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Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an English pop band that formed in Liverpool in 1980. They comprised Holly Johnson (vocals), Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Mark O'Toole (bass), Brian Nash (guitar) and Peter Gill (drums). They were among the first openly gay pop acts and made gay rights and sexuality a theme of their music and performances.
In 2009, The Sunday Times called Frankie Goes To Hollywood “the biggest British pop group since the Beatles and the most controversial since the Sex Pistols”. Formed in late 1981.
Initially issued as a single in November 1984, and taken from the debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984), "The Power of Love" followed its two predecessors, "Relax" and "Two Tribes", to the top of the UK singles chart. It scored the band an early December number-one.
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Jun 11, 2024 · When the BBC banned ‘Relax’, the debut single from the Liverpudlian group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, it climbed to the top of the charts, displacing Paul McCartney’s feeble ‘Pipes of Peace’ from that coveted spot.
One of the more controversial pop groups of the 1980s, Frankie Goes To Hollywood was formed in Liverpool, England, in 1982, by singer William 'Holly' Johnson, a one-time member of the...
Feb 27, 2020 · Frankie Goes To Hollywood orchestrated 3 No.1 UK singles with their first three releases, smashing a chart record that stood for two decades.
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" Relax " is the debut single by English new wave band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the United Kingdom by ZTT Records in 1983. The hit version, produced by Trevor Horn and featuring the band along with other musicians, entered the UK Top 75 singles chart in November 1983 but did not crack the Top 40 until early January 1984.
