Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Welcome to the pleasure dome
Type: Album
Format: 12" photo disc vinyl ×2
Label: Zang Tuum Tumb
Catalogue ref.: NEAT1
Series: Washed Action series no. 5; IQ series no. 1
Release date: 29 October 1984
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chart position: Album-UK: (Starting 4/11/1984) 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 5; 6; 6; 5; 6; 8; 12; 13; 16; 21; 15; 23; 33; 27; 27; 14; 9; 9; 7; 13; 18; 18; 25; 32; 31; 37; 39; 41; 50; 58; 64; 61; 88; 72; 66; 76; x; 79; 82; 92; 80 (29/9/1985) 59; 79; 67; 90; 78; 89 (26/1/1986) 90 (24/8/1986) 94; 97; 85; x; 99; 54; 83 (12/2/1995) 62; 95; 37; 24; 38; 36; 76 (23/2/1997) 96 (18/4/2010) 79
Album-USA Billboard 200: (Peak 15/12/1984) 33
Single-UK: (Starting 24/03/1985) 5; 2; 2; 5; 12; 24; 39; 56; 69; 72; 72; x; 85; 88
Single-USA Billboard Top 100: (Starting 6/4/1985) 84; 66; 56; 51; 48; 48; 58; 93
Single-USA Billboard Dance Single Sales: (Peak 4/5/1985) 22
Single-USA Billboard Dance Club Songs: (Peak 1/6/1985) 31
Sleeve design: XL Design; ZTT
Photographer: Peter Ashworth; Anton Corbijn
Side 1
Side 2
Side 3
Side 4
Occasionally the tracklisting printed on the sleeve art of a release isn’t 100% accurate. Tracks may be missing, mixes unspecified or misnamed. For this reason a more accurate actual tracklisting is shown alongside the printed tracklisting.
Outer sleeve: Front
a souvenir
johnson
gill
nash
o’toole
rutherford
WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME
(ZTT logo)
Outer sleeve: Gatefold
“IT’S DOUBTFUL WHETHER ANY BAND EVER BEFORE HAD SO MUCH FUN OR GAVE SUCH JOYFUL HILARITY TO IT’S LISTENERS.”
nash: guitar
“something we’ve done will go down as an all time classic.”
ped: drums
“i’m not Bryan Ferry.”
holly: voice
“no-one has the right to tell me it’s immoral or selfish or wrong to do what i do”
mark: bass
“so really, i’m never honest. ever.”
paul: dance
“i think i know that life is going to be quite short so i want to spend it the way i want to.”
Tell me where you want to go heavens above and hells below the pleasure seekers are dying to me ya they need young blood the angels can take you there you’d better beware of devil may care.
“Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold such high esteem.”
Outer sleeve: Back
NEAT 1
Andy’s world is crumbling fast in retrospect of white light silver clouds and heroes on the wall Movicold coca cola Mahler Strauss and Mickey Mouse.
Label: Side 1
“Imagination could never invent as many and varied contradictions as nature ahs put into each person’s heart.”
NEAT 11A
(ZTT logo)
Label: Side 2
HERE hey frankie hey (this side)
relax (fgth)
war (whitefield-strong)
two tribes (fgth)
perfect songs ltd
jobete music (uk) ltd
neat 11b
THERE may frankie may (that side)
well (fgth-richards)
the world is my oyster (fgth)
snatch of fury (marsden)
welcome to the pleasure dome (fgth)
perfect songs ltd
dick james music ltd
neat 11a
stereo 33⅓ r.p.m.
NEAT 1
Performed by FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Johnson-nash-gill-o’toole-rutherford
Produced by Trevor C Horn
Assisted by Steven Lipson
Additional engineering; Bob Kraushaar, Stuart Bruce
Musicians: Jonathan Jeczalik, Andrew Richards, Louis Jardim, Anne Dudley, Steven Lipson, Steve Howe, (Howe courtesy of Geffen Records)
Mastered by Ian Cooper
Co-ordination: Zang Tuum Tumb Records. “It is the traditional task of the prophet to denounce systems of rule and life which deny the freedom of the flash or the imagination.”
Necessary information: unauthorised public performance broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited all rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved.
℗+© 1984 zang tuum tumb (excite)
Necessity: the zen master was asked the solemn question — what is buddah? He took off his sandal, put it on his head, and walked away
HELP
(ZTT logo)
(Island logo)
Label: Side 3
(Frankieman logo)
“victims turn away the manipulators.”
“we’ve seen what it’s like.”
“do you think i’m a complete darling?”
“i just have a laugh and people respect me for that.”
“we used to pretend ‘Relax’ was about motivation and it really was.”
Label: Side 4
THERE fray frankie fray (that side)
fury (marsden)
born to run (springsteen)
san jose (bacharach-david
wish the lads were here inc
balled of 32 (fgth)
dick james music ltd
zomba music ltd
carlin music corp
perfect songs ltd
neat 12a
HERE day frankie day (this side)
krisco kisses (fgth)
black night white light (fgth)
the only star in heaven (fgth)
the power of love (fgth)
perfect songs ltd
neat 12b
stereo 33⅓ r.p.m.
produced by Trevor C Horn “all that?”
assisted by Steven Lipson “all what?”
performed by FRANKIE
“sorry for forcing…”
design of this souvenir by XL ztt “gasping for breath in a desperate place.”
Photography: black + white by anton corbijn colour by peter ashworth
Actors: Christopher Barrie, David Frost, Patrick Allen and Paul Morley
this souvenir accepts its place as part of number 5 in Z.T.T.’S washed Action Series
“Vary pleasure incessantly (never more than two hours at the same task) and from these successive pleasures make on continual pleasure.”
“Pleasures will be sensual in the after life.”
Necessary information…
Necessity…
℗+© 1984 zang tuum tumb (excite)
PLEASE
(ZTT logo)
Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Holly Johnson
Mark O’Toole
Peter ‘Ped’ Gill