Top 10 Artists BANNED From Top of the Pops
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- The BBC loves a bit of censorship. For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 10 Songs & Artists Banned from Top of the Pops. Featuring Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Pogues, the Sex Pistols, and many more!
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And yet TOTP and the BBC protected Jimmy Saville for decades...oh but it's naughty words that will harm you!
isn't that how the wicked work? Pretend to care about moral values while-
@@imalwaysright The fucking hypocrisy, it angers me so much.
I couldn't agree more mate, I've said it for years, BBC pedophile harbouring hypocrites
Totp hypocrisy.
Yes absolutely double standards, as are still going on today?
John Lydon was considered a monster, and Jimmy Saville was considered a hero.
We ruin all the wrong people, and laud all the wrong people
This is so true!
It’s disgusting. Johnny’s a good man.
@@desertrose1226 precisely 👍
Lydon cashed Saville out years before and was banned on radio because of it.
@@terrynye7034 exactly, and nobody listened
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) lead singer of the Sex Pistols, lost Norah his wife & life partner of over 45 years the day before yesterday. She died from Alzheimer's at the age of eighty, & John who is sixty-seven was her sole carer until he realised quite recently that she also needed female company, for girly talks, & to paint her nails etc....He's actually a really sweet, & rather shy man who simply adored his wife, but realised he was being selfish, keeping her all to himself. They had no children of their own together, but adopted Norah's grandchildren when their mother was unable to care for them. He will be absolutely heartbroken & I'm sure that I won't be alone in sending much love & sympathy to John & his family.
And while the BBC were listening to music to ban, Jimmy Saville sailed through safely with their blessing!
The BBC banning your song is more like a a license to print money . Most of these songs are legendary. Whether that's down to a BBC ban or not it kind of suggests that getting your song banned is the best way to get it rocketing up to the top of the charts.
To true. Mike Reid did frankie goes to Hollywood a huge favour
exactly, Mongo Boogie....that's why i say it is set up....banning is one way ...
It didnt work for Split Enz & their song Six Months in a Leaky Boat, which only charted 83 in the UK. The song was released during the Falklands war & the BBC didnt like the reference to a leaky boat
@@sticktothefacts8905 i do. i like the reference to a leaky boat.
@@pkhodges1169 The song was about the length of time it took the original explorers/pioneers to sail to New Zealand where the band came from. But that didnt stop the BBC banning it.
Rest in peace Keith Flint
Keith Flint committed suicide by hanging himself; his body was discovered on 4 March 2019
Not missed
Rip. Sorely missed.
RIP Keith Levene
I hated his music but apparently a nice bloke...
this seems a bit petty when ya think the BBC employed Jim Saville
how set up was this? VERY.
"Savile"
And the tried to cancel j Lyndon cos he defended him
Yeah Savile was was getting away with touching up girls and the rest but that’s all good BBC haven’t clue serious Shite station anyway all the programs are Muck
@@foothand1595 "Savile"
Dale Winton introducing The Prodigy? Now there’s something you don’t see every day!
I miss Dale Winton he seemed like he didn't take himself too seriously
What your avatar mean?
@@SuperPlacido1 - It means I am vehemently opposed to the tyranny of religions. (All of them).
I choose that particular one for aesthetic reasons, in that ones depicting several religious symbols appear far too small, particularly when viewed on a phone.
@@TheHilikus89 Ah Dale Winton did seem lovely! 😊✨
Remember Dale on R2 one Saturday afternoon playing Evil Woman by Black Sabbath saying " there's something you won't hear often on the BBC!"...
Dale was fun
They should have banned more of their presenters given what we know now.
Repeats of TOTP on BBC4 are not going to be reaired if they contain Jimmy Savile and anyone else disgraced, eg. Rolf Harris and Gary Glitter (I hope this now includes R Kelly and Lostprophets on account of singer Ian Watkins)
The Serge Gainsbourg record was banned all over the BBC at the time, not just on TOTP. I recall reading somewhere that there was an announcement on the news at the time, so what happens when it’s announced that a certain record is banned? That’s right - everyone goes out and buys it. It was a #1 hit in the UK as a result.
yes they would not even play it on pick of the pops on a sunday night Iremember oh well by fleetwood mack being played bot not this one even though it was no1 for 3 weeks in oct/nov 69
It had and still has the sexiest organ ever! I dream of having my organ like that ;) I do have a Hammond but that one they used is reallly seductive, it's what makes the track.
