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| From | Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: An incredible simulation |
| Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:28:50 -0600 |
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‘Top of the Pops’? Didn't the BBC get upset?
-Farrar Hudkins
Mark Smith wrote:
> In a similar fashion there was a whole run of albums under the Top Of The
> Pops name in the UK. Always featured covers of the chart hits of the day
> and
> always featured a scantily clad woman on the front cover. The kind of thing
> you're Auntie would buy at Christmas not knowing any better. They were big
> sellers though at a certain point in the 70's. Lots of poor stuff of course
> but they were brave - tackling the likes of Bohemian Rhapsody, Wuthering
> Heights or Anarchy In The UK. Admitedly the last of these is pretty poor
> but
> Bo-Rhap is creditable given the time they probably had to record it and
> their budget constraints.
>
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