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VOTE: Which is your favourite John Lewis Christmas ad?

Monty the Penguin from 2014. (John Lewis/PA Archive)
Monty the Penguin from 2014. (John Lewis/PA Archive)

JOHN LEWIS have just revealed their much anticipated Christmas ad for 2017, featuring Moz the Monster.

The company’s campaign has become a fixture of the British festive calendar, introducing characters ranging from a lovelorn snowman and his snow girlfriend to a trampolining dog.

To celebrate the arrival of Moz, here’s a look back at some of their big hits from the past ten years.

Which is your favourite? Have a scroll through the ads from the past and have your say at the bottom!

 

2007: Shadows

The ad shows a group of people stacking a pile of potential gifts including a desktop lamp, a computer and a leather satchel in an empty room. The finished product ends up creating a shadow that looks like a woman walking her dog through the snow, accompanied by the tagline: “Whoever you’re looking for this Christmas.”

2008: From Me To You

Culminating in the tagline: “If you know the person, you’ll find the present,” it shows a succession of characters followed by a matching gift.

The soundtrack is a cover of The Beatles’ From Me To You recorded for the campaign, with vocals by Matt Spinner, a member of the John Lewis IT department and its music society.

2009: Sweet Child O’ Mine

This was the first of the store’s Christmas campaigns created by advertising agency Adam & Eve, now adam&eveDDB, and the first to feature a musical cover by a current artist, on this occasion a Taken By Trees version of Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses.

The ad shows children opening gifts for adults including a laptop, coffee machine and handbag, followed by the tagline: “Remember how Christmas used to feel? Give someone that feeling.”

2010: A Tribute to Givers

Ellie Goulding’s cover of Elton John’s Your Song was the soundtrack to this ad, which showed parents sneaking a rocking horse upstairs while their children watched television, a man struggling to wrap a pair of candlesticks, a mechanic attempting to wrap a teapot at work and a young boy hanging a stocking on his dog’s kennel.

2011: The Long Wait

Set to Slow Moving Millie’s cover of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths, the ad shows a young boy impatiently counting down to Christmas, only to show that his real motivation was to give presents to his parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8axp9nHNU

2012: The Journey

A snowman traverses mountains and motorways to get to a shop to buy his snow girlfriend a scarf to keep her warm.

The soundtrack is Gabrielle Aplin’s cover of The Power Of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the tagline is “Give a little more love this Christmas.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWig2WARb0

2013: The Bear and the Hare

Lily Allen’s cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know accompanies an animated tale that opens with the line: “There was once an animal who had never seen Christmas.” It goes on to show the friendship between a bear and a hare until the bear departs to hibernate when snow starts to fall. The hare thinks of the perfect Christmas present for the bear, an alarm clock to allow him to wake up and experience Christmas.

2014: Monty the Penguin

Monty, who hopes for love at Christmas time, is the imaginary character created by a boy whose favourite toy is a stuffed penguin. A female penguin toy happily arrives under the tree for Monty on Christmas Day.

The ad features a Tom Odell cover of John Lennon’s Real Love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuz2ILq4UeA

2015: Man on the Moon

The biggest tearjerker of them all shows a young girl who spots a lonely old man on the moon and decides to send him a telescope to give him a connection to Earth. The partnership with Age UK had the tagline: “Show someone they’re loved this Christmas.”

Norwegian artist Aurora provided the soundtrack with a cover of Half The World Away by Oasis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr6lr_VRsEo

2016: Buster the Boxer

The story of Buster, who makes a break for the new Christmas trampoline after having to suffer watching foxes, a badger, squirrels and a hedgehog trying it out first, was accompanied by a cover of Randy Crawford’s One Day I’ll Fly Away by electronic trio Vaults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw1Y-zhQURU

2017… Moz the Monster!

A two-minute tale of friendship that develops between saucer-eyed Moz the Monster and his seven-year-old host Joe, set to a cover of The Beatles song Golden Slumbers by Manchester band Elbow.

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