Master and Servant 100 chart anyway, albeit only at number 87 and for only a three-week chart stay). Reportedly, the song narrowly avoided a radio ban by the BBC as well. "Master and Servant" might have been banned if the one BBC staffer who wanted to ban the record had not been away on holiday at the time the other staffers voted on whether to add "Master and Servant" to their playlist. The production and mixing process of "Master and Servant" are remembered by Alan Wilder, Daniel Miller, and Gareth Jones, as among the longest that Depeche Mode ever endured. One famous story
Billboard Top Pop Hits Billboard Top Pop Hits Billboard Top Pop Hits is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1994 and 1995, each featuring ten recordings from the easy listening charts from a specific year in the 1960s. Ten albums in the series were released, one each for the years from 1960 to 1969. The tracks compiled for the series represented the "lighter" side of popular music in the 1960s. All of the tracks were major hits on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart during the year as well as its new Easy Listening chart, which debuted in 1961. The series