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15 Strangest Musician Appearances in Commercials

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These days it's not enough for musicians to simply make music.

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.

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bamagirl99

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!

January 10 2013 at 1:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jojo5150patti

He's only human, besides business is business

January 10 2013 at 12:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
camrsss777

Steve- 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.

January 09 2013 at 11:04 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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wtolsma

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 +1 rate up rate down Reply
Steve-a-rino

This 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?

January 09 2013 at 9:54 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
SCuppek

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 +2 rate up rate down Reply
janka51

i would be ashamed too, a grown man wearing an ear bob

January 09 2013 at 8:04 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Dad

Ringo? For God's sake he is the luckiest man in the world... who cares?

January 09 2013 at 7:33 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
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awpaguy

He 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 -3 rate up rate down Reply
Mary M. Revis

It's OK Ringo..we forgive you baby because..well....you're Ringo! *smile*

January 09 2013 at 7:16 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Papillon

that 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

January 09 2013 at 6:51 PM Report abuse -3 rate up rate down Reply
res36

LAME

January 09 2013 at 4:37 PM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply