Using John Lennon For Advertising Is Wrong...

[Murph 536]

Just sayin'.

 

I know it's happened before, and it'll probably happen again.

 

Just seems wrong to me.

[blindboygrunt 288]

What's he selling?

[BluesKing777 240]

Imagine all the people

 

Eating Kelloggs Corn Flakes....

 

Yoo Hoo Ooh Ooh.

 

 

 

 

BluesKing777.

[Salfromchatham 235]

Well.. at least Dylan wont ever

[E-minor7 221]

I'm sure it can't happen without Ono's thumbs-up nowadays.

 

There was a rather odd one where Lennon and Hendrix (plus a third person) was involved, must have been from the 70s.

I posted it here a long time ago, but can't find it in my archive.

Well.. at least Dylan wont ever

Well, Dylan advertised for some car-brand no many miles back, didn't he.

Or was it for the entire American automobile-industry. Remember him being pretty serious involved in that job.

 

Wait a minute, , , that might have been a fake stand in.

 

(Third edit)

Then again, I'm not sure.

Edited April 4, 2019 by E-minor7

[scriv58 21]

http://www.citypages.com/music/bob-dylan-selling-out-his-8-best-product-endorsements/481354261

 

Everything is for sale and all the time...you facebookers surely realize by now with all the negative press that YOU are the product.

[BDuke 9]

Well.. at least Dylan wont ever

well didn't Budweiser use Dylans' Blowing in the Wind recently?

[Salfromchatham 235]

I'm sure it can't happen without Ono's thumbs-up nowadays.

 

There was a rather odd one where Lennon and Hendrix (plus a third person) was involved, must have been from the 70s.

I posted it here a long time ago, but can't find it in my archive.

 

Well, Dylan advertised for some car-brand no many miles back, didn't he.

Or was it for the entire American automobile-industry. Remember him being pretty serious involved in that job.

 

Wait a minute, , , that might have been a fake stand in.

 

(Third edit)

Then again, I'm not sure.

 

 

IBM last year

[scriv58 21]

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8494830/budweiser-super-bowl-ad-bob-dylan-2019

[scriv58 21]

Neil Young stirred up the sponsorship pot back in 1988 with this video, as you greybeards will remember

[blindboygrunt 288]

Dylan did a Victoria's secret ad a few years ago

But who could hold that against him

[QuestionMark 131]

The irony of John Lennon on this one is that if Kelligg’s Corn Flakes used a song of his, John Lennon used Kellogg’s Corn Flakes theme song idea of Good Morning Good Morning as the basis for developing his own song on Sgt. Pepper called “Good Morning Good Morning”. Known Beatle trivia. (Feel free to check Wikipedia about Lennon’s Good Morning Good Morning song).

 

So if Kelliog’a obtained the rights to a use a Lennon song, there is a bit of cool irony in that, that I would think all involved parties knew about. Which in many ways is kinda cool.

 

Re: Dylan. Besides the recent Blowin’ in the Wind commercial use, Dylan appeared in a Chrysler ad a few back, during the SuperBowl. Dylan always spoke in terms of his music career. It was listeners who spoke of it being something else. Yes? (He’s now also selling a book, artwork, bourbon, besides his always having management to book him gigs, get others to record his copyrighted material, sell his musical archive scrapbook, keep him signed to an iron-clad record deal, etc.

 

I personally do not see anything wrong about this stuff. Times change, music can still be an art, but it can also be a business to market the art, and in today’s world where the music business is thoroughly changed from what it once was, whatever it takes to creatively get good music out to people (and new listeners) as long as it’s honest

, , is what it is. When was it ever not also a business besides being a cultural thang? (Cut-throat dishonesty/egotism, etc. in the music business is a whole other subject that I will not defend. But, that is not the topic under discussion.). Just my opinion.

 

QM aka “ Jazzman” Jeff

Edited April 4, 2019 by QuestionMark

[EuroAussie 192]

Actually bothe Dylan and Lennon appeared in Apples 'Think Different' Ad - luckily it was one of the great ads of our generation.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEarBzelBs

[blindboygrunt 288]

 

🙄

Edited April 4, 2019 by blindboygrunt

[EuroAussie 192]

 

🙄

 

Perfect match.

[j45nick 460]

 

 

That is WAY too funny!

 

"And it burns, burns, burns.."

Edited April 4, 2019 by j45nick

[Hall 123]

Yea, guess I'll suspend all my endorsements.

[j45nick 460]

Wasn't our EuroAussie in a Gibson print ad a few years ago?

[EuroAussie 192]

Wasn't our EuroAussie in a Gibson print ad a few years ago?

 

They needed a look for white collar types ..

 

[blindboygrunt 288]

They needed a look for white collar types ..

 

 

 

That's not you is it ?

You might've put a decent shirt on for the photo shoot

Edited April 4, 2019 by blindboygrunt

[j45nick 460]

That's not you is it ?

You might've put a decent shirt on for the photo shoot

 

 

Hey, he resembles that remark.

[Boyd 76]

Well.. at least Dylan wont ever

 

https://www.heavensdoor.com/whiskey

[vw1300 5]

Guy Clark did some voiceovers for Taco Cabana commercials a few years back - he says he liked the tacos, so why not?

 

https://lonestarmusicmagazine.com/qa-guy-clark/

[scriv58 21]

Perhaps the main difference is that John Lennon is not doing this of his own volition (being deceased), whereas all the other performers mentioned here did sponsorships by personal choice.

[Murph 536]

Perhaps the main difference is that John Lennon is not doing this of his own volition (being deceased), whereas all the other performers mentioned here did sponsorships by personal choice.

 

BINGO !

 

That's what makes it wrong. If he'd done it, it would be one thing, but he didn't.