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Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 1979

Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 1979

...What we can learn from a sneered-upon London ad agency

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Paddy Gilmore | HumourScope®
May 06, 2025
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Ever fancied jumping into a time machine and heading back to a London advertising agency in 1979?

Probably not.

But bear with me! You can, because there’s a really rather wonderful 23-minute documentary on BFI Player, here, called Enterprise. It’s a programme made about an ad agency called Allen, Brady & Marsh (ABM), in 1979. And it’s free to watch1.

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