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FGTH had their first single banned from almost every radio station in the UK - Relax! Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford made up FGTH but parted after some disagreement - Holly went on to have a solo career.

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  • Anonymous user
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    They went to no.1 with their first album as well, 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome'. Virtually every other person under 30 was wearing a Frankie T-shirt in the Summer of '84- I had a heck of a job getting my own, and when I did it was XL size and way too big for me! They released a second album 'Liverpool' in '86, from which they had one chart entry 'Warriors of the Wasteland', but it didn't prove anything like as popular as it's predecessor. I had a copy, it was much bleaker and more desolate than anything they'd done before- it was designed mainly as an anti-Thatcher album. Poor old Holly now has AIDS, though is still pegging on. He was thought for a brief while to have been on board the 'Maid Of The Seas' 747 when she exploded over Lockerbie, his fans were mightily relieved to discover that he wasn't.
  • scotchmist
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    Saw them live at the Glasgow Apollo 1984 and they were great and the atmosphere was electric....both are gone now...sniff!
  • Anonymous user
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    A little bit of trivia for you: FGTH were the first band to go to No.1 with their first three singles since Gerry and the Pacemakers in the 1960s, and coincidentally both bands are from Liverpool! As for the ban on 'Relax', this seems to be a case of "bad publicity equals good publicity". The kids out there knew there must have been something naughty about the record when they heard it had been taken off the radio playlists, so of course they wanted to buy it! It's usually the airplay that sells records, but in ths case the reverse was true.

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