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15 Strangest Musician Appearances in Commercials
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If you're Jay-Z you buy an ownership stake in a basketball team, if you're Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein you make a television show like Portlandia, but if you're a rocker just looking to be shown the money there's one way to go -- advertising.
In honor of these wallet-first thinkers, we've rounded up the weirdest appearances of musicians in commercials. Surprisingly, insurance hawking is big, while cars and food products are even bigger.
Admittedly, only a few of ads hold a candle to Snoop Dogg and his recent commercial for pistachios. However, their premises are still kind of... nuts.
Click to launch the gallery below:
- Ringo Starr & The Monkees
- Michael Jackson
- MC Hammer
- Iggy Pop
- The Game
- John Lyndon
- 50 Cent
- Bon Jovi
- David Bowie
- The Rolling Stones
- Dusty Springfield
- Duran Duran
- Peter Murphy
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Devo
- Musicians With Other Skills
- Rural Alberta Advantage
- Rick Ross
- Drake
- Jack White
- Girl Talk
- Gene Simmons
- Peaches
- Sinead O'Connor
- Tom Araya
- Nick Harmer (Death Cab For Cutie)
- Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
- Dropout Musicians
- Ringo Starr
- Frank Sinatra
- Jay-Z
- Cher
- Eric Clapton
- B.B. King
- Davy Jones
- Angus Young
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elton John
- Eminem
- Ja Rule
- John Lee Hooker
- Barry White
- Kurt Cobain
- Mary J. Blige
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Steve Earle
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- Heavy D, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- C+C Music Factory, Blossom
- Juliana Hatfield, My So-Called Life
- Issac Hayes, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- The Flaming Lips, Beverly Hills 90210
- Violent Femmes, Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Bif Naked, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The Breeders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Marilyn Manson, Clone High
- No Doubt, Dawson's Creek
- The Shins, Gilmore Girls
- Modest Mouse, The O.C.
- Death Cab for Cutie, The O.C.
- Sonic Youth, Gossip Girl
- Tegan and Sara, 90120
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It was a GREAT commerical! I laughed my head off the first time I saw it!
He got the band back together....unfortunately it was the MONKEES....not the Beatles that showed up! Hahahaha! You GO, Ringo! I STILL love you!
He's only human, besides business is business
January 10 2013 at 12:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySteve- the homeless liberals always squeal when someone gets paid for working,
Put Liberals on the moon and they'll go extinct, They can not make it on their own.
Gosh was't it a liberal who put the 1st man on the moon? I could have sworn it was John F. Kennedy who started it and LBJ who finished it? Sounds like two liberals to me.
January 10 2013 at 2:45 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyThis is hilarious. 90 percent of the people in the world know Ringo. Who knows any of these ***holes who are dissing him? What have THEY done that matters to anyone.
And, for the idiots who don't know a thing about the Beatles, Ringo was the ONLY one of the bunch who was a trained, professional musician. They've sold zillions of recordings and their fan base is huge. What have you pukes got that compares? Not a thing, of course - which is the only thing all critics are famous for - absolutely nothing! And don't give me your 10-cent musical evaluation. The Beatles gave us what we needed when we needed it and billions of us love every note. What have you done that's anywhere close to that?
Wow! It's too bad the posts relating to Ringo are so derogatory. Obviously not Beatles fans and that's ok. Paul & John, in past interviews, would comment on how after writng, then, while rehearsing a particlular song, they would let Ringo go with his own riffs and how those riffs would change the original sound and ultimately how they recorded the song. I guess you have to be a fan and appreciate all their contributions.
January 09 2013 at 8:18 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Replyi would be ashamed too, a grown man wearing an ear bob
January 09 2013 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyRingo? For God's sake he is the luckiest man in the world... who cares?
January 09 2013 at 7:33 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyHe was lucky. Of the 4, he was the one with little to no talent. he should thank his lucky stars every night that they even gave him a job. With no talent how he keeps making money is a mystery to many of us.
January 09 2013 at 7:40 PM Report abuse Permalink -3 rate up rate down ReplyIt's OK Ringo..we forgive you baby because..well....you're Ringo! *smile*
January 09 2013 at 7:16 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Replythat guy is full of himself.
Just to play bumbo he thinks he is the greatest.
The pizza commercial fits him very well
If wasn't for the beatles he was going to play bumbo in Africa.
Noel
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