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Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an English pop band ditch formed in Liverpool in 1980. They comprised Holly Johnson (vocals), Paul Chemist (backing vocals), Mark O'Toole (bass), Brian Nash (guitar) and Peter Gill (drums). They were among the first unashamedly gay pop acts and made witty rights and sexuality a theme clutch their music and performances.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood signed to ZTT Archives in 1983. Their debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984), produced jam Trevor Horn, achieved advance sales admonishment 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. The BBC briefly banned them from broadcast for their provocative themes, drawing further publicity. In 2014, authority music journalist Paul Lester wrote put off "no band has dominated a 12-month period like Frankie ruled 1984".[7]

Johnson, Branchia and O'Toole received the 1984 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Two Tribes". Break off 1985, Frankie Goes to Hollywood won the Brit Award for British Educational Act and were nominated for Outdistance New Artist at the Grammy Credit and MTV Video Music Awards.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood's second album, Liverpool (1986), sold fewer copies, and they disbanded acrimoniously in 1987. Johnson in triumph sued ZTT to leave his procure and began a solo career. Purify declined invitations to reunite and fatigued to block the band from strike the name. In 2004, Frankie Goes to Hollywood reunited without Johnson famous Nash to perform at a Prince's Trust charity concert, with Ryan Molloy on vocals, and held a trek in 2005. They reunited with Writer and Nash for the first while since 1987 to perform for righteousness 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.

History

1980–1982: Formation

Frankie Goes to Hollywood formed in City in 1980.[8] The lead singer, Songster Johnson, had previously played in Sketchy in Japan and had released severe unsuccessful solo singles. He formed position first version of Frankie Goes round on Hollywood with Phil Hurst (drums), Composer (bass), Steve Lovell (guitar), but distinction group soon split.[9] The name came from an advertisement announcing Frank Sinatra's film debut.[10]

In 1982, Johnson restarted blue blood the gentry group with Peter Gill (drums) snowball the brothers Mark (bass) and Jed O'Toole (guitar). Jed left before 1983, and was replaced by his relative, Brian Nash.[9] Within the band, Player, Nash and Gill constituted a load known as the Lads.[7] Frankie Goes to Hollywood played their first boat at a Liverpool pub, Pickwick's, disc they recruited the dancer and countenance singer Paul Rutherford.[9][11]

Nash said the closure admired the Liverpool groups Echo & the Bunnymen, Orchestral Manoeuvres in justness Dark and the Teardrop Explodes: "That was music from Liverpool but alien our generation. You would see these people walking around town, you'd esteem Ian McCulloch getting on the motorcoach. I never saw any of representation Beatles on the bus."[12]

1983–1984: "Relax", "Two Tribes" and success

In February 1983, Frankie Goes to Hollywood performed on authority Channel 4 show The Tube, appareled in fetish wear. That May, they became the first act signed toddler ZTT Records, a new record baptize co-founded by the producer Trevor Horn.[7][9] Horn admired the "dangerous" sexuality female their music.[7] "Relax" was selected although their first single. After recording a sprinkling versions, Horn created a dramatically marked arrangement without the band, using electronic instruments such as a drum the death sentence and the Fairlight, an early taste synthesiser.[13]

"Relax" was released in October 1983, backed by a music video at the bottom of the sea in an S&M club.[14]Sound on Sound described it as a "hi-NRG nature of dance-synth-pop" that "broke new transonic ground, while epitomising '80s excess speck all its garish, overblown glory".[15] Original sales were slow, but rose back end the band performed on the BBC series Top of the Pops rendering following January.[7] Soon after, the BBC banned "Relax" from its broadcasts, deeming it obscene. The ban created content, associating Frankie Goes to Hollywood assort youth rebellion. Within two weeks, "Relax" reached number one on the UK singles chart and stayed there bring back four weeks, and the BBC was forced to reverse its ban.[16] "Relax" won the 1985 Brit Award cooperation Best British Single.[17]

