Music Appreciation

mahatmakanejeeves

(64,380 posts) Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:10 PM Mar 21

On this day, March 21, 1973, the BBC banned all teenybopper acts from appearing on Top Of The Pops.

I don't know. There doesn't seem to be a reliable source for this, like the BBC itself. It sounds a bit too good to be true. Anyway:

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What Happened Today In Music

March 21st

1973 - David Cassidy
The BBC banned all teenybopper acts appearing on UK TV show, Top Of The Pops after a riot following a David Cassidy performance.

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On this day, March 21, 1973, the BBC banned all teenybopper acts from appearing on Top Of The Pops. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 21 OP

It apparently happened. The David Cassidy website blog notes the BBC ban. Eugene Mar 21 #1

Eugene

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1. It apparently happened. The David Cassidy website blog notes the BBC ban.

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Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:32 PM

Mar 21

A search shows a newspaper headline "Pop Star Mobbed 60 hurt" .

Also Cassidy got mobbed in the UK on a regular basis from 1972 until he quit in 1974.

Crushed to death at a David Cassidy concert (The Independent - 1974)

EDIT: P.S. Recalling memories of the 1970s when this kind of mayhem was considered normal. Those were the days.

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