Matthew Weiner’s commitment to authenticity is second to none. His Mad Men series is a televised portal back in time, a weekly peek into 1960s Manhattan, the advertising industry, and all it ...

The Rolling Stones were the resident bad boys of the British Invasion, but apparently at one point they weren't above trying to sell some breakfast cereal. A British ad for Rice Krispies from the ...

Shortly after the Rolling Stones formed in 1962 and released their debut single, a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Come On” a year later, the band was commissioned to come up with a jingle for a popular ...

Once again, "Mad Men" storylines include some ripped-from-yesterday's-headlines elements: Don Draper's mention in Sunday's episode that the Rolling Stones did a cereal commercial is true. The Stones ...

The music business, even for the most ardently anti-capitalist bands, is a tension between pure art and the crassest of commercial exploitation. Often, even groups that don't get derided for "selling ...

Snap, crackle, rock. Did everyone know this but me? Apparently, back in 1963 or thereabouts, The Rolling Stones composed and recorded a Rice Krispies commercial for British television. I had never ...

The Rolling Stones were the resident bad boys of the British Invasion, but apparently at one point they weren't above trying to sell some breakfast cereal. A British ad for Rice Krispies from the ...