Coffee Achievers Bowie

Jane curtain or david fucking bowie knew that footage of them was being used to promote coffee but it looks like ann and nancy wilson of heart were enthusiastically on board.

Coffee achievers bowie. Check out the ads below don t blink or you ll miss david bowie. 1984 ad includes david bowie rock stars sport stage cicely tyson ann nancy wilson hea. Yes that was david bowie and cicely tyson and kurt vonnegut. Looking back at the coffee achievers.

Taylor august 22 2006. Join the coffee achievers. Appearing in this ad. At the risk of dating myself i still love this commercial.

David bowie and kurt vonnegut invited you to join the coffee achievers club in 1983 in 1983 the national coffee association nca invited you to join the the coffee achievers a band of high quality successful people who through the power of coffee had percolated to the very top of society. Writers are the original coffee achievers. Coffee has been an essential tool of almost all the greatest modern writers and certainly of the most prolific ones. In response to twenty years of declining coffee consumption the association launched a 20 million join the coffee achievers advertising campaign on september 11 1983.

In 1984 the national coffee association launched a campaign called the coffee achievers trying sell coffee as young and hip. The coffee achievers if i told you that there was a publicity event in the 1980s that brought together musical acts like david bowie the electric light orchestra and heart you d probably assume that i was talking about live aid or usa for africa but that s not the answer. It also features a let s dance era david bowie cicely tyson and the elo song hold on tight to your. In the early 80s when i was a college graduate with a beer in my hand and a song in my heart i was openly scornful of the coffee achievers tv advertising campaign which utilized pitchfolk like david bowie kurt vonnegut jr and heart s ann and nancy wilson to tout the supposedly beneficial buzz of a cup o joe to goose one s productivity.

You are the new coffee generation. Aimed at the 18 to 34 age group the television commercials featured ken anderson david bowie jane curtin joe jackson.