There was a fully instrumental version by a band called 'Sounds Nice' , if memory serves, that was a lesser hit but was played.
@@totaltwit it’s always good to have a sexy organ. 😳
I never heard of that song til just now, but that’s probably because it likely never made it to the States.
Just that brief clip of Kirsty MacColl dancing with Happy Mondays is so delightful.
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U wrong about xmiley face its to do with hippies protesting against veitnsm
For the Peaches entry, the clip says that Go Buddy Go was the B side of the single, in fact this record was a double A side. If you look closely at the start of the video from TOTP, where JJ shouts 'Boogie' he actually mouths 'Bollocks', and he & Hugh swapped guitars for the (mimed) performance. They were taking the piss because the BBC wouldn't let them play it live. That showed 'em.
Same thing in Australia,..the 'Top of the Pops' equivalent 'Countdown' and its in house guru/sycophant, Ian Meldrum banned the Stranglers for playing up on other tv stations and for refusing to mime.
The ultimate version of a band taking the piss has to go to Nirvana for their version of ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ where Kurt was irritated by having to sing along to a backing track. Legendary.
And JJ sings , I got me some speed and I'm doing fine
Banned Mungo Jerry's Lady Rose as the B side was about a spliff. Yet Saville was ever present.
Have a whiff on me
I met shaun ryder, fat neck Phil and Bez when I was 14 working as a pot collector in a very busy Manchester pub. I can honestly say they was the nicest, honest and funniest guys I've met from the madchester scene. And at that point 1994 in the heart of Manchester I'd met alot.
Sorry my mistake,what I meant to say was my mate worked with Shaun's dad at the postal depo.
Did you only collect pots or did you collect pans as well?
@@duffbaker9554 a few weeks later I got asked too work in the kitchen. So yeah.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads got banned after they appeared on Top Of The Pops, dressed as policemen singing I Want To Be Straight, during a major corruption investigation of the police.
Madness got banned for doing fake miming, because the producer had no sense of humour.
Fake miming? As opposed to REAL miming I presume?
@@AtheistOrphan They mucked about, such as using another object, that wasn't an instrument, as if it was and not mouthing the words. 😁
Ian DUTY?
@@barryfowles-zl5ib I didn't write that, someone's altered it.🙄
@Julia Naylor they're far from the only people to do that though, Bob Geldof "played" a candelabra during a performance of Rat Trap in the late 70s and that was fine. Morrissey and his gladioli, Tracy Ullman with a hairbrush instead of a microphone, George Michael in his Wham days going on with no microphone at all, Fish from Marillion standing there with cards with the lyrics on and his mouth shut. They wouldn't "ban" anyone for that, loads of pop stars were at it!
I can't believe there is no mention of Judge Dread who if I remember correctly, EVERY single he ever released was banned by the BBC. He was the king of lewd and suggestive lyrics.
"Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet knickers all tattered and torn. It wasn't a spider who sat down beside her but Little Boy Blue with the horn." 😂
What was the problem BBC? :0
That's just as funny as rude .
He never got on Top Of The Pops
Didn't they have some "Big" number songs as well? Something in my murky memory has "smoke a little and plant some seed" as one of their song lyrics but I forget it's name.
Mary bloody Whitehouse !!!@
I've got that album! " The boy stood on the burning deck playing a game of cricket, the ball rolled up his trouser leg and stumped his middle wicket! "
What joy to see The Mondays with Kirsty McColl. 😍
This should be titled the top 10 songs banned, not the top 10 artists.
What I was thinking too.
Er, the first one was by an artist 🙄
@@kevinsayce2248 lol ok and the other 9 😂😂😂
Ps. First one was a song, not an artist ;)
@@badda_boom8017
Sung by an artist 😉👍
@@kevinsayce2248 they're all sung by artists 😂 but the point is, the artist isn't banned. It was the song.
Split Enz song 'Six months in a Leaky Boat' was banned owing to its release during the Falklands War. Despite being recorded prior to the outbreak of the conflict, some in Britain considered the song to be veiled criticism of the war with Argentina. The song was consequently removed from many radio play lists in the United Kingdom, including the BBC.
Wasn't Shipbuilding also banned for much the same reason?
Shame, it is a great song.
Irony Banning Radioheads "Creep" while still paying Sicko Jimmy. Should have been an Omen.
