I’m sure John Lennon would be over-the-moon to know his music is now being sold by that global, mainstream coffee chain, Starbucks … especially given his arch-enemy/friend/colleague Paul McCartney got their first when his last load of self-indulgent, ego-maniac, about-as-relevant-to-modern-music-as-spam-is-to-modern-cuisine CD was sold exclusively through that channel.
Given this latest act of ‘brand exploitation’, it would seem this old, racist and highly prejudicial joke isn’t actually a joke anymore.
Q: What’s yellow and lives off dead beetles?
A: Yoko Ono.
Click here for another ‘feeding off the dead’ example – this time by Age.