"It was, however, ‘Into the Valley’, which the then 18 year old Jobson had written about a friend who had been recruited into the British Army and killed on tour of duty in Northern Ireland, which went into the Top 10 and brought the Skids to public prominence."
I also seem to recall another story that it described going through an area of Dunfermline which was called something like the "Valley" which had a reputation for gang violence.
Great tune, rubbish advert. It was on TV just now and I asked Mrs Lout to guess what they were advertising - no chance. Whoever came up with that wants firing (IMHO).
Quite agree, Saga - could be for 101 things! All very atmospheric/ nostalgic, but don't see it selling a single thing for Halfords. My guess is that the ad agency had already developed it for someone else, but it didn't get the go-ahead so they just changed the end-frame and pitched it to Halfords...
Great tune, rubbish advert. It was on TV just now and I asked Mrs Lout to guess what they were advertising - no chance. Whoever came up with that wants firing (IMHO).
Disagree - it works cos we are all talking about it!
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"It was, however, ‘Into the Valley’, which the then 18 year old Jobson had written about a friend who had been recruited into the British Army and killed on tour of duty in Northern Ireland, which went into the Top 10 and brought the Skids to public prominence."
I also seem to recall another story that it described going through an area of Dunfermline which was called something like the "Valley" which had a reputation for gang violence.
Sorry, my reference was to the other Valley song! Just being a nonce ;-)