Going into the 90's I really got into metal, but always an ear out for other stuff....I like music, broad interest. The Prodigy I liked from the get go. I saw them in Amsterdam with my son, couple of months before Keith's death.....truly one of the most memorable concerts we've seen....and we saw a LOT. What an explosion of sheer joy in the crowd, it was absolutely wild and euphorious!!! 😎
As a fellow metal head, I bloody love The Prodigy. I wish I have seen them live
I got locked up 3 days before the concert and he passed away soon after and I was devastated I never got to see them 😢
I love the bands that got round the BBC's "no songs celebrating drugs or drug use" - with The Shamen's "Ebeneezer Goode" being one of the best examples. How brilliant it was that there they were singing "E's are good, E's are good!" so many times, and all the references and descriptions of the drug ecstasy, and it seemed to fly right over the BBC censors heads. (I am not condoning drug use - just celebrating the ingenuity of the band.)
How the heck did that get past the Beeb? It was so obvious!
Pretty vacant by the sex pistols - "pretty vaaaaaa-c*nt!"
@@lilymarinovic1644 I have often suspected that the BBC, were more lenient than we thought. As long as they weren't overtly saying "ecstasy is good" they let it pass. I can't believe they really didn't get it.
That song went to number 1 during Drug Awareness Week, just to really drive the point home, too. Which always makes me laugh. I mean, perfect timing.
It was banned by the BBC though I always thought? It was even often cited as one of the most famously banned songs as I recall. Like some of the songs on this list, the artist got to play it before it was banned, but it was still banned after the fact. I'm almost 100% certain this was the case for _Ebeneezer Goode_ too.
your 1st up D-Mob lead singer Daniel Kojo Poku was honoured by the King last year and awarded an MBE for his work in the music industry. So glad after all these decades the track is seen about the house music style and not the drugs and that if listeners into the drugs wished to associate the music, that's fine, but it wasn't a 'song to corrupt kids' as the tabloids had tried to sell newspapers with titles like that back in the day. Great stuff Danny D! Well deserved and yes to honour others and set paths for the new!
No. 1 rule for the Tabloids: "Never let the facts get in the way of a good headline".
My mates Mother designed the cover for the single of "Relax!!" so by it getting banned from the BBC it also catapulted her career as well. She was only 18 at the time.
Nice story! Good stuff.
@@an-alternative-contrarian5047 Thanks.
I mean she probably would have done just alright without this, but I suppose it can't hurt.
I used to go up and see him in Town and they lived in such a Gorgeous house as well, full of the most weird and wonderful things.
I wonder if Paul Ryder, Keith Levene, Jet Black, and Terry Hall are jamming together right now. With Andy Fletcher clapping his hands and dancing behind an unplugged keyboard. Rest easy guys.
No idea what this has to do with banned songs on TOTP?
@@SeeDaRipper... They all died in 2022. Research Research Research.
@@SeeDaRipper... Jet Black was in the Stranglers. And Paul Ryder was a member of The Happy Mondays. Top supergroup of the deceased.
....and of course Dave Greenfield.
I doubt it. Bellend
I loved radioheads "creep" still listen to it 😊
Gary Glitter didn't get banned.
Neither did Michael Jackson.
Comedian and impressionist Phil Pope did a send up of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax, a song called Frankie does Frankie, on which he sung Relax as if he was Frank Sinatra. 😁
Phil Pope is great, was part of the start of post pub telly with Who Dares Wins... on C4 where he did a bunch parodies, like 'Life Isn't Fair' of The Smiths. Coooeee is great as well.
@@AdjustableSquelch He was part of parody band that did send ups of groups of the era
franki goes to Hollywood upset the BBC .... but oddly they was vary happy with jimmy Savile
What about Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a Ling"?
All the music of Judge Dredd was banned from the BBC because the songs were too risqué. He stills holds the record of having the most banned hits.
Judge Rinder was better
judge dread...not the comic book character judge dredd.
His songs were laiden with rude words, but good pop reggae.
@@julianaylor4351 and realy funny
On the subject of "Je t'aime...", the BBC actually commissioned a band (Sounds Nice) to record the music without the "lyrics" and played this on TOTP when Gainsbourg got to No 1. The original Gainsbourg version with Brigitte Bardot is even better and more sensual than the Birkin one.
If you fancy a laugh, try listening to the version by June Whitfield and Frankie Howerd!
Great, more good ones for my streaming playlist.
