the bonzos' began to be featured more regularly on television and radio during 1968. the group also became a popular live attraction off the back of their ongoing tour schedule, continuing with the working men's clubs and now also taking in the nightclub and university circuits. all this hard work began to pay off when the group achieved a top five hit single in october with neil innes' "i'm the urban spaceman", produced by paul mccartney and gus dudgeon under the collective pseudonym "apollo c. vermouth".