Video: 'Beatles "Revolution" 1988 Nike Air Commercial'

(Tuesday, July 28, 1987) — A shoe company that began using a Beatles song earlier this year in a highly publicized television advertising campaign was sued today by the Beatles’s music company.

The suit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, charged that the shoe company, Nike Inc., “wrongfully traded on the good will and popularity of the Beatles,” by using the John Lennon-Paul McCartney song, “Revolution,” in its advertising.

Note: Nike stopped running the ads early in 1988, and the case was settled out-of-court in 1989 on terms that have been kept secret since.