ENTERTAINMENT 11/15/2018 07:52 am ET The festive promo for British department store John Lewis has received a mixed response. By Lee Moran Elton John plays a starring role in British department store John Lewis’ holiday ad for 2018, which was released Thursday. But the promo that traces the music icon’s successful career back to the moment he received a piano for Christmas as a young child has been met with mixed reaction. Check out the ad here: Many people on Twitter said the ad ― titled “The Boy And The Piano” and set to John’s ’70s classic “Your Song” ― was “fantastic,” with one person praising its “endearing message.” Others, however, said the promo that cost around $8.6 million and uses actors to depict various stages of John’s life was a “shameless plug” for John’s final Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which kicked off in September, and the … [Read more...] about Elton John’s Star Turn In John Lewis’ 2018 Holiday Ad Misses The Mark For Many
