Frankie Goes To Hollywood in 10 Feb 1984

Frankie Goes To Hollywood were at No.1 on the UK singles chart for the third week with ‘Relax.’ Eurythmics had the UK No.1 album with ‘Touch.’

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.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood signed to ZTT Records in 1983. Their debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984), produced by Trevor Horn, achieved advance sales of 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, the music journalist Paul Lester wrote that “no band has dominated a 12-month period like Frankie ruled 1984”.[7]

Johnson, Gill and O’Toole received the 1984 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for “Two Tribes”. In 1985, Frankie Goes to Hollywood won the Brit Award for British Breakthro

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