Thankfully, he was mistaken - he’s still alive and doing well his last single was released last year on the Eddie the Eagle soundtrack. In 1991, Johnson learned he was HIV positive - he feared he would soon die, so he wrote an autobiography, A Bone in the Flute. Johnson released six albums under his own name, and his debut, Blast, was a number 1 hit in the UK. Holly Johnson did have a successful solo career. There were even a couple reunion tours, though they didn’t include Johnson nor original guitarist Brian Nash. Remarkably for a band with only two albums, there are 13 different compilations of demos, remixes, and greatest hits. Still, Frankie Goes to Hollywood are still a respected act. The Liverpool videos are more about chasing trends than making them. To repeat the success of the golden days.While Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s videos for the first album proved a huge influence on the art of music videos, it’s sad to watch them fall so far. Production, but from a commercial point of view the song was never going Horn, a decent chorus, and the controversial lyrics that the record-buying public came toĮxpect from the band. With lyrics inspired by the poet Dylan Thomas - these are arguably some of the band's best lyrics - the song featured a more rock-orientated sound than previous releases, but lacked the production skills of Trevor Three chart-topping releases Relax, Two Tribes and The Power Of Love.
Was far from a flop, it never achieved the success of Frankie's first Top the charts in Germany and reached #2 in Ireland. Released in August 1986 (seventeen months after the Welcome To The Pleasuredome The Broad Version version has a rather weird intro, but once it finally gets going then it becomes a decent enough listen. In an interesting Top Of The Pops performance, the band appear to have just robbed a bank! At one point, the cameraman runs into lead singer Holly Johnson, who, in response, sticks his middle finger up to him!Īs with all of the Frankie singles, there are quite a number of remixes of the single, and the original UK 12" vinyl release included the Broad Version, Roadhouse Blues, ( Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind and Always Note The Sequencer. Relax in checkered sleeve with white Island labels with 'Island' logo printed in red, yellow & blue letters with -SP suffix.
Relax in checkered sleeve with black/silver labels with blue outer ring, blue/yellow Island logo with -SP suffix. "Rage Hard" was Frankie's fifth chart hit, and it was the first single to be lifted from the Liverpool album. Relax in original picture sleeve (two people) with Island 'Giant 45' labels with -SP suffix on labels.
Several other T-shirts were also released, including "Frankie Say War - Hide Yourself!", and "Frankie Say Arm The Unemployed", although these weren't quite as successful. The Katherine Hamnett inspired Frankie Say Relax T-shirt became as big as the single. The ban also helped sales of Now That's What I Call Music 2, on which, "Relax" featured. "Relax" also re-entered the UK charts and reached No.2 whilst the follow-up single, "Two Tribes", was still hogging the limelight at No.1. Of course, after the ban, the single then rocketed to No.1 and stayed there for five weeks, and even today it remains in the top ten best-selling UK singles chart, having sold over 2 million copies. The actor playing the Emperor was John Dair, who you may remember as Harry Grout's bodyguard "Crusher" in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge.
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I remember the band's manager, Paul Morley, stating in a TV interview that the guy was "urinating", although the song is about ejaculation, which is why I have always been a little confused about what he is actually doing. Well, a fat guy who looks like Emperor Nero pulling down his pants and appearing to either urinate or ejaculate on the lead singer is pretty disgusting. The video was also banned from daytime TV as it was also deemed to be too sexually explicit.
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