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HOW TO REMAKE THE WORLD

WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME

an alternative to reality

1985 = post-BANG!

seventh THE ESCAPE ACT action

“we may not get there but boy do we care…”

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there are dreams and there is escape…

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12 ZTAS 7

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD “it’s all in the body”

Produced by Trevor Horn who was assisted by Steve Lipson. Get it on produced by Dale Griffin Courtesy of the BBC

Side a: WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME (alternative to reality)

Side b: Get It On

HAPPY HI!

RELAX (International)

Sleeve assembled by XLZTT: “a world apart, in trousers”

Photography: a.j. barratt and john stoddard

this single as a 12" is part two in 1985 Escape Act and number seven in Z.T.T’s blistered Action Series

ZTTIQ1 “Welcome To The Pleasure Dome”

ZTAS 6 “And Suddenly There Came A Bang” — one year in the life of Frankie, Nov 83 — Nov 84. Published by ZTT ETC available by mail order from ZTT ETC 8-10 Basing Street London W11 1ET

£2.50 inc. p+p. cheques and postal orders made payable to ZTT ETC

(man needs escape as he needs deep sleep and good fun)

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Under the charm of the Dionysian not only is the union between man and man reaffirmed, but nature which has become alienated, hostile, or subjugated, celebrates once more her reconciliation with her lost son, man. Freely, earth proffers her gifts, and peacefully the beasts of prey of the rocks and desert approach. The chariot of Dionysus is covered with flowers and garlands; panthers and tigers walk under its yoke. Transform Beethoven’s “Hymn to Joy” into a painting; let your imagination conceive the multitudes bowing to the dust, awestruck — then you will approach the Dionysian. Now the slave is a free man; now all the rigid, hostile barriers that necessity, caprice or “impudent convention” have fixed between man and man are broken. Now, with the gospel of universal harmony, each one feels himself not only united, reconciled, and fused with his neighbor, but as one with him, as if the veil of maya had been torn aside and were now merely fluttering in tatters before the mysterious primordial unity. In song and in dance man express himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying into the air, dancing. His very gestures expresses enchantment. Just as the animals now talk, and the earth yields milk and honey, supernatural sounds emanate from him, too: he feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy, like the gods he saw walking in his dreams. He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: in the paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the primordial unity. The noblest clay, the most costly marble, man, is here kneaded and cut, and to the sound of the chisel strokes of the Dionysian world-artist rings out the cry of the Eleusinian mysteries: “Do you prostrate yourselves millions? Do you sense your Maker, world?”.^[1]

HOW TO RETAKE THE WORLD at forty five revolutions per minute in stereo

“please sure…”

WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME

(real altered)

(gill-johnson-nash-o’toole)

performed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

who were produced by Trevor Horn

who was assisted by Steve Lipson

published by perfect songs ltd ℗ 1984

All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. unauthorised public performance broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited.

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12ZTAS 7-A

HOW TO BLEND THE WORLD at forty five revolutions per minute in stereo

“blend it retake it anyway…”

GET IT ON (bolan) published by westminster music

performed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

produced by Dale Griffin courtesy of the BBC ℗ 1985

HAPPY HI! (gill-johnson-nash-o’toole)

performed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

who were produced by Trevor Horn

who was assisted by Steve Lipson “alright for the wife? ℗ 1985

RELAX (International) (gill-johnson-nash-o’toole)

performed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Details as above ℗ 1983

published by perfect songs ltd

All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. unauthorised public performance broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited.

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12ZTAS 7-B