Rock Dj by Robbie Williams was controversial that they couldn’t play the video uncut due to its graphic nature and 15 cert by the BBFC.
certainly was a strange music video!
Iconic though
The Pistols were never banned by TOTP, their single God Save The Queen was.
Weren't they banned from the BBC due to the "Dirty rotter" interview?
@@jimtheudb No, that interview was on ITV, not the BBC. John Lydon claimed about 40 years later he was banned by the BBC, but he wasn't PiL were regulars on TOTP and he also appeared on Juke Box Jury.
“Faster” by the Manic Street Preachers received the most complaints in TOTP’s history. Maybe but “Banned” by an a honourable mention.
Was Mike Read who refused to play Relax then it escalated. The Who were banned from the BBC after Townshend gave a V sign on a live TOTP doing 5-15. The ban was lifted for You Better You Bet but they released little in between the two songs
"we call it aciiid" wasn't banned by the BBC. It was just banned from TOTPs along with any other song with "acid" in the name
Wasn't I wanna be a hippy a song that got banned aswell?
didnt ban jimmy saville though did they,hypocritical indeed,jpj
Well, the BBC always stood for Better Be Clean, according to Davy Jones.
Ows about that then
They now cut his appearances from any repeats, whether it's whole programs and clip shows.
@@julianaylor4351 - ‘Now then now then!’
God Save the Queen was also played at my boarding school, in the 5th form common room down in the basement - and the challenge was to see if the whole track could be played before a teacher would come running in and confiscating the 45.
We also used to play Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury
@@Ken_oh545 - I only just discovered the cover of Shane McGowan doing Plaistow Patricia - a nice alternative.
Radiohead's Creep is about Thom having a crush on a girl at Exeter University and not having the confidence to ask her out.
Yeah. And? How is that relevant to them being banned?
@@scottw.3258 ...he is just simply stating what the song was about!!!
@@saphia7 Ye think?
@@scottw.3258 I don't think the OP was justifying the ban.
@@carlisroy6666 As i replied to 'Saphia7'... Ye think?
What about the ballad of John and Yoko - did you ban this one from your list or was it pre Top of the Flops?
I thought for sure that the song that got The Pogues banned was "Fairytale of New York", due to "crass language", but it makes sense why Brown Eyes was banned.
They had two versions with one being a bit tamer and played the tamer version is why I remember, Shane MacGowan got stuck for "conforming"
Where is there crass Words in the Fairy tale of New York ?
The BBC really are the biggest bunch of wakners ever too happen , it was alright for the Kiddie Fiddler Jimmy Savile to milk the bbc for years
And what is Queenie doing presenting totp he is a granddad
Was Mike Read who refused to play Relax. I still don't get the fuss re it.
The Stranglers were also not allowed to perform Nice N Sleazy either, after they had strippers perform on the stage with them at a concert.
wow really?
Julia Naylor
The song "Golden Brown" by the Stranglers is about a drug! However, the Stranglers did appear on “Top of the Pops” with that song; maybe the BBC overlooked it because they are too thick to recognise this.
The song Duchess also by the stranglers was banned by that BBC for blasphemy
@@redblade8160 The Stranglers performed 'Don't Bring Harry' on TOTP too which is also about heroin.
Ironically, bands like Sex Pistols and Prodigy that were banned in their own territory the U.K. became massive hits here in the U.S. Even Led Zeppelin was ignored in the U.K. in their prime. Plant and Page even mentioned it on interviews of how the England press hated them. But, here Zep are considered Gods to this day.
A girl in my class at primary school in 1989 drew clothes designs with acid badges on them and she wrote "aceid" on them. She was very creative and now makes and repairs clothes so I heard, she moved out of my area
Loose Fit - unfairly overlooked masterpiece
Having a BBc radio refusing to play your song and having it banned by the BBC are 2 completely different things. Some of which were just due to DJs and producers having a bit of a go at each other.
the pistols weren't banned because of their music,they were banned because johnny rotten outed jimmy saville in a radio interview that didn't get aired
That interview actually came a year afterwards in 1978, so no. It was banned because, as now, the BBC is pro-monarchy.
And no-one listened
@@geowynleda4641 I know we still have a monarchy.
