Fact #180856

Tony Burrows : I had four records out at the same time, I had previously started recording solo titles. They all got released, and all sold. That was because of Top Of The Pops, which has been running for about thirty years, was a major television show. I did three of the titles on one particular night on the show (with the Edison Lighthouse, White Plains and the Brotherhood of Man.) Imagine changing clothes on the side of the sets to appear with different bands! After that, the producer came and spoke to me, "I ought to tell you something, Tony. I had the word from above you're not to be used again." I asked what he was talking about. He said, “One particular wag from upstairs says this doesn't look right. It looks as if there's something wrong with the situation where you appear with all these different bands.”

Well, you asked us to do these shows. If you got on the chart, you go out and plug it, do the show. They're all selling and you asked us to do the show and that's what we've done. But he said, "Well, I just thought I ought to tell you." To be quite honest, I got banned from BBC Radio for two years. That was the period when I had the solo records, and I really and truly couldn't get played. We had no commercial radio in those days, just BBC.
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