1 Colonel Sanders, Hanging Out With Alice Cooper
First of all, how many of you kids thought that “Colonel Sanders” was just a drawing on the KFC logo rather than a real person? He was a real guy, and I don’t mean that in the sense that the chain had a dude dress up as him the way McDonald’s has guys in Hamburglar costumes running around. He invented the KFC recipe and started the restaurant chain (at age 65, no less). And here he is talking to heavy metal legend Alice Cooper.
After hours of searching, I still have no idea whatsoever how a young rock star from Detroit and a fried chicken magnate from Kentucky wound up in the same room, or what they would possibly have had to talk about. And I guess I don’t want to know, that’s what makes it a classic in the Awesome People Hanging Out Together genre.
Seriously, you can get lost for hours in there.
What I do know is that these are two men who both knew exactly how important it is to your “brand” to maintain a unique, consistent visual presentation in public. For the last 20 years of Sanders’ life, he would not leave the house without wearing the trademark white suit, black tie and Southern-style beard that made his image so memorable on the franchise’s logo. Likewise, you never saw the menacing rocker Alice Cooper in, say, a huge Hawaiian shirt and bicycle shorts. It’s all just part of the game.
