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(Contact Music) Sad Holly Johnson urges fans to relax, as there will never be a Frankie Goes to Hollywood reunion; a fight split the band into two tribes   (contactmusic.com) divider line 33
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lajimi [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 08:35:34 AM  
Frankie Goes to west Hollywood and Frankie Goes to North Hollywood

 
Bufu [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 08:56:21 AM  
Relax, already.

 
Sybarite [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 09:08:17 AM  
Don't Do It!

 
Bufu [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 09:22:45 AM  
When you want to...come!

 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 10:27:21 AM  
I hear they hit him
[Hit him]
Hit him with those laser beams.

 
The English Major [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 11:03:45 AM  
Live those dreams.
Scheme those schemes.

 
CarnySaur 2009-11-05 11:09:56 AM  
She was my favorite of the Girls Next Door.

 
LewDux 2009-11-05 11:12:48 AM  
I heard Aretha Franklin invented rock'n'roll

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 11:30:09 AM  
Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

 
Mr_E_Squirrel 2009-11-05 11:30:34 AM  
He has the Magic Johnson Gene... 18+ years HIV Positive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Johnson

 
Pepperjack 2009-11-05 11:39:24 AM  
In Relax, about 3/4 of the way through, you can make out "won't you suck me" in the background. You can see Holly lip synch it quite clearly in the video. Most people don't notice it. Or the "what the fark waaaaaas that" in EMF's "Unbelievable".

 
jj325 [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 11:40:36 AM  
Tramps like them, baby they were born to run

Link (new window)

 
Drunk Astronaut 2009-11-05 11:44:40 AM  
The world is surely crushed that FGTH won't have a reunion to play their one good song.

What's next? Bjork will refuse to scream?

 
jordawesome 2009-11-05 11:56:02 AM  
Mr_E_Squirrel: He has the Magic Johnson Gene... 18+ years HIV Positive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Johnson


Must have something to do with the Johnson.

 
mrEdude 2009-11-05 12:23:59 PM  
Calling FGTH a 'band' is giving them waaay too much credit.

 
mhd 2009-11-05 12:27:18 PM  
Little known fact: Playing FGTH's "Born to Run" cover will cause one out of two Jerseyites to implode.

 
Midnight Rambler 2009-11-05 12:31:54 PM  
I dunno, I kind of liked her in "Ice Castles", and I'm glad she doesn't want to "go Hollywood" on us.

Wouldn't mind seeing her reunite with Roger Connery for another James Bond flick, tho.

 
solcofn [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 12:35:33 PM  
A point is all you can score

 
amindtat 2009-11-05 12:40:00 PM  
vernonFL: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

Seconded. I credit the production by Trevor Horn.

 
Tyler823 2009-11-05 12:44:15 PM  
Who?

 
Nightmaretony 2009-11-05 01:19:13 PM  
amindtat: vernonFL: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

Seconded. I credit the production by Trevor Horn.


THIS

 
The English Major [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 01:24:06 PM  
Nightmaretony: amindtat: vernonFL: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

Seconded. I credit the production by Trevor Horn.

THIS


For those of you who don't know how great a producer Trevor Horn is, here's a great CD of his best works. (new window)

 
radioman_ 2009-11-05 01:52:51 PM  
And singer Johnson admits he knew he was through with the group when a bandmate challenged him to a fistfight slapfight.

Fixed.

 
sotua 2009-11-05 02:00:16 PM  
LewDux: I heard Aretha Franklin invented rock'n'rollthe piano key neck tie

FTFY

 
182 2009-11-05 02:20:30 PM  
jordawesome: Mr_E_Squirrel: He has the Magic Johnson Gene... 18+ years HIV Positive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Johnson

Must have something to do with the Johnson.


that's the way to suck to it.

 
Tigggy 2009-11-05 03:15:24 PM  
jordawesome: Mr_E_Squirrel: He has the Magic Johnson Gene... 18+ years HIV Positive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Johnson

Must have something to do with the Johnson.


That works on so many levels.

 
ParadisePornoTheater 2009-11-05 03:23:39 PM  
Three #1 hits in the UK from the first album, one of them being a manipulative Xmas song/video - it was all downhill from there.

 
chemical_angel [TotalFark] 2009-11-05 07:23:35 PM  
At least one has been band has the self respect to stay the f+ck in the past.

 
Loud_Mouth_Soup 2009-11-05 09:59:31 PM  
Nightmaretony: amindtat: vernonFL: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

Seconded. I credit the production by Trevor Horn.

THIS



Actually, they did do a reunion (new window) at the Trevor Horn 25th Anniversary celebration in 2004, but with Ryan Molloy on vocals, not Holly.

Brian Nash also didn't take part, but Jed O'Toole, Mark's brother and an original member, took Nash's place.

Still an awesome performance, though. What a band they really were.


/likes the Liverpool album
//I admit it

 
Badgers 2009-11-06 12:45:19 AM  
The English Major: Nightmaretony: amindtat: vernonFL: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

Seconded. I credit the production by Trevor Horn.

THIS

For those of you who don't know how great a producer Trevor Horn is, here's a great CD of his best works. (new window)


... and then there was the abortion that was T.A.T.U.'s "200 km the wrong lane" ...

Sometimes you just have to say no, Trevor, no matter how much money they're offering.

 
Japancakes [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 01:54:39 AM  
vernonFL: Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a really good record.

One of my 50 fave-o-rite albums from the 1980's.

To a lesser but still hefty degree, I also really enjoyed "Liverpool"

 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 06:45:49 AM  
Holly Johnson always stuck me as being an egotistical douchebag.

This just seals that reputation for me.

 
atomic-age [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 11:59:08 PM  
Pepperjack: In Relax, about 3/4 of the way through, you can make out "won't you suck me" in the background. You can see Holly lip synch it quite clearly in the video. Most people don't notice it. Or the "what the fark waaaaaas that" in EMF's "Unbelievable".

Are you kidding? If there was anything the slightest bit nasty in any song, I could find it.

I remember reading an article at the time Relax was first released in the US about their writing the song. They claimed to have written it in one of the band members' bedrooms.

/bet they did.
//come

 
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