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Posted on: June 25th, 2004, 12:37am

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London: A veteran British disc jockey has been suspended from his morning radio show for defying a ban on playing Cliff Richard records.

Bosses at Classic Gold Digital radio fired off a furious email to Tony Blackburn, a pioneer of pop music radio in Britain, to say it was against company policy to play tracks from the 63-year-old knight.

Blackburn retaliated by ripping up the warning live on air, then playing two Cliff Richard hits: We Don't Talk Any More and Living Doll. Within minutes he was suspended.

"Tony is gutted," said a friend quoted by Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency.

"He defied the management because so many listeners have requested Cliff tracks ... Tony hopes the situation can be resolved so he can get back to his show."

The flap goes back to the start of the week, when Blackburn, told not to play any more Cliff Richard songs, defiantly played the ageing chart-topper's best-known tune, Summer Holiday.

In its email, Classic Gold Digital said it did not want to hear anything from Richard - whose first hit was in 1958 - because "he doesn't match our brand values".

The managing director of Classic Gold, John Baish, said Blackburn had been asked to take "a 24-hour breather".

"We don't want Tony to leave; we want to resolve the issue."

Mr Baish said yesterday that station management "had nothing against Cliff Richard".

"At the moment our music policy doesn't include him but that is always open to change," he said. "There are lots of artists who are not currently included on our playlist. We don't play any Shakin' Stevens either."

Richard has had almost 50 Top 20 hits in Britain.

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