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Topic History of: Top of the Pops Secrets and Scandals
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Author	Message
NCS	Payola, Egton House, whom (you don’t have to name real names) pray tell?
MCR	robbiex wrote: https://www.channel5.com/show/top-of-the-pops-secrets-scandals Interesting documentary, even if most of it has already being shown on the bbc 4 series "Top of the Pops - the storey of....". It features Pete Murray at 96 years old, still with us, almost forgotten, and looking quite frail, but nice to see him again. The only new thing that I learned from it was that Steely Span recorded the wombles backing track for them, and thus had to perform on the show in the womble costumes. Pete Murray had a show on Boom Radio last Christmas and i believe another has been recorded for this year He's 97 now
Rick	It's the payola allegations that most merit a doc. I doubt there was anything that dramatic historically but it used to be a 'normal' aspect of life at Egton House and elsewhere.
NCS	Thanks robbiex for posting the the link. Some interesting insights. The commentator was terrible though.
dav	Mike Batt (creator and musician of The Wombles) is still making music today and being quite entrepreneurial. www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62322352