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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:24 am Post subject: Have you been ad by old rockers? |
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ONCE they were the wild men of rock — hotel-trashing frontmen for the age of rebellion and anarchy.
Now they are fronts for cosy advertising campaigns.
They’ve gone from Hard Rock to hard sell and have swapped “F*** off” for “BOGOF” — Buy One Get One Free.
Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper are plugging insurance, Johnny Rotten has promoted butter and Lemmy from Motorhead is selling crisps.
Whatever next? Axl Rose as the face of Werther’s Originals?
Led Zeppelin promoting Stannah Stairlifts (to Heaven)?
Nowadays the once bad-ass rockers are happy to take the corporate buck.
MARTIN PHILLIPS looks at the worst offenders and gives them a sell-out rating. . .
Ozzy Osbourne
Reality TV star, celebrity dad and the face of World Of Warcraft multi-player computer games.
SELL-OUT RATING: Two out of five
Alice Cooper
Restaurateur, golfing celebrity, actor, radio DJ and advertiser for insurance company Norwich Union’s £10million change of name to Aviva.
SELL-OUT RATING: Three out of five
Lemmy
TV and film actor, with a liking for self- parody and voice of a video game baddie.
Advertised Kit Kat and Walkers Crisps.
SELL-OUT RATING: Three out of five
Johnny Rotten
Former I’m A Celebrity contestant, presenter of TV wildlife shows and advertiser of Country Life butter.
SELL-OUT RATING: Four out of five |
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The Sentinel

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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I think Osbourne deserves a far higher rating than 2 out of 5, maybe a 4 out of 5 would be better??
I think the previous ad for "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" with his look-a-like pushes the rating higher.
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