, nothing more nothing less. Jesus this much dramma over a song. People are reacting over this as if someone commited sacrilege or something. It's simply a song by a band, a very iconic one, yes but only that. Get over it. There are more important things to this world than the use of one song on a commercial.