This should be a year that the Democratic Party sweeps to victory. The Democrats have an unpopular Republican war in Iraq to talk about. President George W. Bush is very unpopular in all the national public opinion polls. The Republican brand of less government, lower taxes, and less spending has been badly damaged during the last few years of dubious congressional stewardship. In addition, the next several months are likely to bring the prospect of an economic recession to the country.
Indeed, the reasons that should cheer any Democratic voter’s heart seems to go on and on. The choice of John McCain for the Presidential nomination means that the Republican Party will feature the oldest Presidential candidate in history. In addition, McCain has alienated Republican conservatives and, therefore, the Republican party is not united and less than enthusiastic for the general election in the fall. Also, it is a year that the voters are unimpressed with old time politicians and established political institutions and are interested in change. Both Democratic candidates should appeal to the public’s desire for change in that they are the first black man and the first female running as major candidates for the highest office in the land.
However, the Democrats are engaged in a tedious and increasingly contentious primary election gridlock. Compromised by dubious convention rules, it is an election that never seems to end even though in reality it is already over. Hillary Clinton cannot catch Barack Obama in the number of pledged delegates or popular vote. The Democratic Party will not overturn the will of the primary voter and alienate black voters. So, it is an election campaign that Hillary Clinton has already lost but will not concede. The print and television media use the relative closeness of the race and ambiguous Democratic convention rules to continue the false illusion of a tight down to the wire battle between the two candidates. The end result of all this appears to be stalemate for several more months.
So, every day, the Democratic primary election becomes more personal and contentious without apparent reason. We hear references to Monica Lewinsky’s black dress from the Obama campaign to bring back our memories of the personal failings in office of President Bill Clinton. The dubious speeches of Obama’s retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright seen in print, television news, and You tube underscore the divisive issue of race that has recently entered into the campaign.
Indeed, each candidate’s campaign issues political statements of personal destruction: Barack Obama is only where he is because he is a black man according to Geraldine Ferraro. Hillary Clinton is a monster according to an aide to Barack Obama. Bill Richardson is Judas for endorsing Obama according to James Carville. All of these headlines have appeared in just the last couple of weeks and there is no end to it yet in sight.
This contentious, personal, primary election is also dividing the Democratic Party voter base. Recent exit polling data from the Pennsylvania primary mirror national polling that indicates about 20% of each candidate’s base of support would not vote for the other Democratic candidate in the fall election. A Gallup poll indicates that nearly 30% of Hillary Clinton supporters nationally will not support another Democratic nominee in the fall.
Meanwhile, Republican John McCain looks very Presidential as he takes a foreign tour and raises money for the 2008 general election this fall. Next, he plans to do a national tour highlighting his background and visiting areas in the country where recent public opinion polls have begun to show weakness for Barack Obama. (Blue collar white voters and Latino voters). Of course, McCain will continue to raise money to prepare for the fall election campaign while the Democrats continue to spend millions on their remaining state primaries.
The contrast between the two political parties has begun to show up in the public opinion polling data for the general election campaign in the fall as well. It should be no surprise that the Republicans are the beneficiary. John McCain now leads Barack Obama by ten percentage points in a national match up. This is a reversal of the polling statistics of just one month ago. In addition, McCain has hit his highest voter favor ability rating (56%-Rasmussen) while Obama has just attained his highest voter unfavorabilty rating of (52%-Rasmussen). Polling in many electoral states crucial to a November Republican Presidential election victory also show a movement of voter support to John McCain. If this Democratic stalemate continues for another three months, public opinion concerning each of the Democratic candidates could get even worse.
An unpopular Iraq war and the failing economy are opportunities for a Democratic sweep in the 2008 Presidential election. However, a contentious primary election stalemate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for another three months would continue to hurt the Democratic Party in the fall general election campaign. It certainly does appear that this bitter Democratic primary election stalemate bodes well for Republican, John McCain.
