Soon after, the BBC banned "Relax" from its radio and television broadcasts, deeming it obscene.
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Initial sales were slow, but rose after the band appeared on the BBC series Top of the Pops the following January. Sound on Sound described it as a " hi-NRG brand of dance-synth-pop" that "broke new sonic ground, while epitomising '80s excess in all its garish, overblown glory". "Relax" was released in October 1983, backed by a music video set in an S&M club. After recording several versions, Horn created a dramatically different arrangement without the band, using electronic instruments such as a drum machines and the Fairlight, an early sampling synthesiser. " Relax" was selected as their first single.
Horn admired the "dangerous" sexuality of their music.
That May, they became the first act signed by ZTT Records, a new record label co-founded by the producer Trevor Horn. In February 1983, Frankie Goes to Hollywood performed on the Channel 4 show The Tube, dressed in fetish wear. I never saw any of the Beatles on the bus." 1983-1984: "Relax", "Two Tribes" and success Trevor Horn, pictured in 1984 wearing a Frankie Goes to Hollywood shirt, signed the band to ZTT and produced their first album. You would see these people walking around town, you'd see Ian McCulloch getting on the bus. Nash said the band admired the Liverpool bands Echo & the Bunnymen, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the Teardrop Explodes: "That was music from Liverpool but from our generation. Frankie Goes to Hollywood played their first gig at a Liverpool pub, Pickwicks, where they recruited the dancer and backing singer Paul Rutherford. Within the band, O'Toole, Nash and Gill constituted a group known as the Lads. Jed left in 1983, replaced by his cousin, Brian Nash. In 1982, Johnson restarted the group with Peter Gill (drums) and the brothers Mark (bass) and Jed O'Toole (guitar). He formed the first version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood with local musicians, but the group soon split. The lead singer, Holly Johnson, had previously played in Big in Japan and had released some unsuccessful solo singles. Their name comes from an advertisement announcing the first film by Frank Sinatra. History 1980: formation įrankie Goes to Hollywood formed in Liverpool in 1980. The original band members reunited for the first time since 1987 to perform for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. In 2004, Frankie Goes to Hollywood reunited without Johnson and Nash to perform at a Prince's Trust charity concert, with Ryan Molloy on vocals. He declined invitations to reunite and blocked the band from using the name without him. Johnson successfully sued ZTT to leave his contract and began a solo career. In 1985, Frankie Goes to Hollywood won the Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act and were nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards and MTV Video Music Awards.įrankie Goes to Hollywood's second album, Liverpool (1986), sold fewer copies, and they disbanded acrimoniously in 1987. Johnson, Gill and O'Toole received the 1984 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Two Tribes". In 2014, the music journalist Paul Lester wrote that "no band has dominated a 12-month period like Frankie ruled 1984". Their provocative sexual themes led them to be briefly banned by the BBC, drawing further publicity. Their debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984), produced by Trevor Horn, achieved advance sales of more than a million, and their first three singles, " Relax", " Two Tribes" and " The Power of Love", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. They comprise Holly Johnson (vocals) and Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Mark O'Toole (bass), Brian Nash (guitar) and Peter Gill (drums).įrankie Goes to Hollywood signed to ZTT Records in 1983. Frankie Goes to Hollywood are an English pop band formed in Liverpool in 1980.
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