Frankie Goes to Hollywood perform early stripped-down version of "Relax" before it was released

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Also, it was banned for being ‘obscene’ by the BBC (obviously not by Channel 4) and so at the end of Top of the Pops every week, they would announce that it was still #1 and then cut to the credits.

…releasing different remixes and 12"s including one with the BBC DJ Mike Read announcing he wasn’t going to play the track 'cos it was obscene.

I was reading the excellent "Good Night and Good Riddance" by David Cavanagh (How 35 years of John Peel changed modern life) last night and also just got to the time when this was banned but John Peel just kept playing it.