or some other expensive car...

Boy, she was another extremely talented, but tortured musician, who died prematurely.

that is disgusting. the same thing ahppened with John Fogerty's callsic anti-American rant, "Fortunate Son." to which he doesn't own the rights. so it was sold to some truck company.
the song says "some folks are born, made to wave the flag, man they're red white and blue," before going on to the punchline "it ain't me, i ain't no fortunate one."

the ad just uses the "some folks are born, made to wave the flag, man they're red white and blue," part, leaving the exact oposite impression of the song's meaning.

fucking sleazebags.

Licensing the right to a song that you then record yourself is one thing - Michael Jackson owns the publishing rights to the Beatles song catalog so he makes the decisions about who can record Beatle music and he profits from that.  Not the Beatles or their estates.

However, icensing the right to a RECORDING is a very different proposition and something that has rarely happened with a Beatle recording. Imagine isn't a Beatle recording though, it's a Lennon recording. I do think Yoko has the rights to the recording though it could be the record company. Whoever it is has only said yes fewer than five times or so over the years.

Creepy that this was allowed.

People say no to money all the time.  Abba was offered $1b to reunite and do a year long, world wide tour. That's $250 million for each of them for a year's worth of work. They said no.

Okay, this makes sense- you can get temporary rights to all sorts of stuff for very little money ($500 for a year). The owners will let you use their music in formats where you won't be making money (festivals, etc) in hopes that you'll come back at a later point and actually license the music itself once you have the capability of making money.