ABOUT US
Zippo lighters have an entertainment resume and career longevity that a superstar would envy. They were a required accessory for film heroes of the 30s and 40s - as much a part of the costume as the trench coat and fedora. American GIs have been equipped with Zippo lighters both on and off screen since the early days of World War II. The familiar shape and distinctive click sound are as instantly recognizable as Grouchos moustache, the Dukes drawl, or Julia Roberts smile.
Movie Star
Zippo's rise to prominence during World War II is reflected by the large number of films that feature Zippo lighters, both those made during that period and afterward. Whether it's Donna Reed lighting Montgomery Clift's cigarette in From Here to Eternity or Errol Flynn wielding his Zippo with characteristically suave leading-man style in Objective Burma, a Zippo lighter provides an instant air of authenticity. Director George Stevens was captured using his Zippo during the making of his documentary D-Day to Berlin. In 1945, Vincent Minelli's The Clock used a lighter to bring Judy Garland and Robert Walker together for a whirlwind courtship. The dialogue indicates that it is a Zippo lighter, but the shortage of civilian Zippo lighters forced the use of a stand-in. (See Zippo history
for more information about the shortage of Zippo lighters during World War II.)
The military connection extends through films about the Korean War and Vietnam. A Zippo linked Karl Malden and Richard Widmark in Sergeant Terror, while Gregory Peck counted on his Zippo for moral support in Pork Chop Hill. The Green Berets, starring John Wayne, was extremely popular. So is the camouflage model the Duke used is one of Zippo's most sought-after collectibles. Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola set the haunting tone of his film in the opening scenes with Martin Sheen's Colt revolver and a Zippo lighter.
Featured Movie Role
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Four stories, representing the emotional principles of love, pleasure, sorrow, and happiness, come together in this episodic drama. A powerful crime boss, Fingers, subtly controls the destinies of four people whose circumstances have brought them to a crossroads in their lives. A quiet business executive is told that an upcoming horse race has been rigged and bets everything he has on his belief that the story is true. A noted pop singer discovers her career is hanging in the balance when she's forced to sever ties with her manager. A doctor must set aside a physician's traditional guidelines when circumstances demand he treat the woman he loves after a serious accident. And a criminal has a powerful vision of the future, but can't decide if his premonitions are to be trusted.
Cast: Andy Garcia, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brendan Fraser
Directed by: Jieho Lee
Distributed by: NALA Films
Released: 2007
Also see Zippo in…
| 13 Days | 1969 | 28 Days | 29th Street |
| A Beautiful Mind | |||
| 3000 Miles to Graceland | 48 Hours | 61 | 8 Millimeters |
| A Brilliant Disguise | A Hole in the Head | A Killer in the Family (TV movie) | A Soldier's Story |
| A Soldier's Sweetheart | Aatish | Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas | About Last Night |
| Across the Line | Across the Universe | Act of Love | Adam-12 |
| Addams Family | Addicted to Love | Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The | After Alice |
| Against All Odds | Air America | Airforce | Airheads |
| Airplane 2 | Alien Resurrection | Alive | All About Eve |
| All Dogs go to Heaven | All Quiet on the Western Front | All the Presidents Men | All the Pretty Horses |
| All the Real Girls (TV movie) | Ally McBeal | Almost Famous | Amazon |
| American Beauty | American Gangster | American History X | American Me |
