Thank you for posting this, my favourite advert I have ever seen; found after many many years of trying ad-hoc - I had recorded it on a video cassette, which I misplaced!
i love this add this takes me back to when i was a kid.i only saw this a few times and when i did it was never longer enough, i to wish thay would play it again.
Reduce Hollywood movies to their essential elements, and this would still be better for pacing, emotion, storyline, photography, direction, etc.
I have been waiting years to see this again. It could really do with a better title, and tags, then I expect it would get more than 2000 view per year. (And I would have found it ages ago. God knows how many searches I have done for this ad.)
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How about "Pirelli advert - World stops spinning ", Tags - Nessun Dorma, Red Countach, End Of the World?
Found this at last!! First aired in the Autumn of 1989, and I remeber there was a slightly longer version when first aired. It was jaw droppingly good and still holds up now. I only wish the sound now was actually Pavarotti - it's a sound alike but not the Maestro. Still fantastic though!!
Remember this for the first time from years ago. Was in a bar in Scotland and the whole place stopped dead. Everyone just stared at the screen in total silence with their mouths wide open. Made the hairs on my neck stand up listening to that voice .... and it still does. Simply sublime
I, too, have been hunting for this and am delighted it has been posted - so thank you for that. I've always thought that David Bailey directed this but I am uncertain: does anyone know who created it?
Does anyone have a copy of the Pirelli advert that aired on UK TV about 15 years ago, with people in leather bondage suits and with the Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" as background music. That's my favourite advert ever.
thanks for posting. I have the single of Pavarotti singing "Nessun dorma", with a lable saying, "Music from Pirelli TV ad", a year before the BBC used it for the World Cup Theme. thanks again.
Funny you should say that ukp42! I too remember seeing this ad a year or so before the same music was used in the world cup. It's strange to think that, before the world cup, hardly anyone in the UK would have heard of it! I remember thinking "that's the music from that fun Pirelli advert, I wonder if it'll ever be shown again". It wasn't, and I've been looking for it ever since! Now at last I've found it! Thankyou TGMMVI!
IMO one of the most memorable adverts ever made. Sadly it doesn't appeal to base instincts, so it doesn't get shown on Greatest Ever shows. Thanks. Like Vikingraider10, I had been searching for ages before I found it here.
Thank you for posting this, my favourite advert I have ever seen; found after many many years of trying ad-hoc - I had recorded it on a video cassette, which I misplaced!
adietiger 4 months ago
i love this add this takes me back to when i was a kid.i only saw this a few times and when i did it was never longer enough, i to wish thay would play it again.
1lamboman 8 months ago
Reduce Hollywood movies to their essential elements, and this would still be better for pacing, emotion, storyline, photography, direction, etc.
I have been waiting years to see this again. It could really do with a better title, and tags, then I expect it would get more than 2000 view per year. (And I would have found it ages ago. God knows how many searches I have done for this ad.)
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How about "Pirelli advert - World stops spinning ", Tags - Nessun Dorma, Red Countach, End Of the World?
JohnPreston888 8 months ago
@JohnPreston888 Thanks for the advice, good idea, I'll likely change it... Just got to figure how now!
TGMMVI 8 months ago
It took me ages to find this advert........not sure why I had to see it again??.
evil967 11 months ago
hahaha
fave advert
thought it was longert
clazza01 11 months ago
As a teenage boy hooked on cars, this ad was heaven. Please can Pirelli re-release it!
1ndy500 1 year ago
Found this at last!! First aired in the Autumn of 1989, and I remeber there was a slightly longer version when first aired. It was jaw droppingly good and still holds up now. I only wish the sound now was actually Pavarotti - it's a sound alike but not the Maestro. Still fantastic though!!
tonybudgett1 2 years ago
@tonybudgett1 . That was the only time I ever wrote to a company asking about the music. So when it appeared for the footie I already knew it.
jawlie 2 years ago
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tonybudgett1 2 years ago
Remember this for the first time from years ago. Was in a bar in Scotland and the whole place stopped dead. Everyone just stared at the screen in total silence with their mouths wide open. Made the hairs on my neck stand up listening to that voice .... and it still does. Simply sublime
flygerry 2 years ago
Blimey, I just had a sudden urge to search for this advert for some reason. And I found it here, and I see I also found it 2 years ago and commented.
See yous all in another 2 years.
Vikingraider10 2 years ago 3
Déjà vu!!!
TGMMVI 2 years ago
@Vikingraider10
1 Year to go?
marcswales 1 year ago
@marcswales
Yep, back again. 4 years on from my first vist.
Stopped by for another fix. It's still an excellent and well thought out advert.
Vikingraider10 11 months ago
I, too, have been hunting for this and am delighted it has been posted - so thank you for that. I've always thought that David Bailey directed this but I am uncertain: does anyone know who created it?
bill1lute 3 years ago
Does anyone have a copy of the Pirelli advert that aired on UK TV about 15 years ago, with people in leather bondage suits and with the Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" as background music. That's my favourite advert ever.
JLDoggard 4 years ago
I was on the effects crew - and the weather was awful for real!
Jynx359 4 years ago
What's the significance of the shopping trolley?
anguruso 4 years ago
thanks for posting. I have the single of Pavarotti singing "Nessun dorma", with a lable saying, "Music from Pirelli TV ad", a year before the BBC used it for the World Cup Theme. thanks again.
ukp42 4 years ago
Funny you should say that ukp42! I too remember seeing this ad a year or so before the same music was used in the world cup. It's strange to think that, before the world cup, hardly anyone in the UK would have heard of it! I remember thinking "that's the music from that fun Pirelli advert, I wonder if it'll ever be shown again". It wasn't, and I've been looking for it ever since! Now at last I've found it! Thankyou TGMMVI!
EASYTIGER10 4 years ago
sooo glad u posted that :)
baltymora2 4 years ago
Yes I have been trying to hunt it downried on too.
Thanks well done.
simontenor 4 years ago
IMO one of the most memorable adverts ever made. Sadly it doesn't appeal to base instincts, so it doesn't get shown on Greatest Ever shows. Thanks. Like Vikingraider10, I had been searching for ages before I found it here.
VincentValentine888 4 years ago
I remember this from many years ago, and have been looking for it for ages.
Thanks.
Vikingraider10 4 years ago