Fall is here, the weather is changing and a lot of great things are happening in the entertainment capitol of the world. With more than 100 shows in town the possibilities are endless. From classic showgirls and magicians, up and coming punk bands or legendary comics, to cirque style acrobats and trapeze artists, Las Vegas offers shows that will delight and amaze everyone. If the nightlife is what you’re looking for Vegas has so much to offer. From traditional casino lounges and cocktail bars to dance-till-dawn nightclubs featuring top deejays, Las Vegas will keep you partying. From lounges to clubs to pubs, the possibilities for a night out in Vegas are endless. Halloween in Las Vegas: Halloween is the time to play dress up. It’s that special time that you can pretend to be somebody else. On Halloween you can be that politician, playboy bunny, French maid, scary creature or whatever you like. The costume is part of it, but in Las Vegas it’s more about the party. Go ahead and let your hair down and party for three days in October. Let Las Vegas be your party place for the best Halloween ever. It’s no wonder Halloween is such a spectacle here in Las Vegas. Nevada was founded on October 31, 1864. Las Vegas celebrates this day every year the only way it knows how – parties across the city. Sporting Events Happening in Las Vegas. If you want to relax in Vegas and take in a sporting event Las Vegas has plenty to offer. You can catch The UNLV Rebels on the gridiron, or take in a boxing match. In November the MGM Grand will play host to the Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto fight. And don’t forget the ever popular National Finals Rodeo that kicks off in early December. Upcoming Concerts in Las Vegas: Las Vegas, with its large number and variety of venues plays host to some of the greatest concerts with the most popular headliners around the world. The ever popular rock band U2 will be performing at The Sam Boyd stadium on October 23 rd. Another great performer Justin Timberlake will also be performing in October. If you like country, the famous duo Brooks and Dunn will be performing at the Las Vegas Hilton Center in December. Whatever it is that entertains you, you can be sure to find it in Las Vegas. Concerts, Broadway Shows, Nightlife, Sports, Gaming, Golf or just a leisure day of sightseeing and shopping, the possibilities in Las Vegas are endless. VegasTickets
After recently re-reading John Braine’s Room at the Top, I went On Chesil Beach, courtesy of Ian McEwan. Without doubt the latter is a masterpiece, whereas the former seems to be a little too reliant on its contemporary setting, its social mores, its finely tuned appreciation of social class to be considered more than “of its time”. Concatenating the two books, however, has made me think a little more about the underpinning thesis of Ian McEwan’s book, that the early 1960s remained an age when sexuality was not discussed, dealt with or even experienced in the more open, liberal manner of just a decade later. In the context of Ian McEwan’s setting and for his characters, this was undoubtedly the case. Memories of John Braine’s 1950s, however, remind me that there might have been room for a different reading.
And so I approached a re-discovery of Braine’s Life At The Top with more than just an interest in the narrative. Of course the book is a sequel, an attempt to recreate the success that had eluded its author in the intervening years. But it is based in the early 1960s, precisely the time when Ian McEwan’s fumbling lovers marry.
Life At The Top is ten years on from its germ. Joe Lampton and Susan are married and have two children. Joe is also firmly ensconced in his father-in-law’s firm, has made a moderate success of his career and, certainly relative to others around Warley, has plenty of money. But as those for whom success seems to be a given, it is necessary to be reminded that, “It’s one thing to get there, and quite another thing to stay there”. And so it is with Joe Lampton. He becomes a councilor – a Tory one at that – and all seems to be made. But then, but then…he’s still our Joe. He still likes his pint, though now it’s more likely to be a scotch, and perhaps Susan is till as naïve as she was a decade before – naïve, that is, until she decides what she wants.
So, obviously, in Life At The Top Joe and Susan’s life together turns sour, even a little bitter. But John Braine’s plot and style always keep the process above soap opera, where character only exists to fuel plot. In some ways, the pair of novels, Room and Life At The Top, is a loose allegory of the experience of the author, himself. In Room he’s an upstart successfully staking his claim, but at a cost in terms of pigeon-holing and confinement to a genre. In Life he’s a known success and is clawing on to its retention.
But after finishing the book two points stand out. The first is a reminder of the apparent sexual liberty enjoyed by its characters. Not only Joe, but also Susan and eventually Norah, not to mention the ailing Mark, are apparently free-loaders. Only Mark’s wife seems to possess the frigidity, perhaps aridity, that Ian McEwan seems to associate with the era. I can remember when Life At The Top was a much watched film. It was seen as racy, even a bit risqué, but not because of what it portrayed, only that it was portrayed. It wasn’t the content that shocked; it was the fact that the content was made public.