| American Pie | American Psycho | American Werewolf in Paris, An | Amistad |
| Anaconda | Animatrix, The | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Andrew Dice Clay |
| Andromeda Strain, The | Andy Griffith Show | Angel | Angels Without Wings |
| Animals | Another 48 Hours | Another Day in Paradise | Any Given Sunday |
| Apocalypse Now | Apollo 13 | Armageddon | Army of Darkness, Director's Cut |
| Arsenic and Old Lace | Art of War, The | Arvottmat | Assassins |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Associates, The | At the Movies | Atonement |
| Attack of the Crab Monster | August | Autumn in New York | Avalon |
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| Banshee | Bar Hop | Barb Wire | Basic |
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| Going all the Way | GoldenEye | Golden Gate | Gone Fishing |
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| Haunting of Hill House, The | Haute Security | Havana | Haven |
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| Highwayman, The | Hiroshima | Hitchhiker, The | Hitman, The |
| Hocus Pocus | Hogan's Heroes | Holy Man | Home Before Dark |
| Home of the Brave | Homicide: Life on the Streets | Horror at 37,000 Feet | Horse, The (short film) |
| Hostage | Hostel II | Hot Spot, The | Hot Tub Time Machine |
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| How'd they Do That? | Hud | Hudsucker Proxy | Hunger |
| Hunt for Red October | Hurt Locker, The | Hush | Hustler, The |
| Hysterical Blindness | I Know My First Name is Steven | I Love Trouble | I Was a Teenage Werewolf |
| I'll Never Forget What's His Name | I'll Never Tell | I'm With Lucy | Ice House, The |
| Ice Storm, The | Idle Hands | If Dog Rabbit | Ike: Countdown To D-Day (TV Movie) |
| Illegal | Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The | Immortality | Impulse |
| In Cold Blood | In Harm's Way | In Pursuit | In the Company of Spies |
| Independence Day | Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Innocent Blood |
| Insomnia | Interceptor, The | Interested | Interns, The |
| Interpol | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Iron Giant, The | Island of Terror |
| Island, The | It Conquered the World | Isn't It Romantic | It |
| It's a Wonderful Life | Jack Said | Jackal, The | Jacket, The |
| Jackie Brown | Jackie Gleason Show, The | Jacob's Ladder | Jaded |
| Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Jennifer 8 | Jennifer's Body | Jerk, The |
| Jerry and Tom | Jerry Macguire | Jewel | JFK |
| Joe Dirt | Joe Gould's Secret | Joe Somebody | Joe the King |
| John Carpenter's Vampire | Johnny Quest | Juice | Julie & Julia |
| Jumping Ship | Junkyard Wars | Jurassic Park | Jurassic Park II |
| Jurassic Park III | Karate Kid II | Kate & Leopold | Kelley's Heros |
| Key Largo | Khauff | Kick-Ass | Kidnap |
| Kill Bill Vol. II | Kill Me Again | Killer in the Family | Killer Klowns from Outer Space |
| Killing, The | Killing Fields, The | Killing Spring, A (TV movie) | Killing Time |
| Killing Zoe | Kindred, The | Kingfish: A Story of huey P Long | King of the Hill |
| King of the Road | Kingpin | Kiss Before Dying, A | Kiss the Dragon |
| Kiss the Girls | Kiss, The | Komodo | Kremlin Letter, The |
| La Bamba | LA Confidential | La Femme Nikita | Ladies Man |
| Land of the Lost | Lansky | Last Action Hero | Last Boy Scout, The |
| Last Escape, The | Last Light | Last Man Standing | Last Seduction, The |
| Last Seduction II, The | Last Stop, The | Late Show, The | Lawn Mower Man |
| Leatherface | Leech Woman, The | Legend of Boggy Creek, The | Legend of 1900, The |
| Legion | leningrad Cowboys Go America | Leon | Leprechaun in the Hood |
| Less than Zero | Lesser Evil, The | Let Him Have It | Lethal Tender |
