OT : TOTP 21/8/2005

[Westy 2]

Is it my imagination, or have they just edited 'Oliver's Army' ?

[Mark Leech]

They cut it to ribbons - they used to do this on TOTP2 on a regular basis.

[pete]

i thought that too

although it carried on playing back on the 2005 studio

[Jeff Vagg]

..the middle 8 with slightly contraversial lyrics about Hong Kong, London, Palestine, Chinese was chopped out. It's a short song anyway, they may have repeated part of the chorus to cover? They should instead have shown "Angels wanna wear my red shoes" from almost exactly 28 years ago.
I doubt you'll never now see an unedited "Touch too much" by AC/DC - Bon Scott's final appearance just over a week before he died - the deletion of a line with sexual content ruins the flow of the song.
Mind you, the radio edit of Rubber Bullets that 10cc performed on TOTP works really well, with the refence to "balls" removed, even though it means you only get the chorus once.

[Sal Mohammed]

Oliver's Army was shown on "Sounds of the Seventies" but I'm not sure in what form. No TOTP clips are on Elvis Costello's new DVD compilation due out in September.
www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/demon/elvis_costello.htm