Saturday 2 December 2017

Work Advent Calendar 2017 Day 2: adverts, 1980



This is here because it almost entirely comprises a completely different version of the Woolworths advert to that we've had before - no Harry Secombe, for one - and the traditional curtain raiser to the festive season comes with a cracker of an arrangement. The Roy Castle-voiced Everybody Needs Woolworths campaign, of long extension leads and Binatone cassettes fame, had been big that year so he was brought back for the supersized festive tradition extolling the virtues of "the Beatles back on MFP", while Woolies perennials Nimmo, Cuddly, Windsor, Stewpot and, um, Anita Harris (who we think that is on female vocal lead but aren't sure) make their cameos. As a bonus, the Olympus Trip advert with David Bailey, Bryan Pringle from the Heineken My Fair Lady advert and a post-Scum, pre-Quadrophenia Phil Daniels.

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