Ad of the Day: Sony Xperia Z

Tarsem and David Bowie team up for one very special smartphone ad indeed

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So, to elevate an otherwise just sort-of-neat ad for its new smartphone, the Xperia Z (pronounce it "zed" for full effect), Sony had the good sense to enlist the talents of the artist formerly known as Ziggy Stardust—or at least his vocals from a 1977 outtake of the song "Sound and Vision."

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