JimN wrote:The Move ... almost immediately got themselves into some sort of trouble with Prime Minister Harold Wilson (can't remember exactly what it was, but whatever it cost them was worth its weight in gold) and gradually started to move to a more dissolute image....
... The group started to fall apart around 1968, with the loss of second guitarist Trevor Burton after a newspaper revelation which these days, would probably cause a prime minister to leap to his defence....
JN
The "trouble" was the publicity for the record featuring a naked Wilson, which led to a libel action by the prime minister.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/11/newsid_2542000/2542413.stmOne reason, perhaps, why that PM was never likely to leap to the defence of anyone in the band! Although Wilson was the type that could have done. He did procure MBEs for the Beatles.