Between the Briefs - by Aubrey Malden (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Between The Briefs" propels you into the often flamboyant and sometimes dark world of international advertising agencies and their clients, revealing what really goes on. Including working for Prince Charles and the Queen of England. Revelations about Freddie Mercury, from the rock group Queen, who the author studied with. A touch of sex, an attempted bribe, a kidnapping in Cannes and an adventure with an inflatable doll. And the day when the author was fired by advertising guru, David Ogilvy because he proposed using rock star Paul McCartney for an international campaign for The World Wildlife Fund.

This book whisks you along from adventure to near catastrophe, to adventure again and again...

Review Quotes

Preface By John Tylee

former associate editor Campaign Magazine, London.

When I began writing for Campaign magazine, the London-based weekly bible of the advertising industry, more than a quarter of a century ago, it was still just possible to claim -- and many did -- that advertising was the most fun you could have while still keeping your clothes on. The outrageously camp creative director of one the UK's biggest agencies even challenged that popular notion by sending me a Christmas card with a picture of himself lying naked on a sheepskin rug with only a bottle of Bollinger protecting his modesty. I was immensely relieved to discover that I wasn't the sole recipient of this bit of seasonal goodwill to all men.

It's hard to imagine that stories like this -- along with the ones that Aubrey Malden has to tell in this book -- would be as plentiful today as they were back then. This was a time when advertising could still accommodate exasperating geniuses like Malden's one-time boss David Ogilvy. A man of compelling but also unswervingly hidebound views, Ogilvy was not a man who tolerated dissent -- as Malden's story about Ogilvy, Paul McCartney and the soundtrack for a World Wildlife Fund commercial hilariously underlines.