Guinness Adverts s/d

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Only the other day I was wondering 'what were Guiness adverts like before they brought Rutger Hauer in??'

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The bloke walking down the street going "I'll have a guiness, I'll have a guiness, I'll HAVE.. a GUINESS!" then ordering the "usual".

I remember loads. There was one featuring a bloke having a crisis in a pub and he had to get a special counsellor who coached him "Reapeat after me....ness...agin.....ness..agin..ness-agin-ness-agin-a guiness!". There was one using Louis Armstrong's It's A Wonderful World. All the really old ones used to have toucans in. I can definitely remember one from when I was a nipper (late 70s?) where the toucan was round someone's house and somebody asked it something like 'who won the FA Cup in 1962?' and it said 'Bolton Wanderers'.

You must remember Carling Black Label! Especially the one which stretched over about three different adverts. I can't remember exactly, but I think it started off with cowboys for some reason, then you thought the advert had finished and it was two women talking about washing powder or something in a supermarket BUT THEN THE COWBOYS TURNED UP! Oh, the fun.

What about Whitbread? 'The best best needs no etiquette'. There was a whole song, featuring the line 'now that snake in the grass, was a pain in the neck'. When I was about 9 my whole school thought that was hilarious.

The previous campaign "I'll have a Guinness, I like Guinness" was called "Friends of the Guinless" I think.

My favourite Guinness ads were designed by Abram Games, but I suppose that's just me.

http://www.banningandlow.com/EN/100006605.html

Marvellous.

Heh, it was that advert that got me into Arab Strap!

In my first ever trip to London, in 1994, I spent two months in a basement flat, not going outside and watching Wimbledon on TV. I was shocked at how good all the advertising was, especially the Guinness spot that starts in a suspiciously brown-hued outer space and zooms in through galaxies, stars, rings of Saturn, down into the atmosphere of Earth, through clouds, towards continents and past spires of ancient buildings, coming to rest on a pint of Guinness sweating comfortably on a balcony, with the implied threat that the camera might just start moving again, into the pint of beer and its bubbles, which become galaxies, etc. I think they did the same advert in reverse as well, and with different music.

The best Guinness advert is probably that one Tracer mentions, if that's the Louis Armstrong one, because it makes me think of Diana Rigg, who I fancy.

In my first ever trip to London, in 1994, I spent two months in a basement flat, not going outside and watching Wimbledon on TV. I was shocked at how good all the advertising was, especially the Guinness spot that starts in a suspiciously brown-hued outer space and zooms in through galaxies, stars, rings of Saturn, down into the atmosphere of Earth, through clouds, towards continents and past spires of ancient buildings, coming to rest on a pint of Guinness sweating comfortably on a balcony, with the implied threat that the camera might just start moving again, into the pint of beer and its bubbles, which become galaxies, etc. I think they did the same advert in reverse as well, and with different music.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Though I have no taste for beer at all this is probably my favourite advert ever