Friday, March 6, 2009

MADONNA - REMEMBER THIS? THE INFAMOUS PEPSI COMMERCIAL - 20 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK....


Twenty years ago this week, Madonna's Pepsi commercial featuring "Like A Prayer" was shown worldwide just once, and then pulled by Pepsi after Madonna's own video for "Like A Prayer" was premiered later that same week:
It was, the TV voiceover promised us, not to be missed. The Material Girl was to put the fizz into Pepsi's campaign - for a fee of $5m.
The premiere of Madonna's "Like A Prayer" in a two-minute commercial was so anticipated that the commercial had advertisements on national tv, promoting its debut - 8.12pm on Thursday 2, March, 1989.
But within 48 hours of the much-hyped worldwide premiere, the company pulled the ad, and it was never shown again.





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