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9:50 pm - 05/22/2007

Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone Advertise Doc Martens

 

It seems that dead celebrities can be used to sell more than pointless reissues and vacuum cleaners, notes PunkNews.org. Allegedly, a new print/poster campaign in the U.K. for famous punk rock footwear maker, Doc. Martens, has used four of the biggest names of the genre's deceased stars.

Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer have been reported to all appear as angels wearing the famous boots. Writer Andrew Petch said the following of the add campaign:

"We wanted to communicate that Dr. Martens boots are ‘made to last,’ and we discovered that these idolized musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatized the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic."

According to the article at the Daily Swarm, the images have been cleared for use in the U.K. only, in an arrangement with Corbis, supplier of the original photographs, which have been enhanced by photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet.

Joe Strummer
























Sid Vicious

Joey Ramone

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[info]ecctv 23rd-May-2007 05:09 am (UTC)
if we run with this analogy of there being a heaven, kurt wouldnt even BE In heaven due to suicide being a sin.
~to hell with you~
[info]freudian_fuckup 23rd-May-2007 05:11 am (UTC)
eh, that's just if it's a christian heaven.
[info]bluesforgotten 23rd-May-2007 05:14 am (UTC)
and not all christian denominations apply this rule to heaven, some see suicide is being based on some sort of mental disorder or problem and therefore they couldn't help themselves.
[info]aerogoddes 23rd-May-2007 05:12 am (UTC)
He didn't commit suicide, he was murdered LOL!
[info]stevie_moore 23rd-May-2007 05:12 am (UTC)
What about that conspiracy?
[info]all15minutefame 23rd-May-2007 05:55 am (UTC)
Same with Sid Vicious... why is he in heaven? Did he ever do anything that wasn't considered a sin?
[info]loveporfavor 23rd-May-2007 06:02 am (UTC)
haha
[info]mareejane 23rd-May-2007 06:32 am (UTC)
sid wouldn't either
[info]robot_penis 23rd-May-2007 07:18 am (UTC)
I am having a flashback of when my sister asked my brother, "Did you know 'The Chronicles of Narnia' is a metaphor?"
[info]greatestwonders 23rd-May-2007 12:48 pm (UTC)
A lot of spiritual groups that STRONGLY believe in God actually don't hold that belief. Nor does everyone believe that God sends gays or anyone else for that matter to hell - they say that you reach different levels of heaven for how much your soul progresses after death, and then you're reincarnated (not necessarily on earth, either) if you still have more to learn. So I don't know. Not everyone thinks Kurt and the rest of these people are going to hell, I guess.
[info]kohaku_hime but its not heaven... — 23rd-May-2007 02:06 pm (UTC)
but hes not IN heaven...hes in bad ass boot heaven
[info]silencethestars 23rd-May-2007 02:37 pm (UTC)
neither would sid. he killed his girlfriend.
[info]forgethissmile 23rd-May-2007 04:56 pm (UTC)
Yeah...I hate branches of Christianity that believe in that.

One of the most inspirational figures in my hometown committed suicide around 5 years ago (when I, and all my friends were 15 and 16) and it basically shook the whole town. And some Catholic churches decided to tell the teenagers (who got hit the hardest because he was a high school teacher) that he was in hell now because he killed himself.
That was the start of me renouncing my membership in the Christian religion.
[info]shanny_w 23rd-May-2007 08:30 pm (UTC)
or ~drug use~
[info]you_a_bug 23rd-May-2007 05:10 am (UTC)
WHAT ABOUT BRAD
[info]vagabonden 23rd-May-2007 05:20 am (UTC)
Is that for real or just a prank on wikipedia???
[info]you_a_bug 23rd-May-2007 05:22 am (UTC)
IDK
IDC

CREDIT 2 [info]tomatoes
[info]isildae 23rd-May-2007 05:26 am (UTC)