| Lethal Weapon 1 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Lethal Weapon 4 |
| License to Kill | Life | Life and Times of Jimmy Reardon | Life at the End of Time |
| Life with Mikey | Light in the Piazza | Lighthouse | Like Father, Like Son |
| Limey, The | Little Darlings | Little Game, A | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels |
| Locket, The | Long Kiss Goodnight, The | Longest Day, The | Lords of Discipline |
| Losers, The | Lost Souls | Love, Honor & Obey: | Low Down Dirty Shame, A |
| Luck of the Draw | Machinist, The | Mad About You | Mad Dogs and Englishmen |
| Mad Max | Made Men | Madigan | Madison |
| Magnolia | Major Payne (Trailer) | Mall Rats | Maltese Falcon |
| Mambo Kings | Mame | Man From the South | Man in the Middle |
| Man Who Wasn't There, The | Managua | Maniac Cop II | Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence |
| Maniacs | March of the Penguins (Behind the Scenes Documentary) | Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballromm Dancing and Charm School (Short Film ver.) | Marine, The |
| Mark of the Vampire | Marked for Death | Marlow | Martin's Day |
| Mask | Max | Maximum Risk | McCinsey's Island |
| Meet Joe Black | Meet the Parents | Megaman Legends | Memphis Belle |
| Men in Black MIB | Men of Honor | Men of War | Merchant of Death |
| Metal Gear Solid | Mexican, The | Miami Vice | Michael |
| Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas | Midnight Run | Midway | Millennium |
| Mimic | Mind Hunters | Missing in Action | Missing in Action 2 |
| Mission Impossible | Mission Impossible Series | Mister Roberts | Mod Squad, The |
| Mohra | Mom at Sixteen | Monster | Monster that Challenged the World, The |
| Moonlight and Valentino | Mother Jugs and Speed | Mother's Boys | Mother's Fight for Justice |
| Mr. Bojangles | Mrs. Doubtfire | Mrs. Winterbourne | Mulholland Falls |
| Multiplicity | Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The | Munich | Murder of Crows, A |
| Murphy's War | Music of Chance, The | Mutant Chronicles, The | Mutant X |
| My Best Friends Girl | My Best Friends Wedding | My Boyfiriend's Back | My Father is a Hero |
| My Favorite Martian | My Life | Mystery Train | Myth of Fingerprints, The |
| Nada Personal (Nothing Personal) | Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad | Natural Born Killers | Navy Diver |
| Near Dark | Negotiator | New Guy, The | New Jack City |
| New Life, A | New World Disorder | New York Cop | New York Crossing |
| Newton Boys, The | Next | Niagara, Niagara | Night at the Museum |
| Night at Earth | NightFall | Night Flier, The | Night Gallery |
| Night of the Creeps | Night of the Living Dead | Night People | Nightbreed |
| Nightmare | Nightmare on Elm Street, A (2010) | Nightwing | Ninth Gate, The |
| No Country For Old Men | No Mercy | Nobody | North by Northwest |
| Northern Exposure | Nothing but Trouble | Now & Then | Now Voyager |
| Nueces Para El Amor | Nutty Professor, The | Objective Burma | Oceans Eleven |
| Oceans Thirteen | Odd Angry Shot, The | Official Vietnam Documentary | Oh Brother Where Art Thou |
| OK Garage | Oliver and Company | Omen, The | Once A Thief |
| Once in the Life | Once Upon a Crime | Once Upon a Time in America | One False Move |
| One Fine Day | One Special Night | Operation Mad Ball | Operation Pacific |
| Osterman Weekend | Others, The | Out of Sight | Out of Sync |
| Out of the Past | Outer Limits | Outside Providence | Outsiders, The |
| Palmetto | Passion of Darkly Noon, The | Patton | Pay It Forward |
| Payback | Pearl Harbor | People I Know | People vs. Larry Flint, The |
| Perfect Strangers | Perfect Storm, The | Perfect World | Persons Unknown |
| Phantom of Hollywood | Phoenix | Pickup Alley | Pineapple Express |
