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  Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?    
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The 80's saw its fair share of quality bands; some well known, some not so well known. How much do you remember about the controversial Frankie Goes To Hollywood? Questions refer to UK chart only.
Average, 10 Qns, Robski76, Apr 21 20
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  Frankie Goes To Hollywood    
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Find out how much you know about Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Average, 10 Qns, blane, Nov 20 04
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood Trivia Questions
1. Frankie Goes To Hollywood hailed from which English city?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: Liverpool

The video to Frankie's second single "Two Tribes" was banned because it featured a ficticious fight between Russian and American leaders!

2. Why was their first single, "Relax" banned by Radio 1?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: The song contained what the BBC described as, "obscene lyrics".

Despite this ban, the song still made #1, and sold over one million copies in the UK alone.

3. How many albums with unique songs did FGTH release?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: 2

"Welcome To the Pleasuredome" and "Liverpool". All others were either localized limited editions or later samples -- they all only contained remixes or different versions of the original tracks.

4. Who was the lead singer of the band?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: Holly Johnson

At one point, "Two Tribes" and "Relax" held the number 1 and 2 positions on the chart in the same week.

5. Almost everybody knows that "Relax" was the first single released by FGTH. By means of their discography, what was the second single?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: Two Tribes

Although "The Power of Love" was the second single released in the U.S., "Two Tribes" was the follow-up to Relax in the U.K. (Thanks to hootch for pointing that out).

6. What was the title of their debut album, which was also the title of the last single release off the album?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Advertising posters for the single called the song "the 4th number 1". Unfortunately, it peaked at #2 and the sequence of number 1's was broken, but things would get a lot worse...

7. "The Power of Love", the bands third release and third #1, had its critics. Many people complained about the video to the single, despite it not being banned. But why were so many people upset by it?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: It depicted the events surrounding the birth of Christ.

"The Power of Love" stayed at number 1 for only 1 week. It was denied a longer stay at the top by Band Aid's " Do They Know It's Christmas".

8. After the release of the single "Welcome to the Pleasuredome", it was over a year before the band released the first single off their second album. Why?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: The left the UK to become tax exiles and therefore avoid paying any tax on the money they'd earned.

In 1984 Frankie Goes To Hollywood led the list of acts with most weeks on the chart. Their 3 singles, "Relax", "Two Tribes" and "The Power of Love" spent 68 weeks in total inside the top 75.

9. Who produced Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: Trevor Horn

Almost all FGTH songs were produced by Trevor Horn. Johnson/Rutherford never produced anything by themselves under the FGTH Label. And Malcolm McLaren was, of course, the producer of the Sex Pistols.

10. What was the title of the bands second album?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: Liverpool

Their second album was something of a flop, spawning only 1 top 10 hit. In all, they only released 3 singles of the album before disappearing into obscurity.

11. What was title of the only top 10 hit to come from their second album?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: Rage Hard

The song reached #4 but spent only 7 weeks in the top 75.

12. Frankie's well-known track "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" begins with the lyrics "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a Pleasuredome Erect". By what author was FGTH obviously inspired?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: Samuel Coleridge

It was "Kubla Khan", a poem by Samuel Taylor Colerige about Marco Polo's journeys. The original lines are: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree, where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea..."

13. In 1993 the band had someting of a rebirth. A re-issue of "Relax" reached #5, but what 3 word phrase was written on the sleeve of the single, as if a two fingered salute to those who objected to the song?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: The Second Coming

The re-issue of "Relax" wasn't banned...by the BBC or anyone else!

14. Where was Holly Johnson born?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: Liverpool, England

William Johnson was born on Februrary 19th, 1960 in Liverpool, England.

15. Also in 1993 saw the release of their greatest hits album. What was the title?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Remember?

Answer: Bang! The Greatest Hits of Frankie Goes To Hollywood

The greatest hits album of Frankie Goes To Hollywood contained only 7 songs that had been chart hits for the band. The remainder of the album was made up of cover versions and unreleased material.

16. Why, according to Holly Johnson, was Paul Rutherford a member of FGTH?

From Quiz Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Answer: Just for the smell of it

Holly Johnson said in an interview once that Paul was only in "for the smell of it". Of course, Rutherford did sing background but Johnson never fitted him in because of his voice. In "Rage Hard (Slam Blam)" (a 12-inch version of "Rage Hard"), it is even mentioned by the female announcer: "Paul Rutherford... here for the smell of it... how does it feel?" However, many friends and fans always believed Rutherford was into it because of the relationship to Johnson -- but they never clearly said so.

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