the mandolin soloist for Rod Stewart on "Maggie May." The Top of the Pops miming policy occasionally led to unintended consequences, such as in 1988 when All About Eve appeared for the song "Martha's Harbour" and the televised audience could hear the song but the band could not. As the opening verse began, unknowing lead singer Julianne Regan remained silent on a stool on stage while Tim Bricheno (the only other band member present) did not play his guitar. An unseen stagehand apparently prompted them that something was wrong in time to mime along to the second verse. The band were invited back the following week, and chose to sing live. United States During Whitney Houston's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" with a full orchestra before Super Bowl XXV, a prerecorded version was used. Orchestra director Kathryn Holm McManus revealed in 2001: "At the game, everyone was playing, and Whitney was singing, but there were no live microphones. ... Everyone was lip synching or finger-synching." British backing singer Margo Buchanan angrily left a 2011 Dolly Parton concert because of the extensive use of vocal and instrumental miming. She described it as "artistically dishonest and unfair to musicians who work hard at perfecting their craft," but she was unable to persuade the Musicians’ Union to become involved in lobbying to curtail the use of miming. The Red Hot Chili Peppers drew the ire of many on social media after they performed at Super Bowl XLVIII with their instruments unplugged, which made it obvious that they were miming. Bassist Flea stated after the show that the "... band were offered no other option [other than miming] by Super Bowl organizers." The Eurovision Song Contest has banned lip-synching during the broadcasts. However, "musical instruments have to form part of the pre-recorded track, which means [instrumentalists] are effectively mim[ing]" the playing of their instruments during the TV broadcast. Violinist Natalie Holt threw eggs at Simon Cowell, the creator of Britain’s Got Talent, in what she called a "... protest because she was angry that backing musicians don’t play live." Holt said that she "... took a stand against people miming on TV and against Simon Cowell and his dreadful influence on the music industry." A spokesperson for the show told reporters that miming is "standard practice for backing musicians during TV performances as it isn’t possible to easily capture the quality of the sound