Mad Men paid $250,000 for The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows  8th
May 2012 | 23:56  Mad Men paid $250,000 for The Beatles'
Tomorrow Never Knows  Track from 1966 album Revolver  Mad Men
got very trippy last Sunday. During the final sequence of the
episode titled Lady Lazarus (broadcast 6 May), 1960s advertising
executive Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) tried to come to grips
with youth culture by listening to Tomorrow Never Knows, the
psychedelic track that closes out The Beatles 1966 album,
Revolver.  "It was always my feeling that the show lacked a
certain authenticity because we never could have an actual
master recording of The Beatles performing," Matthew Weiner, the
creator and show runner of Mad Men, told the New York Times.
"Not just someone singing their song or a version of their song,
but them, doing a song in the show. It always felt to me like a
flaw. Because they are the band, probably, of the 20th century."
To license Tomorrow Never Knows, Lionsgate, the studio that
produces Mad Men, sure didn't