The adverts

Banda de punk rock inglesa de mediados de los 70, pionera en incorporar a una mujer entre sus miembros.

El grupo lo conforman T.V. Smith, Gaye Advert, Tim Cross y Howard Pickup.

Uno de sus temas más iracundos fue "Gary Gilmour's eyes", canción que referencia al asesino en serie americano Gary Mark Gilmore:

"I'm lying in a hospital, I'm pinned against the bed

A stethoscope upon my heart, a hand against my head

They're peeling off the bandages, I'm wincing in the light

The nurse is looking anxious and she's quivering with fright.

I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

The doctors are avoiding me, my vision is confused

I listen to my earphones and I catch the evening news

A murderer's been killed, nd he donates his sight to science

I booked into a private ward, I realise that I

Must be looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

I smash the light in anger, push my bed against the door

I close my lids across the eyes I wish to see no more

The eye receives the messages and sends it to the brain

No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same

When looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Gary don't need his eyes to see

Gary and his eyes have parted company".

"La canción "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" de los Adverts era una pura idea punk -¿qué pasaría si Gary Gilmore hubiera donado sus ojos a un banco de ojos y tú los llevases?-, demasiado pura como para ser otra cosa."

-Rastros de carmín, Greil Marcus-.