John Lewis Christmas Advert

I think this is the worse John Lewis ad. ever. JL doesn't even sell pianos! You probably guess that I'm not a fan of Elton John.

brilliant advertising and lets face it who does have the money for a piano?

Maggiemaybe if this site had a 'like' button I would use it for your post.

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

Where is the 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” !!

ooops sorry , meant nitpicker accuser not snowflake accuser

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!

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

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......

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 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!)

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

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

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

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

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!!

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?

Crap
Clunky
Cringeworthy
Cheesy
Cheerless
Crucifyingly...awful.

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

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

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

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

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.

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