All these banned on TOTP now they are playing songs like WAP on the radio!
liberal empowering artists have been fighting against cancel culture and maybe its finally working
I think Creep is a love song from someone who doesn't feel worthy of the love he wants...
this is the normal interpretation... but imagine if you where a peado working for the BBC how you'd feel about these lyrics
SAVILE should've been booted ever since this started airing!!! 😖😖
“The acid house genre was facing a lot of heat for being linked to drugs”😂
I think you forgot a few...Billie Holliday's "Strange fruit", Lonnie Donegan;s "Diggin' my potatoes", George Michael's "I want your sex", even Abba's "Waterloo", were all banned!
@@clrrchrd no i think it was recorded in the 40s way before totp;s
What on earth could induce the BBC to ban a wholesome song like Waterloo?
@@lilymarinovic1644 it's pointless to do so
EDM wasn't a coined term till the 2010's I believe. And Prodigy are definitely not "EDM" I mean what even is "EDM"? it's basically when Americans stopped calling all Dance Music "Techno" and decided to add "electronic" to the name. Dance music is basically a blanket terms that covers all electronic music from clubs, raves etc... it's not actually a genre.
They even banned magic roundabout by jasper carrott, despite it being a popular BBC programme lol
Not to be a prude but there is a lot of profanity in that song - I do actually own several copies of it.
@@kathrynabbott5032 lol, it was a sarcastic original comment, as I too have a copy of it
Wings first single, Give Ireland Back To The Irish was banned in 1972.
This song has been sung by many Britain’s Got Talent - how the times do change! “I mean “Creep””
The Police Invisible Sun was rarely played and the video featuring Derry banned for years.
#10. Summer of 89 in the UK was like 1969, just absolute acid-fueled mayhem. I was only 5 at the time, but sounds like quite the rager innit.
Due to the B.side So What, The Anti Nowhere League's streets of London single was banned for sale in shops
My grandad worked for the BBC from the 1950's to the 70's. He called for My Dingaling to be banned. My Uncle informed him that it was his dirty mind! Lol
Wasn't Divine banned by the BBC when he appeared on TOTP , because viewers made
complaints about how he was dressed?
The BBC merely said "At number One - a song by Wings". Give Ireland Back To The Irish was banned on TV and Radio (as with Hi, Hi, Hi. What's wrong Mojo, are these too much for you, too? Macca responded with Mary Had A LIttle Lamb (you could hear him saying "Ban that, you Bas****s"). When they finally appeared on TOTP, P & L were clearly flying!
'Hi Hi Hi' has very raunchy lyrics, I'll give them that.
OMG, how long did it take the BBC to learn that banning songs, just made the hits BIGGER!
Can’t abide the BBC and haven’t used their services for years. Peaches was one of my favourite lockdown songs, looks like I’m gonna be stuck here the whole summer, well what a bummer
RIP Caron Keating ...
Frankie goes to hollywoods leather track suit and white gloves still look the part to this day 😂
True. I love Holly Johnson's (Frankie... frontman) style, attitude and charisma there. :)
Small matter I admit, but the video is titled Artuists BANNED, bu the entries are introduced as songs that were banned.
The documentary movie HYPE explains very clearly exactly what Kurt is saying. The ‘scene’ was a media construct, it was mostly just a lot of different bands in the one place at the same time (*yes some evolved out of each other or shared members).
They should have banned some of the presenters 1st
No mention of King Kurt who were banned from ToTP for ever after dousing the lead singer in treacle and feathers!!
love frankie goes holly wood, brilliant dance tune back in the day, the stranglers prodigy, amazing we asked our french teacher to translator the words to the song and we got thrown out of class, lol ,i have the album never mind the bollocks album loved the sex pistols great tunes xx
There was an cover version of je t’aime for comic relief with Yvette and Rene from allo allo look it up and there was another song called creep by TlC in which it was raunchy.
Ain't Too Proud To Beg is far more sexually explicit than Creep and they performed it live on TOTP. Creep isn't raunchy at all in comparison
Lola by the Kinks was banned by the BBC because they used the lyrics 'Coca-Cola'! However, Kinks relented by changing the words to 'cherry cola' in order to perform on TOTP.
You're not allowed to sing 'Coca-Cola'?? What about Pulp's 'Disco 2000'... 🤔
@@hikikomoriarty brand names were not allowed on the BBC as they didn't do any advertising. Loads of songs had to be altered or not played as they mentioned brand names. This rule was relaxed eventually so wouldn't have been an issue by the time Pulp were having hits, you're thinking of Common People though, not Disco 2000 (no brand names in that 🙂)
11:18 "...but fortunately, it didn't impede their success." Not at all. Shaun Ryder did that all by himself.
getting banned from top of the pops should be a rite of passage
Yet they played Golden Brown ( the Stanglers) get played.
