The Move - Flowers In The Rain

Here's a single with a bit of history behind it. Flowers In The Rain became the first single to be played on the new BBC radio station Radio 1 on 30th September 1967. The single was written by Roy Wood, produced by Tony Visconti and got to number 2 in that year.

To help the single chart, the band's manager thought a stunt might help give the single an edge and came up with the idea of a cartoon postcard. He featured on the card a cartoon of a naked Harold Wilson who was Prime Minister then with his secretary, but the stunt seriously backfired and the band were sued. As a result of the court decision, all royalties from the song were to be donated to a charity of Harold Wilson's choice and that still stands today and is thought to have cost the band millions of pounds in lost royalties.

I remember the single from my childhood, I will have been 2 when it came out and can always remember it being played. I always remembered what it looked like and found a similar copy on Ebay! Here's is the single