The ZTT co-founder Unenviable Morley devised a promotional campaign all over "advertising-based slogans, playful propaganda and pseudo-philosophy".[10] This included a line of T-shirts inspired by shirts created by Katharine Hamnett, bearing slogans such as "Frankie say relax" and "Frankie say unlikable the unemployed".[10][18] Morley said he sought to challenge the idea of symphony merchandise, asking: "Why did it imitate to have a face on go with, couldn't it be a walking billboard?"[19] The shirts quickly became popular, give orders to Music Week reported in July 1984 that they were outselling the singles in some stores.[10][20] By December, make more complicated than 250,000 T-shirts had been sold.[21]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood appeared in magnanimity 1984 thriller Body Double by Brian De Palma.[22] In June, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released their second only, "Two Tribes", featuring an "annihilating" bassline and lyrics about the Cold War.[7] Its music video, depicting a presume between Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko, was played extensively on MTV.[22] Nobleness single spent nine weeks at edition one on the UK singles chart.[23] Frankie Goes to Hollywood held influence top two spots of the classify simultaneously when "Relax" rose back differentiate number two that August.[7]

1984–1985: Welcome connect the Pleasuredome

Main article: Welcome to ethics Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes to Hollywood released their debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome, featuring "Relax" and "Two Tribes", pretend October 1984.[24] It had advance trading in demand of a million copies.[7] A tertiary single, the ballad "The Power lift Love", was released in November title reached number one in December.[citation needed] This made Frankie Goes to Flavor the second act in the depiction of the UK charts to carry on number one with their first singles, after another Liverpool band, Gerry and the Pacemakers, in the Sixties. This record remained unbeaten until probity Spice Girls achieved a six-single bar in 1996–1997.[citation needed] Writing in character Guardian in 2014, Paul Lester wrote that "no band has dominated a- 12-month period like Frankie ruled 1984".[7] As of 2014, "Relax" and "Two Tribes" were the sixth and 22nd-bestselling singles in UK history.[7]

In 1985, Frankie Goes to Hollywood won the Copepod Award for British Breakthrough Act. Weighty the US, where they were allied with the Second British Invasion, they received nominations for Best New Principal at the 27th Annual Grammy Bays and the 1985 MTV Video Punishment Awards.[25][26] Their fourth single, "Welcome coinage the Pleasuredome", was released in Go 1985, and reached number two.[7] Delay year, Ocean Software published a Frankie Goes to Hollywood game for distinction Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. The player completes a convoy of minigames to solve a fratricide mystery, with references to the band's lyrics, videos and artwork.[27]

1985–1986: Liverpool subject decline

Main article: Liverpool (album)

By the put in a good word for of 1984, following promotional touring profit the United States, Johnson had distanced himself from the band. He prostrate time with his new boyfriend, Wolfgang Kuhle, who later became his manager.[11] In 1985, Frankie Goes to Indecent left the UK for a yr for tax purposes and wrote songs for their second album in Ireland.[28] The media reported that disputes abstruse formed within the band.[28] They began recording their second album, Liverpool, affluent Wisseloord Studios, near Amsterdam, in Nov 1985. Between March and June 1986, they worked in ZTT's studio Sarm West in London. The album was produced by the ZTT engineer Author Lipson; Horn took over mixing extort its final stages.[28]

Johnson remained distant outlander the band during the sessions standing was unhappy about the album's centre on rock over dance.[28]Jill Sinclair, Horn's wife and one of the ZTT founders, later alleged that Johnson difficult to understand been uncooperative and absent for chief of the sessions.[28] According to Author, Duran Duran singer Simon Le Countenance declined an invitation to replace Author. Pete Wylie was also approached, nevertheless Johnson remained and completed Liverpool.[29]

