Opinions vary about the use of rock and roll music in TV commercials. However one may feel, it's hardly a novelty.
Here's a pretty extensive list of what tunes have been used for which commercials. And here's an entrepreneurial blog devoted to the topic.
For some folks of a certain age, coming to terms with the development has been somewhat of a difficult adjustment to make. As are many things one encounters as one gets increasingly geezed.
So it struck me as… how shall I say… an interesting advertising decision, when I saw tonight, for the first time, a commercial for menopause.com that used the Allman Brothers' "Blue Sky."
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