Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Inside The Pleasuredome
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- On 25th September 2014 Colleen Murphy from Classic Album Sundays hosted a playback of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" vinyl double album followed by a Q&A session with Trevor Horn, Steve Lipson and JJ Jeczalik in front of a select audience in SARM West's Studio 1where the album was recorded. Here's a flavour of that event.
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40 years later and I'm still obsessed with this album and band.
My favorite album of all time for sure. A masterpiece that still sounds as fresh to me today as it did 40 years ago. The only other music that even comes close was also produced by my Idol Trevor Horn. That you for posting this. I would have given up a limb or an eye to have been there.
Absolute perfection! FGTH at their finest. 🎸
i am 51. i cant stop listening to this.and now with internet we get the puzzle together. i love every piece and i am sure this wont stop. every word from trevor sounds like gold. this is a masterpiece like video killed... trevor is a genius and i love him. thank you trevor.
Indeed the Best Album ever ! Nothing matched or, will ever match it .. Pure diamond !
Soon, it will be another ten years of this legendary album debuting, and I am still listening to it.
I brought “relax” single in Mongkok Hollywood shopping centre (in Hong Kong obviously) and I am still remember that moment I am holding that vinyl on hand.
I'm so thankful for Frankie!
I lived through this time.
The 80's ROCK!
FGTH are one of those bands, with the help of Trevor Horn , whose music never seems to age. I still listen to WTTPD regularly, and I never stop enjoying it, especially the album tracks that didn't even chart, such as "The only star in heaven" "Black night, white light" and "Ballad of 32"
Truly, a great album, a classic masterpiece!
Agree
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t.A.T.u get overlooked, quite a lot, you can hear Horn running through it, they rarely get mentioned as one of his bands though
They were my first concert I watched in Toronto @ Massy Hall , My mother dropped me off with a buddy and I sat next to Dalbello she was maybe 8 years older at the time I was 14 and we ran up to the front together and started dancing all concert long , What a memory! Love FGTH
My number 1 childhood album thank you guys!!!❤🎉🎉🎉
Probably the best electro pop masterpieces that has proved a great work of art is timeless and just works in any generation or place in time, as does A Small Town Boy, from the early 1980's.
Well said, 2 songs are basically E Aeolian ( minor ) and the other D Dorian. Musically as simple as it could ever get, but the rhythm and production and vocals is what made it amazing!
CaribSurfKing1
Extended mix version of the Welcome to the pleasure dome song is marvelous masterpiece of production, mixing and arrangement, unmatched until today. I think it is best overall production along with Quincy Jones doing Michael Jackson, maybe even better.
I wonder what synths did they use, and what reverbs and harmonizers were also used.
Deep respect for Mr. Horn and The crew.
It wasn't an extended mix. It's the original version.
Fairlights were used I believe
Trevor Horn has just released a book that may answer your questions.
for me the best album ever produced. and in its summary art.
Always love frankie 💞
I'm A huge fan since 83. Wish the lads were here. (aww, I wonder if the bands invitations got lost in the mail? LOL). I still think this is a great album and it will continue to acquire new fans for all time to come. Trevor Horn----please keep working, youre a genius.
I went on a tour of Liverpool music sites with Brian Nash last week. It was interesting and he had lots of anecdotes and opinions on FGTH, music and other things.
It’s an astounding album from the early 80s and the production is immaculate and supersedes the style of the time. Slave to the Rhythm by Grace Jones is another masterpiece that is at least 5 years ahead of its time. It’s hard to believe it’s from 1985 and not 1990!
Such a brilliant album.
As much as I love Holly Johnson's vocals, FGTH would have been NOTHING without Trevor and ZTT. It is THE SOUND that matters so much, and while that frustrates the FGTH personnel, I think they would do well to better understand just what made them so great.
The sound does 51% of the job on ANYTHING music, but is nothing with the 49% remainding
Yes anyone whose seen them live will agree with this, unless they were simply overwhelmed by seeing them up on stage, several people i know had seen them live and described the event as very lacklustre
The whole band came together and made something extraordinary!
