in a live broadcast environment." In 2011, singer Katy Perry was caught miming the recorder during a performance of "Big Pimpin'" but claimed afterward that the episode was a joke. Artists intentionally showing they are miming In some cases where producers have insisted that bands mime their performance on TV broadcasts, the performers have protested this practice by making it obvious that they are not playing live. Before Frank Zappa appeared live on Detroit TV in 1966, the producer threatened the band to "Lip-sync your hit—or else." Zappa went to the TV studio's props department, "gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set" and instructed each band member to perform repeated physical movements during the mimed song (though not in time with the music). The band Blue Cheer performed on American Bandstand in 1968, deliberately miming out of sync with their song "Summertime Blues." When progressive rock band Marillion played on Top of the Pops in 1983, the show's producer Michael Hurll insisted that the band pretend to play and sing while the recording played on air. However, lead singer Fish kept his mouth closed and made a gesture when the line "I'm miming" played. When Iron Maiden appeared on German TV in 1986, they were not allowed to play live. The band made it clear that they were pretending to play and passed instruments around as a recording of their song "Wasted Years" played on the broadcast. The band swapped instruments; drummer Nicko McBrain moved out from "behind the drums to take center stage for the chorus, and he’s handed a bass [to pretend to play], and Harris winds up behind the drums... At one point, three members are playing drums simultaneously, McBrain puts his hands on Adrian Smith’s guitar neck [strings] in the middle of the solo." For more than 40 years, major bands and artists appeared on the UK show Top of the Pops, with the producers insisting that the performers would either "lip-sync or sing along with a prerecorded backing track" for the TV broadcast. In 1984, Morrissey "sang" into a fern instead of a microphone for "This Charming Man." When Nirvana was not allowed play their instruments live on Top Of The Pops, singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain did not pretend to play his instrument as the prerecorded played on the broadcast. When Muse performed on the Italian TV show Quelli che... il Calcio, the