This one never aired. Richard Dreyfuss provided the voice-over on the broadcast version
The ad and the slogan -- a play on IBM's (IBM) "Think" -- were created for Apple (AAPL) by the Los Angeles office of Chiat\Day.
The spot features, in order of their appearance, Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso.
Thanks to dogtownmac, who posted it on YouTube.
Google celebrates what would have been the singer's 70th birthday with a YouTube video logo of the classic Imagine.
As Google (GOOG) Doodles go, this one is unique in that it is video clip (most doodles are static) of John Lennon's 1971 classic Imagine, which transforms into Google's logo pictured above. The Doodle is rolling out across the world and works only in desktop browsers that can see YouTube videos.
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John Lennon's widow tells Reuters: "Don't hold your breath"
Apple (AAPL) settled its trademark dispute with Apple Corps, The Beatles' holding company in February 2007, clearing the way for one of the world's most commercially successful pop bands to put its catalog on iTunes, the world's largest music store.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 6, 2010 7:06 AM ET
Apple's CEO tops two polls in one week. Will no one rid us of these meddlesome lists?
Last Thursday, Oct. 8, an Agenda Setters panel named Steve Jobs the most influential individual in the global technology industry, ahead of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Barack Obama, President of the United States.
Four days later, a survey of 1,000 tweens and teens ages 12 to 17 picked Steve MORE
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