On the other hand, if John Braine’s mission had been purely to shock, then the ultimate morality of the outcome would be incongruous at best. Life At The Top is the kind of novel where what happens is crucial, so to reveal the finishing point would detract from the experience of reading the book. Suffice it to say that, in its own way, Life At The Top becomes an affirmation of a given set of values, even if those who want to live by them do not always live up to them.
So I return again to On Chesil Beach and conclude that there may be a greater element of social class – or even stereotype – involved in Ian McEwan’s reading of the mores of that age. A shortcoming it might be, but it detracts in no way whatsoever from the quality of the book. The imagined rules applied to those described, despite the fact that, as John Braine’s Life At The Top reminds us, they might not actually have been rules and certainly didn’t apply to everyone, especially the imagined.
What do Somalia, Long John Silver and the U. N. have in common? The answer, unfortunately, is confusion. Somalia is a regime without a central government. The country would be an Abbott and Costello routine, little more than a vaudeville act in uniforms and machetes, were it not for those machetes. Who’s on first? Better: Who’s in Mogadishu? Let’s move on to Long John Silver, the character that Robert Louis Stevenson cobbled from “Chronicles Of Pirate Life” by Defoe, and muddled with his own hobbled editor, William Ernest Henley, to form a man by turns brave and cowardly, almost good and at times evil. In other words, Silver is a paradigm for modern moral relativity. He is neither very fine nor very foul. I would say that this character is confused. Put him in the Twentieth Century, sic Sartre on him and he would be, nearly, existential. Which leaves the U. N. : a quasigovernmental body that says much and means little or means much and says little. (These are the mixed-up minds that not only put Syria on its Security Council, but also appointed Syria as the capo de capo of the Council in the Presidium. Syria, for those who care about such matters, has been linked to assassinations, the development of nuclear weapons and the aiding and abetting of terrorists. It is a country that should be developing pistachio nuts rather than plutonium. The market, I imagine, is so much better for pistachio nuts these days, as just about every country can do plutonium. I mean if the North Koreans can assemble a nuclear warhead, plutonium must be so last month. You have to be really advanced to grow perfectly green little pistachio nuts. But, I digress . . . Just like the U. N. ) Almost every family has a demented aunt or uncle. We invite them over for Thanksgiving dinner and can’t wait for them to leave. That’s the U. N. It is forever having senior moments and slipping the silverware into its pockets. (See oil for food scandal for example. ) It hardly knows whom to condemn and whom to commend. The U. N. has no difficulty condemning and commending the same countries, sometimes in the same week, sometimes on the same day, sometimes in joint resolutions in which the ambassadors don’t agree why they are agreeing to it. These three befuddled parties are, unfortunately, collectively and cumulatively contributing to piracy along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Somalia has no functioning government and is run by competing warlords, militias and terrorist groups. It cannot provide basic services to its citizens, who are poor, starving and lacking in any education except robbery and murder, and that they have learned through experience. So why blame Long John Silver for this African nation’s calumny? Long John Silver’s confusion of character is our own confusion about his character. He is a pirate, and therefore a romantic character, a swashbuckler, a corsair, mythic by means of movies and literature. Close your eyes and say the word “pirate”, and I guaranty that you do not conjure a ragged starving Somali at sea. The Somalis that attack innocents are not adventurers, and there is nothing admirable about their cruelty. There was little to nothing admirable about pirates a couple of centuries ago. They were killers too. Francis Drake got knighted and became a “sir”. He wasn’t a pirate at the time, but in the service of the Royal Navy, which needed his skill in fighting Spaniards; but there is no need to be overly technical is such matters. Pirates became privateers and privateers became pirates when the mood and the money were right. We are entitled to our myths. They help get us through an otherwise boring day, but we should not mistake myths for reality. Long John Silver and his pirate progeny may be devilish rogues, but the Somali pirates are merely devils. There is no romance in a beheading or a ransom. These are acts of cruelty and cowardice. The U. N. Security Council, in a unanimous vote, passed a resolution allowing foreign navies to combat Somali pirates along the 1,800 mile-long coast of the country. Unanimous? Warships? The U. N. did this? Where then is the confusion? The resolution is limited to Somalia, and a slam-dunk for the U. N. because piracy is a violation of international law. The combating of piracy does not require a permit. Somalia need only invite other countries to enter its territorial waters and the navies can come. The