ZANG TUUMN TUMGN IN PRINT “advertising says: the body is a business”

Full page advert for ‘Welcome to the pleasure dome’ album.

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LIFE IS THE IMPORTANT THING!

And there is only one thing better than life… ‘Welcome To The Pleasure Dome’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood: according to David Frost, you just can’t ignore it — but then, he was paid to say that.

THE SCENE.

SOME BLEAK CIRCUS, UNCOVEREDM CAREFULLY CHOSEN, VIVID NIGHT. IT IS PACKED WITH PROSPERITY, SILENT AND EXPECTANT. POSTERITY IS SILENT, LIKE THE DEAD, AND MORE PATHETIC.

CHARACTERS.

TWO HEATHEN CLOWNS, GRAVE BOOTH ANIMALS, CYNICAL ATHLETES.

DRESS.

ENORMOUS YOUNGTERS, BURSTING EVERYWHERE THROUGH HEAVY TIGHT CLOTHES, LABOURED IN BY DULL EXPLOSIVE MUSCLES, full of fiery dust and sinewy energetic air, not sap. BLACK CLOTH CUT SOMEWHERE, NOWADAYS, ON THE UPPER BALTIC.

VERY WELL ACTED BY YOU AND ME.

brian Nash “It’s pleasing to think that something we’ve done is something that will be remembered. Something we’ve done will go down as an all time classic. It becomes part of people’s lives, their memories, their hopes… But if it all ends tomorrow, we’ve had a good ride, we’ve seen what it’s like.”

paul Rutherford “I’m not cuddly all the time… I’m just myself… People keep telling me that I’m their favourite Frankie and all that… Yes, big fucking deal again. I just don’t deal out the bullshit, it’s an important part of being in this group. Look at what I do… I’m naked there, it’s just me, doing it. I don’t have an instrument, I don’t have a great voice, I just have some nice clothes maybe. But, I mean, big deal.”

mark O’Toole “So really, I’m never honest. Ever. Everything I say is complete lies. Like, when people ask you what ’Relax’ was about, when it first came out we used to pretend it was about motivation, and really it was about shagging.”

holly Johnson “I enjoy certain things, no one else has to enjoy them, and I see certain things in a certain way, but no one else has to see those things in the same way. And then again, no one has the right to tell me it’s immoral or selfish or wrong to do what I do.”

peter Gill “If I was trying to impress people, trying hard like, I think I would come in wearing big expensive flashy clothes and I wouldn’t run around shouting bollocks and all that. If I wanted to be suave I wouldn’t throw wet toilet rolls out of the window at people… But I’m not Bryan Ferry, I’m no cool pop star, I just have a laugh and people respect me for that.”

If a single atom contains so much energy, what about man himself in whom there are universes of atoms? If it is energy he worships, who does he not look at himself? If he can conceive, and demonstrate to his own satisfaction the boundless energy imprisoned in an infinitesimal atom, what then of those Niagaras within him? And what of the earth’s energy, to speak of but another infinitesimal conglomeration of matter? If we are looking for demons to harness, then there is such an infinitude of them that the though is paralysing. Or — if is so exhalting that men should be running breathlessly from door to door spreading delirium and pandemonium. IQ 1… number four in zang tuum tumb’s artificial action series… “ztt has no movement, it has not followers, it just has consumers” …so said the slut-bellied obstructionist. So? — so yawned the superstitious ztt.

FRANKIE will not go mad to please you.

Frankie will not flatter you with an early death.

On NO they will stick it out.

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