PERFECT, AND TIMELESS!!
Brilliant Album. I bought the double album pic disc gatefold sleeve back in 1985.
Trevors work with Seal is immense too (some of the remixes)
Is there a full lenght version of the Q&A somewhere ZTT...? This is torture for the average Horn-fan, not to mention the die hard fan ;-)
Please, please, please...???
Ive been playing along with the album version of the WTTPD track on my bass and im experiencing RSI in my arm. Relentless!
Trevor and JJ 2/3 of the Art of Noise right there
Did Ann Dudley do the keyboards on this album or was it JJ?
´d´äiF -:- ? @@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743
Just like the Beatles… there would have been no records without the genus of engineers to enhance and rework the sound we know today. I consider this album to be one of the most important productions produced this century. I hope it is discovered by generations to come. Thank you
The Keyboards on the extended version of Relax is totally insane and genius
Gems of genius from the house of Horn.
The 13 minute album version of Pleasuredome is a work of art. It's a really good album, still sounds amazing, but was anyone else at the time disappointed by the godawful cover art?
looks like the same artist who did the Tom-Tom club album cover
The music was more important to me than the art work
Ooh get her
Love it or hate it, its now iconic. What should it have been? I remember being 14 and fantasizing that it would be a huge 3D classic FGTH symbol with the man holding a gun, thus began a lifetime of things not being as awesome as I wanted it.
@SteveRes - I think the artwork was by Paul Rutherford...
i remember drinking elephant beer with holly right before the show at the des arts bar in baselm real nice guy!!
FGTH Inside The Pleasuredome, Yes 90125, The Buggles The Age Of Plastic, Grace Jones Slave To The Rhythm, Seal Seal, I bought them all when they came out, turns out I'm a genius!
Love that line”we’re a long way from home “
ha we greet each other at work in the morning by saying 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome',not kidding.
Read Nashers book, it's an honest account of what really happened.
IIm looking for 'Sara'.. she stayed with me at the Sunset Marquis in L.A. the night that Frankie played "Hollywood" in 1984. Where are you girl? anyone know her?
Holly album from my collection.🎉
Morley cornered the market when it came to shafting music bands.
He literally shafted the group Propaganda , when he married the lead singer ;)
Sexist comment.
I always thought that Frankie actually wrote Relax & two Tribes & more the extra's where production!
they wrote the songs, yes. early versions are youTube
Trevor Horn and Co there but where are Holly, Paul, Mark, Ped and Nasher????
Sharon Kerr - Horn /ZTT had an acrimonious falling out with Johnson, and i don't think it has ever really been 'resolved' amicably. - Listen at : 6:50 + - Horn alludes to a court case.... Go look it up.
Sharon Kerr ...and you should be aware of the fact that the part of those five people in making this album was very, very small.
+Danyel Guré they wrote the songs and did a fair amount of the playing.
Welcome To A Pleasuredome doesn't exist without production. It's 50/50 case IMHO. Trevor Horn is a great producer but he needed a good material. It's sad story.
…. Licking their wounds after the court cases?
the lads and Holly fell out with each other and ztt. The record label screwed them over and there have been several choir court cases.
Why couldn’t we have seen the whole event?
Why isnt any of FGTH there?
I thought it was a really sneaky and sly trick that Trevor pulled. The band were outstanding musicians especially the bass player and drummer. but Trevor instead on playing bass on the day of the recording. and he isn't any better, he did it because he knew that he wouldn't have to pay royalties out same goes for the guitarist. its just a really dirty trick and greedy especially with him being owner of the record label. .I think in the end this was why Holly walked away and had to take Trevor horn to court to be released from his slave contract. .The other members of the band made next to nothing. but soon realised that production was where the money was and I think the drummer and bass players did go on to be very successful producers.
I think mark O toole must of made some money as he moved to LA ,I always wanted to know which tracks if the band played on maybe the album tracks ?
