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Artist: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:

The World Is My Oyster (Including Well/Snatch Of Fury)
Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
Relax
War
Two Tribes
(Tag)
Fury
Born To Run
San Jose
Wish The Lads Were Here
The Ballad Of 32
Krisco Kisses
Black Night White Light
The Only Star In Heaven
The Power Of Love
Bang

Music reviews of Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Music Review: Shooting stars & super nova's
Rating: 5 Stars

Holly came from Miami, Fla...(Walk on the wild side-LOU REED, 1973).
William "Holly" Johnson (former leader of FGTH) picked up his nickname from the songs infamous shemale character & that was
no coincidence.
Star producer Trevor Horn (ex BUGGLES) didn't choose Holly to lead his Liverpudian super project by coincidence either.
This double album-although it contains 3 or 4 mediocre songs,
has left very little to chance.
At first, the phrase Holly is singing in the beginning of both LP's: Life, goes on day after day (a tribute to Gerry & the Pacemakers' hymn Ferry Across the Mersey from 1964).
Did you know that Gerry Marsden & his band in 1963 & Frankie
G. T. H. in 1984 were the two first acts in British chart
history to have their first three singles become # 1?
Frankie's singles Relax & Two Tribes are among the Top 5
best-selling singles of the 80's in the British charts.
Did you know that Relax can be heard in two of the most
succesful movies of 1984: Body Double, starring Melanie
Griffith, in the scene where Holly / Melanie (notice the
name!) is shooting a p..n movie. Also in blockbuster Police
Academy, in the scene where Mahoney (S. Guttenberg) is
trying to park a car in full parking lot.
Relax was banned by the BBC for it's "obscene" message, not to
mention the controversial - shot in homophile esthetic, video.
Two Tribes stayed 9 weeks in the top of the British charts and
its anti-war message was accompanied by a hilarious GODLEY &
CREME video, featuring two Reagan (US President)& Cernenko
(Secretary of the S.U.) lookalikes fighting in a kind of Rocky
box game.
Frankie's third consecutive # 1 in the UK was Power of Love, a superb hymn to the Almighty, a true classic radio ballad in my
country.
The group has always shown a strenght in song covers.
In this LP the best cover version is Burt Bacharach / Hal
David's Do you know the way to San Jose, originally recorded
by Dionne Warwick in 1968. Holly sings in a Sinatra mood this
gentle bossa nova, one of my Top 10 favorite covers of all
times.
Apart from Trevor Horn's magic touch there is another strong
presence in this album: ZTT's Label mates J. J. Jeczalik
& Anne Dudley (ART OF NOISE).
Though it isn't totally clear how much the other band members contributed to Frankie's LP's (it's been said that they
acted as straw men & that session musicians provided all
the studio material) the band is recorded in contemporary
music history as the most succesful act in Europe for the year 1984.

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