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FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Liverpool, GB
* 1981

Line-Up (2023):

Holly Johnson - voc
Paul Rutherford - voc
Brian Nash - g
Mark O'Toole - bg
Peter Gill - ds

Former Members:

Gerard O'Toole (g, do 1983)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Welcome To The Pleasuredome (2LP)	29.10.1984	ZTT		1	33
2.	Bang! (in Japan)	1985	ZTT/Island
3.	Liverpool	20.10.1986	ZTT		5	88
4.	Bang! The Greatest Hits Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood	18.10.1993	ZTT		4
5.	Reload - The Whole 12 Inches	5/1994	ZTT
6.	Maximum Joy	9/2000	ZTT		54
7.	The Club Mixes 2000	02.10.2000	ZTT
8.	Twelve Inches	21.02.2006	ZTT
9.	Frankie Say Greatest Hits (2CD)	02.11.2009	AATW/UMTV		27
10.	Sex Mix: Archive Tapes & Studio Adventures Volume One (2CD)	22.08.2012	Salvo
11.	Frankie Said: The Very Best Of Frankie Gies To Hollywood	13.11.2012	Salvo		87
12.	Best of Frankie Goes To Hollywood	08.10.2013	Metro Select
13.	Frankie Said (2LP)	19.08.2014	Let Them Eat Vinyl
14.	80's Interview Picture Disc	18.11.2014	JDC
15.	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	30.06.2015
16.	Simply Frankie Goes to Hollywood Tin	30.06.2015	Simply
17.	The First 48 Inches Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood	4/2018
18.	The Essential	1/2022	Spectrum Music		87

Holly Johnson:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Blast	4/1989	MCA		1
2.	Hollelujah	7/1990	MCA
3.	Dreams That Money Can't Buy	5/1991	MCA
4.	Soulstream	04.10.1999	Pleasuredome
5.	Europa	27.09.2014	Pleasuredome

Paul Rutherford:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Oh World	1989	4th&Broadway

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Relax / One September Monday 12" + Ferry 'Cross The Mersey produced by: Trevor Horn	31.10.1983	ZTT	1	10
2.	Two Tribes / One February Friday 12" + War (Hide Yourself) produced by: Trevor Horn	28.05.1984	ZTT	1	43
3.	The Power Of Love / The World Is My Oyster 12" + Holier Than Thou / The Power Of Love (instrumental) 12" + Welcome To The Pleasuredome (pleasure fix) / The Only Star In Heaven (star fix)	09.11.1984	ZTT	1
4.	Welcome To The Pleasuredome / Get It On / Happy Hi! 12"(1) + Relax (International) 12"(2) + Born To Run (live) produced by: Trevor Horn	18.03.1985	ZTT	1	48
5.	Pleasurepak (A promo)	1985	Island
6.	Rage Hard / (Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind 12" + Suffragette City / Roadhouse Blues	22.08.1986	ZTT	2
7.	Warriors Of The Wasteland / A Phenomenon Of Megabytes	11.11.1986	ZTT	14
8.	Watching The Wild Life / The Waves 12" + Wildlife (Bit 3 & 4)	23.02.1987	ZTT	22
9.	Relax '93 / Relax MCMXCIII	20.09.1993	ZTT	4
10.	Welcome To The Pleasuredome	08.11.1993	ZTT	17
11.	The Power Of Love / Rage Hard (vocal edit) CD + Holier Than Thou (no rest for the best)	06.12.1993	ZTT	9
12.	Two Tribes (Fluke's minimix)	14.02.1994	ZTT	20
13.	The Power Of Love 99	20.12.1999		56
	The Power Of Love (Rob Searle, Minky remixes)	19.06.2000	ZTT	6
14.	Two Tribes (remixes)	14.08.2000	ZTT	17
15.	Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Nalin & Kane remixes)	23.10.2000	Superfly	45
16.	The Power Of Love (The Orphean remix, Perez & Prabo remix)	30.04.2001	ARS Club
17.	Relax (Peter Rauhofer "Doomsday" mix & "New York" 12" mix)	21.05.2001	Star 69
	Relax (Saeed & Palash "Full String" mix & Coldcut remix)	06.08.2001	Star 69
18.	Welcome To The Pleasuredome (2005 remixes) / Words (Mac Devila extended vocal mix)	13.12.2004	Vale Music
19.	DMC Club Cuts 279 (Relax, It's Frankie.. / Gangsters Paradise (D&B mix) / Ain't Got No, I Got Life (Promo remix)/Sweetest Feeling (K-Klub mix)) & Coolio & Nina Simone & Liz McLarnon	03.04.2006	DMC
20.	The Power Of Love	12/2008
21.	The Power Of Love	12/2009	Repertoire	42
22.	The Eye Has It	16.04.2013	Salvo
23.	Relax (30 Anniversary Edition) / Ferry Cross The Mersey (Sex Mix Edition 3)	12.02.2014	Salvo

