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Horn very cleverly marshalled the two aparently irreconcilable areas of musical taste in the group - Holly and rutherford's fondness for Hi-NRG and The Lads' admiration for the then-deeply unfashionable Pink Floyd. The mix made them irresistable to a vast range of British youth (It is notable that they were the first major pop act for about ten years not to have a "tribal" following), while it also accounts for their relative failure in the US, where their genre-hopping confused radio programmers.
Just some trivia: Frankie Goes to Hollywood was also a computer game, on the commodore C64. It was quite good... roan (The game also appeared on the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. The music was rather better on the C64)
I added the game article to Wikipedia. Felsir 11:54, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
FGTH were at "Rock around the Dock", a special concert as part of the renovation of the Liverpool docklands area. They did "Rage Hard" and "Warriors of the Wasteland". There is some measure of dispute over whether they were genuinely playing live, however. (If anyone has more info, that would be great.) I don't know if this was their only special, but it seems unlikely.
On a different node, FGTH was a major part of the musical revival in Britain, and Britain was kicking into high gear on revival in general. (The Liverpool Docks project, plus an effort to revive inner cities by turning scrubland into extensive international gardens were all during the same years.) It would be interesting to know how the attitudes of the time shaped FGTH and vice versa. (The music reflects the times, but the times also reflect the music. The relationship is rarely one-sided.)
"This rumour eventually gelled into the general accusation that "Frankie cannot play", since the group were unavailable for touring duties during the whole of 1984."
Not true. The same weekend that the first album was released (ie the last of October), FGTH flew to America for their first US tour. I don't know how many dates they played, but they were sure as hell live when they played "Born to Run" on Saturday Night Live. It is, however, true that Frankie's public performances during their summer-1984 peak consisted entirely of miming to "Relax" and "Two Tribes" on various European pop programmes.
I have removed "the seasonal Power of Love" as PoL is not a Christmas record. It happened to come out at Christmas and be FGTH's shot at the Christmas number one, and had a comically ornate nativity video with this in mind, but to lump it in with "I Believe in Father Christmas", Slade, Wizzard et al is just misleading.
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