He died????
[info]apothecaries 23rd-May-2007 05:35 am (UTC)
I refuse to believe he died!
[info]slur 23rd-May-2007 05:43 am (UTC)
WHAT BOUT GG?? hahahaha
[info]wolfgang1969 23rd-May-2007 06:31 am (UTC)
WHat? He's dead, no way! i loved him! :-(
[info]jem4water 23rd-May-2007 07:06 am (UTC)
I'm completely out of the loop here, but Brad who?
[info]jamieaqua 23rd-May-2007 08:16 am (UTC)
?? He's not dead...is he?
[info]l0la 23rd-May-2007 02:33 pm (UTC)
This is how rumors get started.
[info]kittykannibal 23rd-May-2007 05:10 am (UTC)
i kinda think this is wrong
not sure why though :/
[info]kittykannibal 23rd-May-2007 05:29 pm (UTC)
you're right on it :)

i wonder how the families are taking this...?
[info]sistershotgun 23rd-May-2007 05:45 pm (UTC)
I agree. That's not cool at all.
[info]mentalrant 23rd-May-2007 05:10 am (UTC)
classy...
[info]goddessdream 23rd-May-2007 05:11 am (UTC)
Oook...
[info]stevie_moore 23rd-May-2007 05:11 am (UTC)
That doesn't even look like Sid.
[info]wisheraway 23rd-May-2007 12:45 pm (UTC)
It does? It's a photo of him? A kinda famous one?
[info]drayton 23rd-May-2007 05:11 am (UTC)
i love joe strummer
[info]rotticahei 23rd-May-2007 06:30 am (UTC)
iawtc
[info]wolfgang1969 23rd-May-2007 06:32 am (UTC)
Likewise. The clash are one of my fave. bands.
[info]skywars 23rd-May-2007 04:22 pm (UTC)
iawtc
[info]padmez 23rd-May-2007 05:54 pm (UTC)
Me too :(
[info]thecoldacre 23rd-May-2007 06:02 pm (UTC)
me too bb
[info]telephones 23rd-May-2007 08:41 pm (UTC)
me too.. and this makes me sad.
[info]hateistoodark 24th-May-2007 12:22 am (UTC)
me too
[info]kaylapoo 23rd-May-2007 05:11 am (UTC)
most of you might hate me for asking this, but what happened to sid?
[info]vagabonden 23rd-May-2007 05:12 am (UTC)
Heroin overdose.
[info]kaylapoo 23rd-May-2007 05:12 am (UTC)
yeah thought so, thanks
[info]__xdrublic 23rd-May-2007 12:19 pm (UTC)
I didn't even know that, and I actually expected the first answer to this question to be heroin overdose.

They alll overdose or somethin'.
[info]hangar 23rd-May-2007 05:15 am (UTC)
Heroin overdose in 1979.
[info]gefingerpoken 23rd-May-2007 06:45 am (UTC)
He died. XD
[info]anterrabre 23rd-May-2007 07:49 am (UTC)
Killed his GF Nancy Spugnen, then ODed right before the trial was supposed to start. Some people say that he did it on purpose because he wanted to be with her.
[info]kyujong 23rd-May-2007 05:11 am (UTC)
ahaha oh man. doc martens, i love you even more now. i guess im just morbid but i find this amusing.
[info]ohyeah_huh 23rd-May-2007 10:17 pm (UTC)
haha. me too.
[info]artemis_archer 23rd-May-2007 05:12 am (UTC)
wtf this is weird ~_^
[info]puta_estupida 23rd-May-2007 05:13 am (UTC)
iawtcc
[info]mollymawk 23rd-May-2007 05:12 am (UTC)
the kurt cobain one is lame but the sid vicious one is kinda hot.
[info]isildae 23rd-May-2007 05:27 am (UTC)
iawtc
[info]gingerdoll 23rd-May-2007 07:18 am (UTC)
I think the Joe Strummer one is hot, too.
[info]asteriatic 23rd-May-2007 05:13 am (UTC)
LAME.
[info]sinwithagrin 23rd-May-2007 05:13 am (UTC)
Are we getting Punk'd?
[info]piercednheaven 23rd-May-2007 09:02 pm (UTC)
CM PUNK'D PERHAPS?@?@#?
[info]sinwithagrin 23rd-May-2007 10:04 pm (UTC)
it's the best kind of Punk'd. ♥
[info]rhapsody 23rd-May-2007 05:13 am (UTC)
Right. At least, they didn't put actual wings on them.
[info]vagabonden 23rd-May-2007 05:13 am (UTC)
Ugh. Do not want.

I have to admit the Joey Ramone one made me laugh, though. I don't know why.
[info]disarming 23rd-May-2007 05:37 am (UTC)
agreed.
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