John Lewis Christmas Advert

The posters themselves admit to the ad making them cry (whinge)

Iam64
Whinging, where I come from, means crying.

More criticism of John Lewis from Jay Raynor in the Guardian. He may have a point? My brother always took my favourites

www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/15/whos-wrecking-christmas-quality-street-john-lewis-pick-and-mix?CMP=share_btn_link

GabriellaG - you accusing others of whinging is a real gransnet Classic.

I'm not crying, but I do think the message is good.
But then we have two musicians in the family - so going through the plonking, the screeching violin in the early days etc was worth it.

Liking it more each time I watch it. It's heading the JL website. Of course.

Margs not marks wouldn’t it be lovely to have an EDIT BUTTON sigh has anyone ever suggested this to GN ?????

That child has no idea of the piano lessons, with scales, he's got in front of him.

What a lot of whingers on here.
If a cardboardy ad featuring a camp clown can make women cry...I give up.

Crap
Clunky
Cringeworthy
Cheesy
Cheerless
Crucifyingly...awful.

I suspect JL will do very well with their sales of keyboards. One of our grandchildren seems to have the musical gene. The ad prompted his mother to search on the village facebook page for piano's for sale.
It's so sad the music (and drama, art etc) are being taken out of the curriculum. If this ad prompts a few parents to encourage their children to play an instrument, or possibly buy a science kit, riding hat, swimming goggles - you name it, anything to encourage hobbies in our children, how can that be a bad thing?

There's been some comment elsewhere that it's part of a trailer for a film about him, loved the ad though. Saw him last year in Vegas and he was a-maz-ing!!

Great ad - will bring tears to the eyes of every grandmother with a piano-playing grandson - seen it theee times now and tears each time - such clever advertising

I liked the advert but does Elton really need all that money for doing it - what an impact it would have given if he had donated it to charity

I expect other retailers will supply loads of tat if that's what some people want.
No-one has to go to JL and buy a keyboard/piano

erstwhile pub piano player
have you ever heard him play in concert Margs?
Obviously not.

I was a big Elton fan in the 70's- he was great live but never much liked Your Song.
I don't really see that the ad. is much to do with Christmas apart from the fact he gets a piano as a present.
Very disappointed.
GoneGirl- I think the BoRap one was an ad for the film
( which is brilliant BTW!)

Wasn’t Gareth Malone the one who was trying to encourage music in schools don’t ever remember Elton John doing anything or being involved in schools

Marks don’t forget the years of cocaine useage along with the dress up and wigs

I've still to work out how erstwhile pub piano player and joke wig wearer Elton John somehow deserves a knighthood just for singing one re-hashed song at Princess Diana's funeral......

Much better to buy a keyboard, even if all the family clubs together, than a load of tat.

Brilliant Lisagran

The teaching of music has been subject to cut backs in schools so the more we can encourage tomorrow's musicians the better!

ooops sorry , meant nitpicker accuser not snowflake accuser

www.johnlewis.com/search?search-term=yamaha&s_afcid=af_78888&tmad=c&awc=1203_1542363814_4b5d2c89b4c97242634f200054e903fc&tmcampid=48

Apparently JL now selling pianos “inspired by our advert” !!

Where is the snowflake accuser ? ?

Hated it, really hated it. More like an ad for Elton john and not at all Christmassy, certainly not what we have come to expect from John Lewis as a Christmas ad. Plus changing the theme tunes to several programmes, must have cost J L a lot of money. Can't believe it has made me so uptight, after all it IS only a TV advert, but it has made me feel this way