controversy is what did not pass, which countries were left out of the resolution — like, for example, all of the countries on the rest of the African continent. China, Vietnam and Libya, according to the BBC, only voted for the resolution because it will not affect the sovereignty of other countries. Why risk the good will of dictatorships by expanding the resolution to apply to — let us say — West Africa, which is also beset by pirates? And which, as coincidence would have it, has untapped natural resources . . . Here is where all three parties meet at the crossroads. They, thoroughly confused, cannot determine the difference between what is right and what is in their best interests. By way of coda, the Somali government — such as it is (or isn’t) — is fighting Islamic terrorists. The Ethiopians are fighting al-Qaeda in Somalia and helping to prop up the current rulers. The terrorists won’t talk to the U. N. or meet with representatives of the Somali government until the Ethiopians leave. The Somalis are, of late, willing to try this bargain. Of course there may be no need for talks if the Ethiopians leave, because terrorists tend to shy away from talking after they take over a country. They prefer to toss true believers strapped with bombs at dissidents. Terrorists are not confused. They want Somalia, have no romantic notions about pirates and no fear of the U. N. It appears, then, that the only condition worse than confusion is a lack of confusion. Doubloons anyone?©2008 Edward Chupack
If you had to guess the single most important word in advertising what would it be: free, special, discount, sale, new, improved, bigger, better?
So many words have lost their meaning or been corrupted by misuse or abuse that it is not an obvious choice. The words luxury, exclusive, and world class have been rendered meaningless after being applied to everything from eight hundred square foot condos to restaurants that serve microwave frozen dinners. We can’t even rely on light, diet, or low carb to actually describe what’s inside a package.
What advertisers have done is create a hyper cynical marketplace, where the audience for whatever you sell has lost faith in what is being said. The Web with its emphasis on content gives advertisers an opportunity to redeem themselves and to deliver meaningful information to its audience. All Content Is Advertising, All Advertising Isn’t
Some may cringe at the thought but in the final analysis all content is a form of advertising. Content is rarely if ever neutral, even if it doesn’t overtly promote a product or service; content always has a point to make, or an idea, concept, or position to advance. If content doesn’t provide some perspective, some meaningful knowledge, then does it really qualify as content? The same can be said for advertising, if it doesn’t explain, enlighten or engage, it is just noise. What Is Advertising’s Most Important Word?
My vote goes to the simple innocuous word “like:” a nondescript word that carries with it all the conceptualization power you need to create a business identity, to form a brand personality, and to position your product or service in the mind of your audience. A previous article of mine “A Website Without Video Is Like…” uses the power of metaphor to illustrate how this little four-letter word can crystallize an idea in the mind of an audience. Metaphor + Analogy + Stories: The Adman’s Best Friends
A metaphor explains complex concepts and hard to comprehend processes by comparing them to common everyday knowledge. We use metaphors everyday without even realizing we’re doing it. We ‘race’ to the office. We work like ‘dogs. ” And we all know, it’s a ‘jungle’ out there. Metaphors are critical to the way we communicate with each other and to the success of our marketing communication and advertising.
Metaphors can be extended into analogies, and analogies into stories, and stories into campaigns; and campaigns developed in this manner have a higher probability of achieving the elusive status of meaningful content that embeds your message in your audience’s collective consciousness. There is no better way to overcome a client’s objection than to put that objection into perspective with an appropriate allegorical story. Overcoming Objections: How Long Is Too Long?
We’ve all heard the constant bellyaching from impatience Web users about how long they have to wait for everything on the Web. Every time I hear this from somebody, I am reminded of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the early introduction of the Polaroid Land camera.
Before the days of one-hour photo shops, digital photography, and instant video feedback, people had to wait up to a week for their pictures to be developed by the local pharmacy or camera shop. When Polaroid came out with a camera that delivered a finished photograph in sixty seconds, people were amazed; the era of instant gratification had begun.
So the story goes, a group of adventurers traveled deep into the Brazilian Rainforest to learn about the indigenous people. When they came across a tribe who had never seen outsiders before, they befriended them and took pictures of them with the Polaroid cameras they brought along. The natives loved the pictures since they had never seen anything like this before, but they did have one complaint, ‘why did it take so long for the pictures to develop?’