| Pink Cadillac | Pnkfinger | Pink Floyd, The Wall | Pitch Black |
| Plan 9 From Outer Space | Planet Terror (Grindhouse) | Platoon | Play Misty for Me |
| Pleasantville | Please Remember Me | Point Break | Point of Origin |
| Pokemon | Pork Chop Hill | Postman, The | Pot of Gold Chocolates |
| Practical Magic | Preacher | Preacher's Wife, The | Predator |
| Predator 2 | Predator, The | Pretty in Pink | Principal, The |
| Professional, The | Project Alf | Project X | Prophesy III |
| Prozac Nation | PSI-Factor | Psy 2: Ostatnia krew | Psycho/Sawdust |
| Puka Pete | Pulp Fiction | Pump up the Volume | Punisher, The |
| Puppetmaster 4 | Pushover | Python | Quick and the Dead, The |
| Quiet Man, The | Rachel Getting Married | Rage | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| Rainbow Drive | Rambo | Rambo, First Blood | Rampart |
| Random Hearts | Raven | Raw Deal | Rebel Without a Cause |
| Reckless | Recoil | Red Rock West | Ref, The |
| Regard Dangeureux | Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The | Reindeer Games | Replacements, The |
| Replicant | Requiem for a Heavyweight | Reservoir Dogs | Resident Evil |
| Resident Evil 2 | Resident Evil 3 | Rest Stop | Restaurant |
| Return to the Cabin by the Lake | Ricochet | Right Stuff, The | Ring, The |
| Risky Business | Road House | Road Racers | Robocop |
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| Romeo Must Die | Ronin | Rookie, The | Ropewalk |
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| SBC Ameritech | Scandal | Scarface | Scarred City |
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| Seed | Seed of Chucky | Sergeant Terror | Set it Off |
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| Strangler, The | Street Fighter | Striking Distance | Sucker Punch |
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| Swingers | Tailor of Panama, The | Take the High Ground | Tales of the Gun |
| Tamarind Seed | Tampopo | Tank | Tanks are Coming |
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| Wheat Kings | When Strangers Appear | Where Eagles Dare | Where Love has Gone |
| White Boys | White Oleander | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Whole Nine Yards, The |
| Wicked Games | Wild at Heart | Wild One, The | Winds of War |
| Windtalkers | Windy Roads | Wings of Eagle | Wire , The (TV movie) |
| Without a Paddle | Witless Protection | Wonder Boys | Wonder Years |
| Wonderland | Woman on the Run | World's Fastest Indian, The | Wrongfully Accused |
| Wrong Man, The | Wrong Turn 2: Dead End | X Files (The Movie) | X-Men |
| X-Men II | XXX: State of the Union | Yakuza, The | Year of Living Dangerously, The |
| Year of the Dragon | Yellow Submarine | Zero Hour | Zombieland (Zippo candle lighter) |
| Zoolander |
Broadway Star
The Zippo lighter is the performer’s favorite prop. Numerous Broadway and stage productions have used the Zippo lighter to personify cool and light the way for thespians the world over. From hits like Ain’t Misbehavin’, Hairspray, Jersey Boys to STOMP the Zippo lighter has graced the stage in numerous theatrical presentations.
Featured Stage Role
STOMP
An innovative group of British performers has completed the Zippo lighter’s transformation to a musical instrument. In STOMP, the eight-person troupe combines percussion, dance, and unlikely objects to produce amusing and infectious musical numbers, one of which is performed entirely with Zippo lighters. Co-founder Luke Creswell explains the genesis of the Zippo number:
"I was in Glasgow for a big outdoor extravaganza. Everyone in the bars I went to did tricks with their Zippos... Fans of Zippos know they have a distinctive ping when they're opened - and I started thinking of that."
STOMP has been an enormous success in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia.
