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Sparks fly as BBC stop dicking around
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Ron and Russel Mael were invited as guests onto the Radio 1 breakfast show with Jono and Jo Good, but were surprised when they were told that they were banned from playing the song.
Unimpressed with this, the pair tried to leave the studio, but were convinced to stay by Jono, and spent the remaining time discussing why the BBC would interpret "Dick around" - which they're saying clearly means "waste time", as anything else.
Ron Mael had this to say:
The BBC has officially killed off our new single dick around, ostensibly through rather childish objections to the title, an innocent reference to the idle life.
That a piece of music can be condemned purely by its title without the 'decision makers' even having the decency to open the cd case is a travesty and an insult to both us as the creators of the music and to the listeners of the BBC
The reaction from the public to this record has been nothing but positive so the bcc should stop trying to be the morality police when it is so clearly misplaced.
The rock opera-esque Dick Around was released last week on Gut records.
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