The problem is not technology; the problem is one of perception. Like the natives who perceived the sixty second developing of photographs to be slow, so to do many Web-users perceive the Internet to be slow when in fact it is an incredible technological achievement where anyone with a computer and Internet connection can access information from all over the world in seconds or, heaven forbid, minutes. The Better The Story, The Better The Communication
The solution to the problem is better communication, making yourself and your message instantly understood. People who are truly interested in what you have to say will wait for your Web page or video to load. What gets them frustrated is when they wait, and instead of getting a meaningful message, they get a bunch of nonsense that is irrelevant, self-congratulatory or completely incomprehensible.
A video or audio message on your website is more easily grasped than a page full of densely written text or cryptic bulleted points. But you will loose your audience quickly no matter what the form of your message if it’s confusing, muddled, overly complex, or buried in b-school platitudes and industry jargon.
You need your message to be understandable, engaging, and memorable and one of the best ways to convey that message is to compare it to something your audience can relate to. It’s like teaching your kids a life lesson by reading them one of Aesop’s Fables. Finding Your Metaphor
Some people have a knack for expressing things in a way that an audience will instantly grasp and more importantly remember. For those of us in the communication, marketing, advertising, and creative development businesses it is a necessary skill learned over the years. But for those in the day-to-day grind of business’s nitty-gritty it is rarely an ability that ever gets developed.
Creating a Web video campaign that your audience is going to watch, remember, and pass on to colleagues requires a commitment of time and money, and you want to make sure it communicates your message effectively. Rather than using your traditional approach concentrating of features and facts, try something different; try developing a campaign based on a metaphor that delivers your brand’s personality and emotional value-add.
Where to begin? You need to set yourself free from the concrete, and concentrate on the conceptual. If this seems like a difficult thing to wrap your head around, then start with baby steps. Concentrate On The Conceptual
Any effective marketing campaign whether it’s a series of Web videos, direct emails, magazine display ads, banner ads, outdoor billboards, television and radio spots, or any combination there of, will only work if it focuses on a single message.
At the heart of all advertising is the promise you commit to delivering to your clients. No matter how clever or memorable your marketing, if you fail to deliver on that promise, you will fail.
Learn a lesson from the politicians. The general publics’ opinion of politicians is about on a par with having a prostate exam. Politicians can’t help themselves, the promise the electorate what the electorate wants to hear, and then fail to deliver on promises that can never be kept. Consequently, people become cynical and distrust everything politicians say.
Failure to deliver on your promise to be the cheapest, the best, or the guy with the most features, is like a politician promising no new taxes. Read my lips! Those kinds of promises are a prescription for marketing disaster.
Taking the conceptual approach requires a certain degree of confidence and an understanding that you are going to have to give something up to get something in return. If you present your identity as the Timex of widgets, inexpensive and ubiquitous; then you are giving up the audience looking for the Rolex of widgets, expensive and exclusive. Audience Resonance: It’s All About Striking A Nerve
One of the most memorable commercials ever to appear on television was the 1985 introduction of the Apple Macintosh computer. The anti-big brother message said nothing of bits or bytes, or anything else computer related, but it did establish Apple’s character and personality with its allegorical message, a message that is still valid today.
If your marketing message lacks this kind of power and personality; if your advertising is getting lost, or drowned-out by the competition, try finding a metaphor that instantly tells your audience who you are and why they should care.
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National Instruments today announced that John Medica, former senior vice president for Dell and former senior director for Apple, was elected to the NI Board of Directors. “Throughout his career, John has demonstrated strong business, product and technology leadership, and I believe these qualities along with John’s experience in the PC industry will benefit NI,” said Dr. James Truchard, NI chairman, president and CEO. “We welcome John to National Instruments and look forward to his contributions. ” Medica retired from Dell in April 2007 as senior vice president and co-leader of the product group responsible for worldwide development, marketing and quality. He spent 14 years at Dell and served in a variety of leadership positions, such as president and chief operating officer of the Japan division, vice president of the Web products group and vice president and general manager of the transactional product group. Before joining Dell, Medica spent 10 years at Apple serving as project leader for the Macintosh II, director of the Macintosh CPU projects group and senior director of PowerBook Engineering. Medica also serves as the vice chairman and corporate advisor of Compal Group. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Wake Forest University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College. About National Instruments National Instruments (www. ni. com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past nine years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
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Do you believe in spirits? Have you ever heard bumps in the night and thought, with sweat running down your neck, that maybeâjust maybeâthere might be something to the ghost stories told around campfires?
