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DFS offer to turn your room around with their 2013 Spring collection in this TV ad. The soundtrack is a bit of classic soul girl doo-wop

This song comes from The Faces 1973 album titled ‘Ooh La La’ which went to No.1 in the album chart. Rod Stewart felt that the song was below par so did not sing on this recording.

An unusual DFS ad this, in that it doesn’t feature a sofa until right at the end. This is the story of two brothers, the youngest of whom has a tough day, but eventually gets the sit down he deserves. The music

This latest ad for DFS sofas features a long-forgotten bubblegum pop song from 1971. “Would you like to be my orangutan?” the song asks, “I can be your big fat oranguman!” The track is Big Fat Oranguman by

Promoting the fact that their sofas, or “planets, dancefloors and spaceships”, are currently half price, this DFS ad has a bunch of kids in dressing up mode, and music from Kimya Dawson and her band Antsy Pants. Tree Hugger is from the soundtrack of the 2007 movie

It’s not often we hear the dulcet tones of the Diamond on TV ads, so fair play to sofa peddlers DFS for using Neil’s track We, from his 2005 Rick Rubin-produced ‘comeback’ album 12 Songs.