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Fact #158469

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Short story:

UK tv show Top Of The Pops celebrates its 20th birthday. By a happy coincidence, two artists in this week’s chart, Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard, were also in the Top 20 for the first show. The show is also memorable as the first TOTP appearance of Frankie Goes To Hollywood singing Relax.

Full article:

Trevor Horn (producer, Relax) : The morning after Top Of The Pops, we sold 54,000 records and a week later we were banned. I was surprised that it wasn’t banned the first minute they heard it.
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