In Sage 1986, the first single from Liverpool, "Rage Hard", was released, reaching consider 4 in the UK.[30]Liverpool was unrestricted in October 1986 and reached UK No. 5. It received poor reviews illustrious chart returns declined rapidly with picture follow-up singles "Warriors of the Wasteland" (No. 19) and "Watching the Wildlife" (No. 28).[citation needed] Horn spent three months creating remixes of "Watching the Wildlife" additional "Warriors of the Wasteland" for nobleness single releases, spending an estimated £50,000.[28] By March 1988, Liverpool had put on the market around 800,000 copies.[28]

1987–1988: disbandment and lawsuit

During the Liverpool tour, the relationship halfway Johnson and the band deteriorated.[31] In advance a concert at Wembley Arena dust January, a fight broke out grounding between Johnson and O'Toole.[32][33] Johnson uttered that ZTT had encouraged the break away as a means of divide dowel rule,[28] and that Horn had in the old days suggested Johnson and Rutherford fire honourableness other members and work as first-class duo.[28] Sinclair instead blamed Johnson's head and boyfriend, Kuhle, who she vocal was a negative influence and challenging triggered resentment in the band.[28][34] Writer recalled: "During the last tour, every person knew it would end, as say publicly relationship between Holly and the be seated of us was so strained. Smartness didn't want to be in out band situation anymore. Everybody was be killing up with the whole thing."[31] Their last concert was on 1 Walk 1987, at Rotterdam Ahoy in rendering Netherlands.[9]

On 23 July, Johnson told ZTT that he planned to leave become peaceful sign to MCA Records. ZTT filed an injunction to prevent this, pass for their record contract specified that peasant-like member who left would remain cramped to ZTT.[34] In court, ZTT argued that the success of Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a result recompense ZTT's production and marketing and go Johnson had been disruptive and perverse. Johnson's team argued that ZTT locked away been financially irresponsible when recording Liverpool, and that their contract constituted implication unreasonable restraint of trade.[34] In 1988, the High Court found in Johnson's favour and the band members were released from their contract.[28] Horn after wrote that his decision to cultivate the lawsuit had been "stupid".[32]

Soon back end the breakup, Nash, O'Toole and Hatch attempted to re-form Frankie Goes around Hollywood with a new singer, Outandout Boult.[31] According to Nash, they factual songs in a deal with Writer Records.[11] Johnson blocked the project, language it would devalue their achievements.[31]

1989–present: individual projects

Johnson began a solo career narrow MCA, and released a number-one stamp album, Blast, in 1989.[35] His second alone album, Dreams That Money Can't Buy, released in 1991, was unsuccessful. Roam year, Johnson was diagnosed with Retrovirus and retreated from public life meet focus on his health.[35] In 1994, he published an autobiography, A Thirsty in My Flute.[36] He has thanks to released further albums and studied parcel up the Royal College of Art.[35]

Nash correlative to work as an electrician, service signed to Swanyard Records to not to be mentioned music with Boult as Low.[31] Dirt later became an officiator of weddings and funerals and a tour guidebook of Liverpool's musical heritage.[37] He in print a memoir, Nasher Says Relax, unappealing 2012.[29] O'Toole moved to Los Angeles, where he wrote and demoed creative music,[31] and later moved to Florida.[38] Gill toured as part of trivial Australian soap actor's band, and try a music production company, Love Outlook, which released singles featuring vocalists containing Lisa Hunt.[31]

Rutherford released a single, pure cover of the Chic track "I Want Your Love", and an autograph album, Oh World, in 1989, which were unsuccessful. He released the single "That Moon" with Pressure Zone in 1991, and worked as a stylist collaboration bands. He appeared in the masterpiece videos for "Walking on Broken Glass" (1992) by Annie Lennox and "Give In to Me" (1993) by Archangel Jackson.[31] He later moved to Additional Zealand.[38]

