Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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„WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME“ steht unter einer farbenfrohen Illustration von fünf stilisierten, tanzenden Personen.

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Label:: ZTT
Year of recording ca.:: 1984
Item number:: 4495227
UPC/EAN:: 0698458813220
Release date:: 30.10.2009

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WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME was one of the biggest British LPs of the 1980s. It features Frankie’s four biggest hits: Relax, Two Tribes, The Power of Love and, of course, Welcome to the Pleasuredome.

Very few labels score three number one singles in their first year of business. But then very few labels sign bands like Frankie Goes To Hollywood. From obscurity to infamy and back again in less than five years, Frankie Goes To Hollywood defined the early era of ZTT and – for many – 80s music in general. Their first three singles all hit number one (a record in itself) and each tackled a taboo head on: sex, war, religion.

The band had formed from shards of Liverpool’s explosive new wave scene. Holly Johnson (lead vocals) was ex-Big In Japan. Paul Rutherford (vocals and “I came to dance”) was ex-Pink Military. Mark O’Toole (bass), Ped Gill (drums) and Brian Nash (guitar) were “the hammer that knocked the nail in.” In a story that’s been told 1, 000 times, Trevor Horn kicked back one night during another frustratingly lengthy session on Yes’ 90125 and saw Frankie performing a rough and ready, sexed-up Relax (In Heaven Everything Is Fine) on Channel 4’s The Tube. ZTT was but a twinkle in his eye – and all the major labels had already turned Frankie down – but when Trevor saw the band he wanted to make them ZTT’s first signing, and he wanted to make them massive.

FGTH’s debut single: Relax. Was number one in 18 countries, it was banned live on Radio 1 by Mike Read for its explicit lyrics. The video received the same treatment, from the UK’s Mary Whitehouse-fearing TV stations. The more the furore brewed, the bigger Frankie became. Relax stayed at number one for six weeks and sold 13 million copies worldwide.

The follow-up – Two Tribes – was just as big and beautiful. It went to number one around the world, and had a groundbreaking video directed by Godley & Creme. It also pushed the idea of mix / remix / make / remake further and further as Trevor Horn and his ‘Theam’ (as Paul Morley called them) created a bounty of remixes.

By the end of 1984, the third number one single was released. As a song, The Power of Love wasn’t particularly about religion. And it wasn’t particularly about Christmas either, but when combined with ZTT’s imagery and imagination, it became something bigger. The sleeve was like a stained glass window, every edition was housed in a ‘gift envelope’, and a crucifix was added to the equation of graphics and logos that footnoted every sleeve and advert.

Welcome to the Pleasuredome holds the UK record for advance album sales, which reached 1.1m in 1984, instantly catapulting the album to the No. 1 spot and spent a further 66 weeks within the album chart. The album continues to be revered as one of the defining albums of the 80s era.

Mit diesem Klassiker startet das Salvo Label seine Reissue-Serie von Original-alben auf dem ZTT Label.

Mit seinen erfolgreichen Remasters von Madness, Slade, Nazareth, Procol Harum, The Undertones und The Move hat Salvo viel Kritikerlob geerntet und auch Verkäufe verzeichnet – die ZTT-Serie soll diesen Trend weiter fortsetzen!

Das 1984er Debütalbum der Liverpooler Band um Sänger Holly Johnson hat sich weltweit millionenfach verkauft und enthält ihre vier größten Hits, ’Relax’, ’Two Tribes’, ’The Power Of Love’ und ’Welcome To The Pleasuredome’, die allesamt ebenfalls unzählige Käufer gefunden haben.

Die insgesamt 17 Tracks wurden von Trevor Horn produziert und bilden zusammen einen absoluten Meilenstein der 1980er Musikge-schichte.

Für diese Reissue hat Tim Turan, der auch an den Salvo-Remasters von Madness, Slade und Nazareth arbeitet(e), die Tracks von den Originalbändern digital neu gemastert, um bestmögliche Klangqualität zu gewährleisten.