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Why make a big deal when rock legends sell out? Everyone deserves to make more money for retirement, even rock legends. I remember in the seventies hearing on the radio, a DJ stating "That there were not too many artists like Bob Dylan, that won't sell out their music". In 2004, I saw Dylan singing in a Victoria Secret commercial, he sang "Love Sick" as he was walking next to a tall beautiful brunet with angel wings wearing a bra and panties.

That upset a lot of Dylan fans. I didn't see anything wrong with him doing this commercial. He's worked hard writing songs for five decades. Maybe he did this commercial to shock his hard core Dylan fans. Bob Dylan is just one of the many rock legends that have sold out.

The legendary rock group "The Who" has their songs as the theme for three CSI television series. Also Roger Daltrey of "The Who" has appeared as a guest star in one of the episode of CSI. The group "The Who" has also used music for advertising for companies such as; Hewlett Packard, Seven Up and Nissan. What about Pepsi, America Express, and Visa, they all have had their share of rock and pop legends over the years. The money is easier to make doing commercials than touring in concert around the world, especially when you're a rocker in your early sixties. Most of these rock legends are icons to the world and their image will sell anything.

A rock star today should not ever say that they will never sell out because eventually every rock star sells out unless they die at an early age. Elvis Presley would be one that would never sell out in his career, but now that he's dead, you can hear some of his songs on television commercials. Also the Beatles with their ten years being together they never sold out their songs to television commercial advertising. In the early stages of rock n' roll; you probably would have seen a lot of music artist selling out because some artists were working for peanuts. The only problem back then was the money wasn't as good as it is today in advertising and rock n' roll didn't have a very good image in those days.

I see that selling out will not be a problem for any future rock legends, because it all about the money. Just like professional athletes with Nike and other million dollar endorsements. Some of these musicians today have even gotten smarter and are selling their music through the Internet. They decided they don't need the record companies getting their share of their money. Not too many rock artists give up a chance to make a lot of money by selling out. If the big record companies aren't going to pay these artist some good money, the values of a rock artist selling out is not going to be important anymore.

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