Relax (Sex mix) | Discography | Zang Tuum Tumb and all that

Type: Single

Format: 12" vinyl

Label: Zang Tuum Tumb

Catalogue ref.: 12ZTAS1

Matrix: 12ZTAS1A-1U

Series: Bold Action series no. 1

Release date: 24 October 1983

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chart position: UK: (Starting 06/11/1983) 77; 77; 67; 55; 54; 55; 46; 35; 35; 6; 2; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 2; 3; 6; 16; 21; 23; 21; 29; 29; 31; 26; 24; 21; 17; 16; 11; 5; 3; 2; 2; 3; 3; 3; 6; 7; 12; 20; 22; 29; 41; 47; 50; 66; 71; x; x; x; x; x; x; x; 93; 87; 89; 79 (10/2/1985) 68; 58; 64; 74; x; x; x; x; x; 68; 58; 64; 74; x; 91; 96; 86; 83; 89 (26/9/1993) 6; 5; 8; 13; 19; 41; 58
USA Billboard Top 100: (Starting 7/4/1984) 84; 72; 68; 68; 67; 78; 98 (19/1/1985 re-issue) 70; 45; 38; 35; 28; 21; 19; 17; 10; 10; 20; 26; 46; 64; 69; 76
USA Billboard Dance Single Sales: (Peak 30/3/1985) 26 (Re-issue peak 25/8/2001) 22
USA Billboard Dance Club Songs: (Peak 25/2/1984) 20 (Re-issue peak 7/7/2001) 19
Germany: (Starting 6/2/1984) 58; 4; 2; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 2; 3; 5; 9; 18; 25; 29; 40; 43; 63; 62; 74 (18/10/1993) 46; 27; 14; 14; 15; 13; 15; 15; 20; 22; 29; 33; 41; 84; 96; 97

Sleeve design: XL Design; ZTT

Photographer: John Stoddart

Notes: This release was mastered by mistake at 33rpm.

Sleeve Notes

Outer sleeve: Front

RELAX

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

(ZTT logo)

“relax don’t do it when you want to go to it relax don’t do it when you want to come!”

Outer sleeve: Back

12 ZTAS 1

Introducing…

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

(a zang tuum tumb phantasy)

Let’s go down the hall to the disciplining room…

Chapter One

Holly Johnson: one voice, flames, secrets.

Paul Rutherford: two voice, desire to be repeated as often as desired.

Mark O’Toole: bass, greed, speed, twist.

Peter Gill: drum, anxiety, immoderation.

Brian Nash: guitar, judging eye.

Chapter Two

“Get down there and lick that shit off my shoes!” Frankie demanded. Excited and half terrified, Peta began to lick the shit from his shoes.

Chapter Three

(spaces of ecstasy)… where can we come… BETWEEN razor AND revolver… BETWEEN hammer AND anvil… BETWEEN doors… BETWEEN currents…

1. RELAX (Sex Mix)
2. FERRY ACROSS THE MERSEY
3. RELAX

Chapter Four

In fact, in no sphere of behaviour does the character of a person show more clearly than in the sexual act — possibly because it is the least ‘learned’ and patterned behaviour. A person’s love, his tenderness, his sadism, or masochism, his greed, his narcissism, his anxieties — indeed his every character trait — is expressed in his sexual behaviour.^[1]

Chapter Five

TREVOR HORN produced Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s first twelve inches.

photograph and cover illustration: ANNE YVONNE GILBERT

sleeve: XLZTT

group photograph: John Stoddart

frankie goes to hollywood’s first seven inches (ZTAS1) features relax coupled with one september monday (a playful down talk between holly and paul and their record company)

Chapter Six

Frankie was a monster. No one could imagine what he demanded of his nephew.^[2]

Chapter Seven

Further information about Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and information about all Zang Tuum Tumb fantasies, is available from ZTT Records, The ZTT Building, 8-10 Basing St. London W.11. Enclose s.a.e.

This, in company with the seven inches has been number one in Zang Tuum Tumb’s bold ACTION SERIES.

’from dry to moist, from soft to hard.’

Chapter Eight

And it is the incision and tumescence and new intensive points, pain-pleasure points, that first extends the erotogenic extension.^[3]

Chapter Nine

This is the end of the non-story we wanted to tell, and we hope that you won’t believe a word of what we have not said.

(Island logo)

Label: Side 1

(ZTT logo) (Island logo)

one side

stereo 45 r.p.m.

frankie goes to hollywood

12 ZTAS 1

relax (sex mix)

gill-johnson-o’toole

published by perfect songs

produced by trevor horn

’from dry to moist’

UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED. ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDED WORK RESERVED.

Label: Side 2

(ZTT logo) (Island logo)

two side

stereo 45 r.p.m.

frankie goes to hollywood

ferry cross the mersey

marsden

published by dick james music

relax

gill-johnson-o’toole

published by perfect songs

produced by trevor horn

ZTAS1

’from soft to hard’

UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED. ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDED WORK RESERVED.

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