Also see Zippo in…
| Afterplay (Broadway/Stage) | Ain't Broadway Grand (Broadway/Stage) | Ain't Misbehavin' (Broadway/Stage) | An Interview (Broadway/Stage) |
| Backstage Charlie (Broadway/Stage) | Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (Broadway/Stage) | Blade to the Heart (Broadway/Stage) | Busker's Alley (Broadway/Stage) |
| Central Park (Broadway/Stage) | Grease (Broadway/Stage) | Guys & Dolls (Broadway/Stage) | Hairspray (Broadway/Stage) |
| Hapgood at Lincoln Center (Broadway/Stage) | Holiday Haunt (Broadway/Stage) | Hot Line (Broadway/Stage) | Jack Monty Show, The (Broadway/Stage) |
| Jersey Boys (Broadway/Stage) | Last Night of Ballyhoo, The (Broadway/Stage) | Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Broadway/Stage) | Miss Saigon (Broadway/Stage) |
| Monsters Ball (Broadway/Stage) | New York Rock (Broadway/Stage) | Nine Armenians (pens) (Broadway/Stage) | Promises, Promises (Broadway/Stage) |
| Rise & Fall of Little Voice (Broadway/Stage) | Sally Marr & Her Escorts (Broadway/Stage) | Saturday Night (Broadway/Stage) | Saturday Night Fever (Broadway/Stage) |
| Shout (Broadway/Stage) | Stomp - Ongoing project, 1995 (Stage around the world, Letterman show 1996) | Sunset Boulevard (Broadway/Stage) | Swingtime Canteen (Broadway/Stage) |
| Those the River Keep (Broadway/Stage) |
Television Star
The Zippo lighter has its presence not only in box office smash movies, but also in many TV programs. The Zippo Lady Bradford table lighter proudly graced the coffee table in the Ricardo's living room in the '50s comedy I Love Lucy. Through the decades the Zippo lighter has appeared in many top TV shows including M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and as a staple prop in the award winning Mad Men.
Featured TV Role
I Love Lucy
Zippo fans need only tune in their televisions or rent a movie from the video store to catch the Zippo lighter in performance. Fans of classic television re-runs will notice the Zippo Lady Bradford table lighter proudly gracing the coffee table in the Ricardo's living room in the '50s comedy I Love Lucy. Super fans have even counted the number of times the Lady Bradford is used in various episodes.
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| 24 | 90210 (TV Series - Episode: What's Past is Prologue) | A-Team, The | Adventures of Superman, The (TV Series episode: Panic in the Sky) |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | American Dad (TV Series - Episode: The One that got Away) | Ax Men (TV Series - Episode: King of the Mountain) | Battlestar Glactica (TV Series) |
| Beavis and Butthead | Being Human (TV Series - Season 1 Episode: You're the One that I Haunt) | Beverly Hills 90210 | Boy Meets World |
| Bruce Willis (interview) | Burn Notice (TV Series) | Case Closed (cartoon) | Cash Cab (TV Game Show - Answer) |
| Cold Case (TV Series) | COPS | Cosby Show (TV Series) | Criminal Minds (TV Series - Episodes: Elephant's Memory, With Friends Like These) |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigators | Daffy Duck (cartoon) | Dalgliesh (TV Series - Episode: A Certain Justice) | Days of Our Lives (TV Series - 2010) |
| Deadliest Warrior (TV Episode: Mafia vs. Yakuza) | Degree Antiperspirant "Stuntmen" Comercial | Delocated (Season 2 Episode 3: Dog Mayor) | Dharma & Greg |
| Digimon (cartoon) | Drug Years, The (VH1 documentary series) | ER | Elite 2001 Model Look Project |
| Falling Skies (TV Series - Season 1 Episode 4: Grace) | Family Guy | Friends | Fringe (TV Series - Season 3 Episode 16) |
| Happy Days | Heroes (TV Series) | Honeymooners, The (TV Series - Episode:Opportunity Knocks) | How I Met Your Mother (TV Series - Episode: Benefits) |
| I Love Lucy | Inspector Lynley Mysteries (Episode: A Great Deliverance) | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis, Mac's Banging the Waitress)Lighter. (Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth)MPL. | JAG |
