ABC & Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Tonight Johnnie and David Hepworth, who was Editor of Smash Hits at the time of release of these albums, look at two hit-single filled recordings (and their shared producer).
Tonight Johnnie and broadcaster and journalist David Hepworth, who was editor of Smash Hits at the time of release of these albums, look at two hit single filled recordings (and their shared producer), which set the tone for the whole of the 1980s and beyond.
As David says they were hyper-real, pin sharp and bigger than anything you had ever heard before, what's more despite the fact that new technology made everything sound completely fresh, they haven't dated. Johnnie describes one track as perhaps the most perfect pop single ever.
ABC had gold lame suits and an almost cinematic widescreen quality on 1982's The Lexicon Of Love and Frankie Goes To Hollywood mixed controversy with videos, marketing and production that would have given Cecil B DeMille a run for his money, on their 1984 double album Welcome To The Pleasuredome.
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ABC
Show Me
- The Lexicon Of Love.
- Mercury.
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ABC
Poison Arrow
- Abc - The Lexicon Of Love.
- Mercury.
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ABC
The Look Of Love
- And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
- Debutante.
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ABC
All of My Heart (album version)
- The Lexicon Of Love.
- Mercury.
- 8.
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Relax
- Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes
- Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
- ZTT.
- 005.
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
The Power Of Love
- Mixed Emotions III (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Anne Dudley & Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (album version)
- Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
- ZTT.
- 002.
Broadcast
- Mon 27 Feb 2017 22:00大象传媒 Radio 2