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This Note's For You
Last night's 24 (which was very good, by the way) included commercials featuring songs by Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. I can't remember hearing either of their songs in commercials before.
In fact, one of my favorite concert memories was seeing John Mellencamp at the Meadowlands around 1990. He came out for his encore and said, "For our encores we've usually done some Motown songs, but so many of those great old songs are commercials now. So we're going to do a song by a man who's never sold his songs for commercials." And the band played "Like a Rolling Stone."
Now I don't really have a problem with artists licensing songs for commercials. And I'm not even sure what the Dylan song was, though it was unmistakably Bob-- probably from 'Time Out Of Mind." Van Morrison's 'Moondance' in an Infiniti commercial was pleasant enough, to be sure, but Bob grousing though a Victoria's Secret commercial was positively jarring. Just guessing, but I bet somewhere Bob's laughing.
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
3:41 PM
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