Paul Rutherford:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Get Real / Happy Face	9/1988	4th&Broadway	47
2.	I Want Your Love / Get Real 12",CD + I Want Your L.U.R.V.E. / Pushed Away	3/1989	4th&Broadway	82
3.	Oh World / Seduction	8/1989	4th&Broadway	61
4.	That Moon / Swingin' On with Pressure Zone	1990	Beat Farm
5.	Serious Beats 50 Vinyl 6 / 11 (Get Real (Happy house mix) / Play With The Voice In Germany / Voices) & Joe T Vannelli & Csilla & KC Flight	17.07.2006	541

Holly Johnson:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Yankee Rose / Treasure Island / Desperate Dan	12/1979	Eric's
2.	Hobo Joe / The Stars Of The Bars	1980	Eric's
3.	Love Train / Murder In Paradise	12/1988	MCA	5	65
4.	Americanos	3/1989	MCA	2
5.	Atomic City / Beat the System	6/1989	MCA	18
6.	Heaven's Here / Hollelujah	9/1989	MCA	62
7.	Where's Love Gone / Perfume	11/1990	MCA	73
8.	Across The Universe / Funky Paradise	3/1991	MCA	99
9.	The People Want To Dance CD + Love Train (anxious big beat version)	8/1991	MCA
10.	Legendary Children (All Of Them Queer)	03.10.1994	Club Tools
11.	Love And Hate & Ryuichi Sakamoto	10.10.1994	Elektra
12.	Disco Heaven	06.09.1999	Pleasuredome
13.	Follow Your Heart	17.07.2014	Pleasuredome
14.	Dancing With No Fear	18.06.2015	Pleasuredome
15.	Follow Your Heart (Tom Moulton remixes)	13.11.2015	Pleasuredome

Videos:

1. From A Wasteland To An Artificial Paradise - 1985, RCA
2. Rage Hard - 9/1986, ZTT, promo
3. Shoot! The Greatest Hits - 12/1993, ZTT
4. Frankie Say Greatest - 31.10.2009, UMTV, compilation

Holly Johnson:

1. Blast The Video - 1990, MCA

Movies:

1. Bony a klid (1987, directed by Vít Olmer)

Bibliography:

Bruno Hizer: The Story Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood (11/1984, Proteus)
Holly Johnson: A Bone In My Flute (1994, Century, autobiography)

Awards:

1984 Melody Maker Single Of The Year ("Two Tribes")
1985 Brit Awards

- Best British Newcomer
- Best British Single ("Relax")

Various:

8/80-1981 Hollycaust
disbanded 1987
2004-2007 Forbidden Hollywood
reunited 4/2023

Holly Johnson:

Compilation Appearances:

"Ferry Cross The Mersey" on live LP "You'll Never Walk Alone" (2.6.97, V2, & Lightning Seeds)

appeared on the LP:

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Sweet Revenge *1994, For Life)

own label Pleasuredome

Mark O'Toole:

produced by SP:

Mauritius: It's Our Future (10.3.03, Mauritius)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1983	37	10.09.1983	14	It's Alive	gig review
1983	46	12.11.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	52	24.12.1983	14		interview
1984	5	04.02.1984	4	Fast Forward
1984	11	17.03.1984	5	Fast Forward
1984	23	09.06.1984	31	Singles	single review
1984	25	04.08.1984	26	Video
1984	33	29.09.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	34	06.10.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	38	03.11.1984	27	Albums	album review
1984	40	17.11.1984	33	Books
1984	45	22.12.1984	6	Talk Talk Talk - Awards Of 1984
1993	1	02.01.1993	39	Info Freako
1993	38	18.09.1993	36	Singles	single review
1993	45	06.11.1993	33	Albums - Retroactive	album review
1993	50	11.12.1993	38	Videos
1993	51	18.12.1993	27	Singles	single review
1995	13	01.04.1995	11	A.W.O.L.	profile
1996	17	27.04.1996	56		single review
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1993	24	15.12.1993	29	Recenze	album review
2001	5		74		interview
2004	5		8	Pelmel
2010	1		63	Recenze CD	album review
Rolling Stone
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2000	5		63
2000	6		84	12 nej ...