Or National Dumbass Brand Month? Feels like it as the ad world is still busy responding to the public outcry regarding the GM suicide robot/Snickers/ATHF bomb scare advertising. Worse, even those topics will be pushed aside by the inevitable Anna Nicole hourly updates headed our way next week. That’s unfortunate. Not because a light was shed on the all-too important issue of suicide. Not because America’s homophobia came out of the closet and was thrown right the fuck back in either.No, it’s because all those things pushed the issue of Black History month and the ad industry issue of diversity to the side. There’s another Gaye we can be talking about too. (Ok, bad pun, kill me.) It’s a little something that hopefully brings the discussion back around to recognizing accomplishments – not poor agency stunts. Check out this rendition of the National Anthem by Marvin Gaye. Found it on Thomas Dolby’s blog, who has an interesting story about it as told to him by Stevie Wonder. It was the night before the four keyboard freaks – Howard Jones, Herbie Hancock, Dolby and Wonder – played the 1985 Grammy Awards.
Tags: Marvin Gaye, Snickers, GM robot commercial, Grammy Awards
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That was pretty incredible. Hard to believe it incensed network officials, as Stevie Wonder relates.
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