Earth, Wind & Fire plus big old early '80s ghetto blasters seem to belong together, really.
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Ha! Beat to it with posting that one. It feels like an awful lot of money back in those days too
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Yep remember the Maxell tape adverts have you seen the price of blank cassettes now 
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I remember being told if I didn’t use Naim speaker wire and interconnects it could blow up
Are you perhaps thinking of Bod who used to do cartoons for Hifi News & Record Review as well as for Acoustical Quad?
One of my favourites here, and of course this one very much with a Naim theme to it…
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This for me, was a masterpiece of marketing.
There’s another version (Into the Valley - The Skids) but I prefer this one.
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“Me ears are alight”. Brilliant, I’d forgotten that one.
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I think of got some back issues of Hifi For Pleasure with this little ad inside.
I bought it for a few pounds to frame and put above my CB kit. I’m guessing early 80’s?
I’d like to find a few more like it from the CB era.
No it’s more like mid '70s
Oooh even better thanks
That would likely date it to late '70s - '78 or '79.
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Would it help if this thread was moved to the Padded Cell? - content there could also be deemed a little less than ‘modern’ or appropriate to contemporary mores…
I did consider putting it in Padded Cell but it was intended for old hifi advertising. 
I’m quite happy not to see any sexist stuff as I thought it was cringeworthy at the time, and I’m pretty much unreconstructed 
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Thanks for the reminder to change that terrible name.
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This is getting far too PC 
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I forgot to mention that these adverts had a not-so-subtle nod to Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues video.
Extra bonus points, in my view.