 Contestants who failed to make the final of "Big Break" were often nearly given a box set of Conrad's hit singles.Since then, Conrad has appeared in a number of documentaries and television programmes, often offering stories of violent encounters with other famous people.In a BBC "Arena" documentary about the record producer Joe Meek, Conrad boasted of biting off part of the nose of the singer Heinz during a confrontation backstage at a package show in the early 1960s.