All about heroin.
*¡enjoyed at 4:13 am Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, 5 January 2023!*
As much as this Manc (on the blue side) loved the Madchester scene, I still think no.2 on this list should be no.1 and no.3 should be no.2. And FGTH in the bronze medal position. Mike Read did 'em a massive favour with his pious call.
the coolness factor of the Prodigy was only enhanced by this.
Cool in the eyes of pop music casuals.
They were brilliant at first, Android EP etc from 91, but by the end of 92 they had evolved into a cheese-fest of shyte.
Giving out Jim il fix badges is acceptable
We call it Aciiiid is one of those songs/ tracks which takes me right back to the time. I think I was still in secondary school at the time but an old saddo like me woulsn't have been anywhere near an acid house party or rave then. I was barely going out with mates back then and I had very little idea about the club scene in my town.
Mongo Boogie
You probably saved your own life by staying in doors and not getting involved with some acid house party...
Yeah I never went either but owned the track. I thought it was much more interesting than the music in the clubs. Doesn't really have that acid squelch either
'Ja Taime" was played on TOTP when it got to no.1. They just did a re-release without the orgasm noises.
The kettle calling the pot, comes to mind !
BBC TV are STILL censoring music videos: Over Christmas I watched ‘Madonna at the BBC’, a compilation of her BBC appearances mixed with a few videos.
In the video for ‘Like a Prayer’ Madonna cuts her hands with a knife, then opens her hands to reveal small bloody stigmata-like wounds to her palms. However the BBC version omitted the shot of her palms, only showing her reaction.
right wing cancel culture alive and well, just like when they invented it]
Where's the reply
@@livelife7428 - Someone had previously replied to my comment but for reasons unknown their reply has been deleted. By whom I do not know.
The tabloids and Tories want to sell off the BBC and attack it over content all the time. I think the Teletubbies were controversial at one point or another. Censorship seems archaic in the internet age but all content used to be heavily controlled until quite recently.
I read somewhere that S&M by Rihanna got banned by the Beeb as well (video and song)
4:08 anyone who knows the background music? who is it?
Both Roxanne and Can't Stand Losin' You by the Police were banned by the BBC.
The song was not banned because of their performance of Relax on TOTP or the raunchy lyrics of the song. It was the original video. NOT the one with the laser beams. In Holland they only showed the laser beams video. It was only in 1990 when I saw a documentary on Dutch television that i understood what FGTH was really about. I only saw the whole video in 2004 when I bought it on an "iconic 80s" DVD.
Not quite, it was getting airplay but then Radio 1 DJ Mike Read stated live on air that he was refusing to play it because of the lyrics, which forced the ban.
The Prodigy stated at the start of their career that they would never play TOTP and they never did,so when they charted and even hit #1 they wouldnt play live forcing the show to have to play the videos which they were struggling to do as Prodigy kept pushing things further with their videos!
Does anyone remember 'Wet Dream' by reggae artist Max Romeo in the late sixties? Dear old Alan Freeman on BBC radio couldn't play it or even mention the title! Took me ages to find out what it was actually called. Mind you,the lyrics were a bit explicit,even for the sixties.
Primal Scream were banned from TOTP for a few years because they failed to show up to recording once.
They used a song like whole lot of love as theme music , a bit naughty I would suggest 🤣
"WE CALL IT ACIEED" should have been banned on lack of merit alone. If that`s not money for old rope then nothing is.
Sometimes, the higher ones make ridiculous reasons to justify their banning of a song. At least, TOTP has real humans to screen the songs...UA-cam, on the other hand, uses bots which do more damage to legitimate content creators.
Nope, there were previous BBC bans. "It's Good News Week" was banned for being morbid, as was "Terry" by Twinkle.
For me, the Pistols are a shoo-in for the number one slot. Followed by Frankie.
However, Mr Ryder's choice words for that stuffed suit at the creepy Beeb have worked wonders for my mood today, so yeh, I'll let you off putting the Mondays top. 😉
I seem to remember Lil Louis French Kiss and Alice by Gompie being banned by totp too back in the 90s!
I’m sure I remember Smokey and Roy Chubby Brown performing their version in the 90s with the line “who the bleep is Alice”.
Also - French Kiss - what a tune.
French Kiss was definitely 80s