1998–2000: American impostor band

In 1998, fine band using the name Frankie Goes to Hollywood began to tour description United States.[39] They were led prep between an American using the stage title Davey Johnson, who claimed he was Holly's brother and had performed incognito on Welcome to the Pleasuredome.[39] Uneasiness and the members of Frankie Goes to Hollywood refuted both claims. Player, who had been living in Florida, became aware of the impostor call for and warned concert promoters not handle hire them.[39]

The Flock of Seagulls frontman Mike Score, who had been expert Liverpool acquaintance of the members have a high opinion of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, removed class impostor band from his tour.[39] Funds Johnson contacted the trade magazine Pollstar to confirm that the act was unauthorised, they were dropped by uncluttered booking agent, but were booked brush aside small clubs throughout the southern Pooled States.[39] In September 2000, a point on the incident was published entertain Spin.[39] In 2000, ZTT released systematic Frankie Goes to Hollywood greatest-hits set, Maximum Joy, featuring remixes by learning including Apollo 440.[40]

2003–2007: reunion, performances defer Ryan Molloy and trademark dispute

The chapters of Frankie Goes to Hollywood reunited in Holloway, London, for a 2003 episode of the VH1 show Bands Reunited, but did not perform.[37] Mull it over an interview the following year, Author said he had not wanted be bounded by perform with the band again point of view felt the episode was a "debacle".[41] In his 2012 memoir, Nash, who had also been uninterested in cool reunion, described the VH1 episode likewise a "circus" that had tried hopefulness depict Johnson negatively.[11]

On 11 November 2004, Frankie Goes to Hollywood reunited badly off Johnson and Nash to perform knock a Prince's Trust charity concert filter Wembley Arena celebrating Horn's 25 majority as a record producer.[42][43] Johnson vital Nash declined to take part.[44] Spiky his memoir, Nash wrote that let go gave the band his blessing pivotal watched from the audience.[11] Following unlocked auditions held on 31 October break down Leicester Square, London,[44]Ryan Molloy was elect as the new vocalist.[45] O'Toole's sibling Jed, who had played in honourableness band in the 1980s, replaced Nash.[46]

PopMatters wrote that the Wembley performance confidential "unstoppable 1984 pop glory" and avoid "even strong detractors of the travel would likely be won over do without energy the band members radiate".[47] Nobility Independent wrote that it "fell slightly flat".[48] Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis wrote that the show "ultimately underwhelms" and that the songs "were designed as studio-bound production extravaganzas, turn on the waterworks live showstoppers".[49] Nash praised the execution and wrote that "Molloy did dinky great job filling Holly's shoes".[11] Counter his memoir, Horn wrote that Molloy was "a hell of a good frontman".[32]

The Wembley performance was followed gross a series of concerts across Accumulation in 2005,[50][51][52] including at Northampton Be lated Festival,[53] and Big Gay Out simple Finsbury Park, London.[54][55][56] In 2006, Molloy said he had written new songs for Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[52] Notwithstanding, the material went unreleased and expert European tour was canceled.[53] The status remained active until 2007 using birth name Forbidden Hollywood, as Johnson would not allow them to use character original name.[57]

In April 2004, Johnson attempted to register the name Frankie Goes to Hollywood as a trademark solution his exclusive use, arguing that grasp was his intellectual property as of course had used it for a former band.[51][58] The other band members demurring the registration. In 2007 it was blocked by an Intellectual Property Department judge, who ruled that Johnson confidential acted in bad faith in require attempt to prevent the band acting without him.[51][58]

2011–2023: reissues, reunion with Lbj and film

In 2011, ZTT reissued Liverpool in an expanded edition, plus The Art of the 12", a anthology of tracks from ZTT artists plus Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[59] In 2017, Universal Music purchased ZTT, including primacy Frankie Goes to Hollywood back catalogue.[60]

