A little while ago, it seems aeons, there was a thread about advertising 
(it all "Started with a Ki" - sorry, started with my query about the
Ford video that BHM did) and who had done what.  That started me 
thinking, and like a supertanker, fully laden of course, once started it 
would take a country mile to stop that wondrous event.

Imagine, if you can (isn't that the start of Roger's version of "HFE"?) 
the adverts that Queen could have made, individually, or corporately if 
they could have been persuaded.

Miners (or max factor, or any other cosmetics firm) would have given 
their right arm to have had Freddie (who wouldn't say most of the girls 
in million part harmony) advertise their nail varnish - "You can have 
any shade you want - as long as its black!" (Plagiarism is OK in this 
context).

Roger would have been a dead cert for the Colgate "Ring of Confidence", 
or even that brand of shades (can't remember which it was, but they were 
seen as the epitome of cool).

Brian would have been the natural for L'Oreal and their "Fixing Spritz" 
- Ultimate Hold (stand back girls, its only make believe!)

The one product(s) that John couldn't have advertised would have been 
Durex (if you're Australian I don't mean your version of "Sellotape"), 
or the "Family Planning Clinic".  He and ?Veronica? would have, 
conversely, been absolute sitters for "Predictor".

Some time ago there was an ad for tights (Aristoc, I think) that 
featured a young, nubile lady with legs up to her armpits, who's lower 
limbs acted as the hands of a clock.  It doesn't take much imagination 
to change the scene a little, to have "Time" as the backing music and to 
have FM pronouncing the benefits of Aristoc's new all flexible body, in 
the new harlequin design.  Similarly, in the video clip where FM is 
rolling along the line of horizontal ballet dancers, he could be 
stressing the benefits of "Mum RollOn Deodorant".

For the ladies, it isn't to short a journey of the mind to the recent 
Citroen Xsara ad where Claudia Schiffer so elegantly denudes herself 
from frock into flimsies, replace CS with RT slipping quietly and 
seductively into the car, driving off and him leaving his "Y-fronts" 
behind on the ground and the car (or "Y-fronts") will sell like the 
proverbial 'hot cakes'.

Brian, ever the subtle salesman, would still be selling "Fixing Spritz" 
in that scene from "extended Vision" where he sdrawkcab loop eht fo tuo 
sived (Dives out of the pool backwards) with water cascading from his 
silken black locks.

John, on the other hand would be selling cold showers.

See what I mean?  Ad(ventures) of the mind or what?

TTFN