| Jeopardy! (TV Game Show - Answers - four appearances: 7/12/99, 10/15/03, 3/29/06, 2/3/09) | Jersey Shore (TV Series / Season 3) | Judd For the Defense (TV series episodes) | Kojak (TV Series - Episode: Web of Death) |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | M*A*S*H* | MacGyver | Mad Men (TV Series) |
| Made in America | Man with a Camera (TV Series) | Married with Children (TV Series - Â Episode: Hot Off the Grill) | Men in Black (cartoon) |
| Midsomer Murders (Mystery Series) Hidden Depths episode | MTV - 10/97 (ZipLights) | Munsters, The (TV Series) | My Name is Earl (TV Series - Episode: Stole a Motorcycle) |
| Myth Busters | Naruto (Animation) | Nash Bridges | N.C.I.S (TV Series) |
| Nightman (TV Series) | O Show Commercial, The | Office, The (TV Series - Episode: The Delivery pt.1) | Original Sin (Adam Dalgleish mystery series) |
| Perry Mason (TV Episodes) | Pink Panther (Cartoon - Episode: Pink Finger) | Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV- episode: Town Without Pity) | Profiler / Episode: Pianissimo |
| Quantum Leap | Queer as Folk | Raccoons, The (Animated series: Life in the Fast Lane) | Reaper (TV Series - Season 1 Episode 10) |
| Renegade (TV Series) | Rescue Me (TV Series) | Road Rules - 3/98 (ZipLights) | Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series - Episode: Master of the Moor) |
| Scrubs (TV Series Episode) | Seinfeld - 10/97 (ZipLights) | Sons of Anarchy (TV Series) | Supernatural (TV Series) |
| Tales From the Crypt (TV Series - Season 2 Episode: Three's a Crowd) | Tales of the Unexpected (Episode: Man From the South) | Television Commercial for mobile phone app (2009) | That 70's Show (TV Series- Season 1 Episode 1: That 70s Pilot) |
| Trailer Park Boys (TV Series) | Two and a Half Men (TV - Season 5 Episode 10) | Unsolved Mysteries | Veronica Mars (TV Series) |
| Warehouse 13 (TV Series - Season 2 Episode 10: Where and When) | West Wing, The (TV Series) | Workahilics (TV Series - Season1 Episode 1) | WWF, Raw is War |
| X Files (TV Episode) | Yugioh (Series 1 Japan) |
Video Game Star
The Zippo lighter has appeared in many video games as a tool used in various ways noticeable by not only the shape but also the iconic “click” sound. The Zippo lighter even appears in the ever-popular Call of Duty franchise of games.
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| Brutal Legend (Video Game) | Call of Duty (Video Game) | Duke Nukem (Video Game) | Final Fantasy (Video Game) |
| Midnight (Video Game) | Sabotuer | Silent Hill | Silent Hill 2 |
| Star Craft: Brood War (Video Game) |
Music Star
The music world’s definition of cool… the Zippo lighter. Whether it is held high in hand at a concert or used as a musical prop in videos, on stage, or in the studio, the Zippo lighter is sure to make an appearance. Eric Clapton even used the click sound from a Zippo lighter lid opening and closing as a backing rhythm track to his hit single “It’s Probably Me.”
Featured Music Role
It's Probably Me
Sometimes a theme song sets the tone for a film. A Zippo lighter was literally instrumental in creating the mood for Lethal Weapon III, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Working on the song that eventually became "It's Probably Me", singer/songwriter Eric Clapton absentmindedly clicked his Zippo lighter in creative cogitation. The rhythmic sound finally captured his attention and provided the inspiration for the staccato melody. The Zippo lighter also plays a part in the music video as it clicks in time with, and becomes part of, the musical background.
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| 3 Doors Down | Aces and 8s by Uncle Kracker | Blues Traveler CD's | Corrosion of Conformity |
| Iron Maiden | It's Probably Me - Eric Clapton | Madonna, banned video | Mighty Mighty Bostones - Ska Core The Devil and More |
| Pink Floyd - Meedle (Remastered CD Booklet) | Q's Jook Joint (Quincy Jones) | Say You Will (Rock Video / Foreigner) |