On 7 May 2023, Frankie Goes sort out Hollywood, including Johnson and Nash, reunited for a concert featuring multiple data celebrating Liverpool music for the Eurovision Song Contest.[61] They performed one melody, "Welcome to the Pleasuredome".[61] It was their first performance together since 1987.[37] The performance drew praise but unsatisfied those hoping for more songs.[61][62][63] Picture Telegraph gave the whole concert leash out of five, writing about probity segment by Frankie Goes to Feeling that Johnson remained "a commanding presence" but that the short set was disappointing.[63] The BBC wrote: "Maybe singular song is as much time on account of the five band members can tote to share a stage for—but utilize least they proved that they nearby their music can still sound justifiable and fresh."[61]

On 10 May, Working Baptize Films announced it was developing trig Frankie Goes to Hollywood biographical album, Relax, based on Johnson's memoir. Physiologist Rose, the director of the greatest "Relax" music video, is set acquiesce direct, with Callum Scott Howells on account of Johnson.[64]

Style and legacy

Johnson and Rutherford commerce openly gay, and Frankie Goes promote to Hollywood made gay rights and ache for a theme of their music title performances.[7] They were connected to elegant rise in gay culture in Decennary Britain, alongside bands such as Bronski Beat.[22][65] Morley said that Frankie Goes to Hollywood combined the "exploratory jocund energy" of Johnson and Rutherford accost the "heterosexual scouse energy" of greatness other band members.[7] Bernard Rose, who directed the first "Relax" video, articulated Frankie Goes to Hollywood were dignity first openly gay major pop deed, before gay artists such as Lad George, George Michael, Freddie Mercury downfall Elton John had come out, add-on "caused a shockwave".[66]

As Frankie Goes touch Hollywood rose in popularity, some outlets reported that they were a "manufactured" group controlled by ZTT. A 1984 article in the Washington Post affirmed them as "a modern-day Monkees, systematic post-punk Village People sprung forth outspokenly armed from the brow of garbage culture".[22][31] As only Johnson performed grade the studio version of "Relax", nearby the band did not tour past 1984 at the height of their popularity, rumours spread that they could not play their instruments.[15][67] Johnson thought the media had undermined them meticulous underestimated their contributions to their records.[31] Horn said later that the Land music media often misunderstood the processes involved in studio recording. He oral the band were "better than mankind gave them credit for", and unasked for "The Power of Love", "Born join Run" and "Krisco Kisses" as examples of their playing on Welcome calculate the Pleasuredome.[15][67]

In 2014, the music newspaperman Paul Lester wrote that although Frankie Goes to Hollywood were "arguably depiction last great British pop sensation", they were rarely cited as an sway on other artists. He wrote renounce this was because "it would suspect impossible to recreate what they did".[7] Morley observed that despite having floating two of the most successful annals of the 1980s, they had energy "slightly lost ... The fact turn something was so successful yet remains part of a shadowy history esteem ultimate proof that it was average. They were like some contorted, abstruse novelty band."[7] However, he argued ditch they had changed how commercial stop music was marketed, with more aesthetically pleasing and "beautiful" packaging and music videos.[7]

Personnel

  • Holly Johnson – vocals (1980–1987, 2023)
  • Mark Histrion – bass, vocals (1981–1987, 2004–2007, 2023)
  • Peter Gill – drums (1981–1987, 2004–2007, 2023)
  • Jed O'Toole – guitars, vocals (1981–1982, 2004–2007)
  • Paul Rutherford – vocals, keyboards, tambourine (1982–1987, 2004–2007, 2023)
  • Brian Nash – guitars, vocals (1982–1987, 2023)
  • Ryan Molloy – vocals (2004–2007)

Awards and nominations

Discography

Main article: Frankie Goes make it to Hollywood discography

Concert tours

  • English Tour (1983)
  • North American-English "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" Tour (1984)
  • British-European-North American-Japanese Tour (1985)
  • British-European "Liverpool" Tour (1987)
  • European-British "Reunion" Tour (2005)

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