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Fri 11 Nov 2007The jingles chartAdvertising has the power to launch (or re-launch) a band's career by featuring their music in high-profile ad campaigns. Kevin Courtneylooks at the acts now soundtracking the catchiest commercials and asks if rock'n'roll has sold its soulA MAN walks into a record store and says to the geek behind the counter: "I'll have a bottle of Bulmers, a Ballygowan, a Big Mac, a yogurt, a Cadbury's bar, a Magnum and a box of Ariel washing powder. Oh, and a new Nissan." The geek doesn't bat a bespectacled eyelid, but goes out the back of the store and returns with a pile of CDs containing songs by, respectively, Donovan, Stellarsound featuring Paula Flynn, Johnny Logan, James Brown, Phil Collins, Yma Sumac, Kool & the Gang and Julie London.