Beatles "Revolution" 1988 Nike Air Commercial 

You are not alone

awful shameless paedophile, so proud of his perversions as to outwardly admit it on live television. twice. and people are still in doubt. maybe doubt is not the right word when the truth is literally spoken by the guy who did it. delusion. its a delusion to see white MJ as anything but a billionaire pedophile.

Lmao

​@@whyyoulittle4537 I see what you did there

Green Pillow Well Michael Jackson Sold it to Nike, When MJ bought the rights to the Beatles Catalogue

Native Flutterby Nails nope Yoko did this, she let nike use this song in the commercial, michael had nothing to do with this

@@nousinosegoesfrogvlogdabyo5313 No, it was Yoko who later (1992) authorised the use of John's 'Instant Karma' for the Nike ad directed by David Fincher - which actually was brilliant. This one isn't very good.

[no u si] nosegoesfrogvlog/dab youngster yoko was outraged by this ad what do u mean

@@riomckay428 no she was fine with it because it was good branding. That’s the only reason the lawsuit didn’t go through. All 4 Beatles had to let it through but Yoko ono said no (as she was representing Lennon) because it was a good way to get young people to hear the songs.

McCartney had a chance to bid on the catalog, but didn't. He thought Michael would let him have his songs because they had been friends.🙄 Willy nilly...😏...good grief.

McCartney owned Buddy Holly publishing rights...he sold some of Buddy's music to Buick for an ad campaign. ..Hypocrisy much???🤔

@@vickis2657 Did he use them for commercials? Buddy Holly had already died when McCartney purchased them.

@@vickis2657 Michael Jackson sold out a long time ago

It should be noted that the songs for sale were solely by the Lennon/McCartney firm. Harrison published his songs with his own company Harrisongs. McCartney wanted to buy the songs with Yoko paying 50/50 but Ono was slow to respond so MJ went ahead and ended up buying them.

LMAO

lennon never died

Blame Michael Jordan for that.

Nothing like the Instant Karma ad. What does a song about starting a Revolution have to do with buying Nike shoes? What’s the connection?

@@uscman lol, i bet by that they wanted to say to us that their pair of snickers are revolutionary..

Loved your album

@@briananddrago5981 same

@giftbsc5561 .....i suspect not because what no one seems to want to discuss is that YOKO was the mastermind behind all of it....

@@krowta2062 ....oh she was JUST like that ....telling MJ that she needed to have something for her son SEAN the whole bit....

@@krowta2062 ...i think not....and Michael gave wonderful press conference showing unconcern about what people think about what he does with his catalog...

@@krowta2062hawaii part ii part ii album cover spotted

.....she was the one who instigated the whole thing to begin with....but very few people want to talk about that....

She’s the one who passed on retaining the rights to John’s songs and allowed MJ to gain possession in the first place. Paul wanted to buy them back, allegedly asked Yoko if she wanted to go in as 50% partners in the sale, she allegedly declined, and MJ swooped in after contacting Paul’s lawyers and learning they weren’t pursuing the sale. Blame Yoko again.

They didnt own the rights to their song at the rime Michael Jackson sold the use of this song to Nike which caused vivid reactions from the rest of the beatles because of the reasons you brought up

I only like the Instant Karma ad as it was well edited and made better than this garbage!

It makes sense,. Lennon’s songs carry a strong message of empowerment lytically and sonically. That’s the exact message that Nike wanted. Like buy our sneakers and you’ll be empowered. Paul is a great songwriter but his music doesn’t have that.

Bit late I know but how many ads play great songs that newer generations have not heard?

Mj died addicted to pills and alone 😂😂😂 Karma got him in the end

Paperback Writer I think the commercial is the prefect representation of what the baby boom generation had become in the 80s. They sold out their ideologies for corporate greed they originally hated. The song “revolution” being used in a shoe commercial is the yuppie culture in a nutshell.

Not sure Paul or Yoko could have been trusted not to sellout to the capitalist pigs.

So why didn't they?? I was hearing Paul knew it was up for sale.

superduperboyx - It’s complicated but Paul wanted to buy back their catalog for 40Million Dollars and asked Yoko to split it - so 20 Million a piece... Yoko didn’t want to do it. Paul had the money but was also possibly concerned that he would look bad with some or all of John’s Publishing belonging to Paul. I’d like clarification because I think he only wanted the Northern Songs part of ATV PUBLISHING whereas Jackson actually bought a vast publishing company featuring many other songs by many other artists- about 4,000 songs in all if I’m not mistaken. When they owned their own publishing in the 60s they never controlled their own music as they only owned about 40% of Northern Songs... John 20% and Paul 20%. Paul may have had a few extra shares when Northern Songs went public in the late 60s. Dick James was a majority holder and sold Northern Songs to ATV without telling them... Legal... but not the nicest thing to do to your Golden Goose. John and Paul sold all their Publishing in 69’...

Paul didn't want it but Yoko yes

Exactly

Well eminem grave him a taste of his own medicine

jajaja

DeeZee75 this is the problem. the song completely goes against this ad. the whole point is to be different and isn’t about shoes whatsoever. terrible ad

Nike sucks

No

Vete a la mierda

Nah don’t be angry because he was a better musician

@@ronaldreagan1068 and a better businessman

@@ronaldreagan1068 Paul is better musician than mj bruh

@@HugoKaiju536 lmao u saying the man who stole black music for half of his career is better than the man who made Dangerous. Beatles don’t deserve to be known as the best band of all time because they def aren’t. Queen probably does.

Nike sucks

Child-labor bullcrap

Same, Nike sucks

Lol

No, his true legacy was being pedophile

No! It was Too Tall Jones!

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