Thursday, October 24, 2013

Can this 1974 "Raped by Mick Jagger" ad be real?


It has to be a hoax. I truly hope so, anyway.

I just saw this posted in the Facebook group "1960's and 1970's Advertisements". From there I tracked it back to a post from last June in Anorak. The oldest post I found was on Flickr from 2008.

Does anyone have provenance on this? Claimed to be from a 1974 "rock magazine," it parodies a long-running campaign for Maidenform begun by the William Weintrob Advertising Agency in New York:

Via Blogspot
So, if you combine 1970s political incorrectness, the bad-boy image of the rock press, a cheap shot at consumerism, and a wink at the contemporary rumours about a Bowie-Jagger affair, would you end up with such an ad?

If you have any information about this, please comment below.
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3 comments:

  1. KatOctober 26, 2013 at 12:35 PM

    It's real and I am apparently better at googling than you are. ;)

    It's from the December 1974 issue of US magazine "Creem".

    Here (scroll down to the one with Frank Zappa on the cover):
    http://www.afka.net/mags/Creem.htm

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  2. KatOctober 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM

    Here is the scanned page from that website:
    http://www.afka.net/images/Magazines/1974/1974-12-xx%20Creem%20v6n7%2007.jpg

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