John Edward has been a believer from a very young age. As a psychic, he contacts and communicates with spirits and reconnects them with their loved ones. Those who have doubts should always take the time to buy John Edward tickets and discover why so many of his fans believe in the spirit world that he explores on his nationally viewed television programs. âCrossing Over with John Edwardâ is by far the best known of his work, a TV show unlike any other, where Edward meets with audience members and contacts the spirits of their dead friends or family members, often revealing information on the show that he couldnât possibly have had any inkling of before meeting these guests.
If the spirit world is something that interests you and that you believe can be contacted and communicated with, then you absolutely should invest in some tickets. Seeing Edward in person will only reinforce your beliefs, as heâs one of the countryâs most renowned psychics. On his show, all sorts of bizarre and eerie family stories have been discussed. In some cases, there are families with members who passed away while on bad terms with the rest of their kin. These folk often try to communicate through mediums like Edward to express regret for the behavior they exhibited before their unfortunate and untimely passing.
Regardless, anyone whoâs a fan of ghost stories will get a chill running up and down their spine when they see Edward speaking before live audiences on his current touring show. Itâs the opportunity of a lifetime for some, who will go through the life-changing experience of developing a belief in spirits. Donât leave this hidden world untappedâseeing Edward live is a way to discover things about life and death that you never guessed at, and wouldnât be able to learn without seeing this show.
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John Travolta’ s fame started with the roles of Tony Manero and Danny Zuko in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978) respectively. He has been nominated two times for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture –Comedy/Musical for Get Shorty. He is married to actress Kelly Preston and has two children: Jett and Ella Bleu. Actually, I should say had. John and his family were on holiday at the Bahamas when on January 02nd 2009, less than 48 hours after the year 2009 started, his son Jett, 16 – that sucks - had a seizure, hit his head in a bathtub and died. The cause of death is still unknown. John Travolta and Kelly Preston always maintained that their son suffered from Kawasaki disease due to strong chemicals used to clean carpets while others argue that Jett suffered from autism, a mental disorder not recognized by Scientology. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed Monday morning to find the cause of death. Qantas sent their condolences to John Travolta, who is the airline ambassador. If you wish to send your condolences, AssociatedContent. com has posted a list of addresses where fans might send their letters to John and Kelly. If you do decide to send a letter, event tough you might not like the guy or agree with his belief, just keep in mind that the lost of his child is causing him great grief. So please only nice and recomforting words. The Trailers’ Park
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John Lennon Sunglasses have stayed all the rave ever since the imaginer made them a hit in the 60’s. It’s no doubt that Mr. Lennon was extremely fond of this certain type of sunglasses since he’s rarely photographed without them. They are almost remembered as a part of him. Before these round shades were attached to a legendary name they were known as “Teashades”, and are sometimes called that to this day. The perfectly round glasses which rested on a thin wire frame were catapulted into high demand when Lennon started seeing through them regularly. Through the years the trend caught on with other rockers like Jerry Garcia and Mick Jagger, as well as Ozzy Osbourne who wears them often in the present day. Main stream society has embraced John Lennon Sunglasses and the novelty has yet to wear off. They are highly sought after and sales aren’t expected to slow down. Any serious sunglasses aficionado owns a pair. You can also spot dozens of people at most rock concerts sporting the shades. Every time I picture John Lennon in his later years with The Beatles and beyond he’s wearing the shades that he made famous. The rock icon did so much for music and pop culture that John Lennon Sunglasses won’t become obsolete for decades. It would be difficult to find a sunglasses store that doesn’t carry the rocker’s shaded eyewear and you can find them sold all over the internet. The sunglasses are more about fashion of looking good. They’re a state of mind that tells the world the wearer is “tuned in”. This is why John Lennon Sunglasses are recognizable and sought after to this day. They are a testament to the legacy Lennon created.
