Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a synth-pop band from Liverpool, England, that started in 1980. Holly Johnson (vocals), Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Peter Gill (drums, percussion), Mark O’Toole (bass guitar), as well as Brian Nash made formed the group’s most well-known lineup (guitar).
The group’s debut record, “Relax,” was outlawed by the BBC in 1984 when at number six with in charts, as well as went further to top the UK Singles Chart for five straight weeks, continuing to chart for such rest of the year and eventually has become the seventh-best-selling UK single of any and all time. It was also nominated for a Brit Award for Best British Single in 1985.
Welcome towards the Pleasuredome, its debut album, debuted at number one in the UK in 1984, including over one million copies sold in advance. Following the success of “Two Tribes” as well as “The Power of Love,” the band just became the second act in UK chart annals to see their first three singles go to number one; the first one being Gerry as well as the Pacemakers inside the 1960s. That record stood again until Spice Girls broke it in 1996–1997 with a six-single stretch.
The group received the Brit Award for British Breakthrough Group in 1985. They were nominated for Grammy Awards as well as MTV Video Music Awards for Best New Art as part of both the Second British Invasion of the United States.
The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, as well as Authors awarded Johnson, Gill, and O’Toole the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for “Two Tribes” in 1984. In a survey for ITV in 2015, this track was chosen the country’s 14th-favorite 1980s number one by the British population.
The group’s title was drawn from a page as From New Yorker magazine, displaying the title “Frankie Goes Hollywood” as well as a photo of Frank Sinatra, according to the B-side towards the group’s debut record, however the magazine page Johnson alluded to it was really a pop art poster by Guy Peellaert. The first version of “Frankie Goes to Hollywood” was formed in 1980.
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