I remember seeing the first ads for "Blown Away Guy" on TV around 1980 and being very impressed with it. It captured many ideas about enjoying equipment and music. I forget who the rock group was in the Canadian ads but I on a trip to London around that time I was taken by how the guy was nearly blown off his chair to the sound of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. That same ad appeared on North American television a year later
Check it out below. Maxell brought back this icon last year and its on several of its products again.
My wife thinks I've been trying to recreate that effect in our house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DP89iMe0BY 
