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To the anonymous strangers on the surrounding tables in the cafe we probably looked like two old friends having a long overdue catch-up o... -
My first guitar, April 1963. Regrets, I've had a few...and aside from all the many thoughtless things I've said and done throug... -
60 years ago today - the fifth of my annual birthday portraits in front of the family radiogram. This morning you find your roving reporter ... -
It strikes me that I haven't posted any old family photos in this series for a while. To compensate, here's a real favourite of mine... -
There had been singles, lots of them, but until then, any LPs that came my way were borrowed ones, hastily taped on my portable cassette pl...
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Some questions spring to mind:
1. Who on earth thought of using Scratch to sell Guinness?
2. Where was this ad ever shown?
3. Di it increase sales?
4. What music do the good folk at Guinness listen to?
5. Where can I get a nice cool Guinness right now?? Shame I've stopped drinking!
The guy who pitched the idea to the Guinness board of directors must have had magnificently honed powers of persuasion to get it approved. God knows what they thought when they saw the footage!
Online dictionaries should dispense with definitions beneath the word 'surreal' and henceforth just post this clip by way of explanation.
Well I hope he made some good money out of it and a free supply of the black stuff!!
Inspired!
I feel like I've just entered some topsy turvy parallel universe (many, many degrees out..) watching those. Wacky. But, next to red wine, Guinness is my drink of choice so it gets my seal of approval anyway!
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