{"id":1638,"date":"2012-05-08T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/qmad-menq-paid-record-price-for-possible-first-ever-of-beatles-song-for-tv\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:05:36","slug":"qmad-menq-paid-record-price-for-possible-first-ever-of-beatles-song-for-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/qmad-menq-paid-record-price-for-possible-first-ever-of-beatles-song-for-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mad Men” Paid Record Price for Possible First Ever of Beatles Song for TV"},"content":{"rendered":"


It doesn\u2019t seem like a lot, but the producers of \u201cMad Men\u201d may have paid a record price for a single master recording for a TV show. Sources tell me that Lions Gate and AMC paid \u201cupwards of $250,000\u2033 for use of \u201cTomorrow Never Knows,\u201d a John Lennon song from the Revolver album. I n order even to get the song, Sony\/ATV\u00a0 Publishing had to get Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono to sign off on it. Unless some TV addict can challenge it, this is considered the first time a Beatles master recording has been approved for use on a regular TV series.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not surprising that it came off. \u201cMad Men\u201d has won the Emmy four times in a row for Best Dramatic Series. It\u2019s also, right now, in 1966, the same year Revolver was released. Last week, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) whistled \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand,\u201d but if there was payment for that, it was just to Sony\/ATV. The real coup here was getting the master recording. Beatles records are rarely allowed for use in movies or TV shows.<\/p>\n

Last year, Sony paid over a million dollars for \u201cBaby I\u2019m a Rich Man\u201d to be included in \u201cThe Social Network.\u201d But several years ago, the Beatles rejected a request to include \u201cHey Jude\u201d in \u201cThe Royal Tennenbaums.\u201d And so far the few master recordings they have licensed have been secondary songs\u2013 no \u201cYesterday,\u201d \u201cLet it Be,\u201d Long and Winding Road,\u201d or \u201cCome Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Update: Three Beatles songs may have been licensed for partial use on \u201cWKRP in Cincinatti\u201d in the early 1980s. But the price then was a bargain as part of an overall deal with the Beatles\u2019 prior publisher.<\/p>\n

Source: Forbes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn\u2019t seem like a lot, but the producers of \u201cMad Men\u201d may have paid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}