They weren't forced to sign the contract at gunpoint, they knew how music business worked in the '80s.
@@jimbotron70 They did know. If you read Nash's book, they knew the deal from ZTT was hooky, but it was the only deal on the table. No one else was interested. The thing is, if you listen to other interviews with Trevor, particularly in his book, you find out that the deal that he and Jill Sinclair secured from Island to be able to set up ZTT was pretty shit as well and the residuals were minimal... all Horn and Sinclair did was to get the acts like FGTH and Propaganda to end up subsidising that so that the label could claw that back.
Hence all the 12 inch versions which took up a lot of studio time which got billed to the band before they got any form of royalties.I got the impression that was what pissed off the band as much as anything else, that they got no say in that, that was all at the whim of Horn and ZTT. Its all those three months in Sarm West at over a thousand pounds a day, let alone Horn and Lipson's percentages, plus all the rest of the stuff that was billed to the band... all that s*** mounts up.
Funnily enough, ZTT were sued by both Propaganda and FGTH and if I recall correctly, they lost both cases. I note that they didnt appear to pull the same stunt with Seal, so they learned their lesson.
thats not to make light of the musical and production impact of this album, which is still quite something even nearly 40 years later and the vision of Horn, Lipson, Andy Richards et al was quite something. But lets not be under any illusion that the record industry has been full of sharp practises against artists for decades.
@@stevem-h3562 Thanks for the articulate answer.
40 years ago now. Incredible, what happened?
frankie had some great ideas as a band i think then trevor got involved,as well as some brilliant session musicians...norman watt roy on bass!..plus other talent..it was a fantastic album which would never have happened without trevor/the bands ideas/the session players..its all good.it was a brilliant collaboration...x
that is true about the studios, where great music and songs were created...something in the walls,the first time i was visiting Abbey Road studios i felt the same.
I never knew Martin McGuinneus was one of the FGTH producers. Still...a nice doc, would've be great to hear some of the Q+A.
30 Th Anniversary of the Album and not a single original band member present (all still alive)
Kinda sums up the relationship between the band and the record label and producers ?
Sad really ;(
This event wasn’t about the perspective of the band.
It was about Trevor’s.
@@deletebilderberg - Still.... His point stands.
@@xoio It sums up the relationship between the "band" and the music.
Did the band play any instrument on the album, at all?
@@deletebilderberg Boooooooh
Define perspective of the band?
Exactly......................................................
again why no mention of norman and that bass line ? @
Who spotted the mouse on the console at 8.34 over the guy's right shoulder, I thiught i was seeing things til I went back and looked....Great album btw, I was at 1984 as a 19y.o, FGTH music went off at the nightclubs, good times back in the 80s so ive been reminded occasionally, I was preoccupied setting a land speed record for killing brain cells at the time.
If you look a few seconds later you’ll see it’s actually a man 😂
I remember mark coming to see me play on the local Liverpool clubs.
I read it in 2012 when it was published.
Can I view the whole day?
If I my sons were in ear shot when 'Relax' came on, I'd get uncomfortable. 😯
So what exactly did the band contribute to the album other than Holly’s voice?
The songs that they wrote. Which is much of the album basically.
I've read that ZTT and Horn's obsession with Frankie neglected Propaganda. That band could have been something 🇩🇪😕
Propaganda got a fair share of limelight in mid '80s.
Wonderful production, the Fairlight (or Synclavier?) programming was true insanity, you have a hard time getting what is really played and what is programmed, this is hard to obtain, even with modern DAWs
It was the Fairlight.
@@kennethvalbjoern Both the Fairlight and Synclavier were used for FGTH, though maybe not both for the album versions.
Anyone knows were the backing tune comes from in the beginning upto 1.30 min
It’s ”Ballad of 32”, a track on the pleasuredome album
@@orgryte1 Thankyou
Who else was there ?
I like the hit single "Relax" I will check out the rest of the album to see if it live up to my standards of music
get over youself
interestng that lol creme produced this song
He produced the video not the song.
@@primitivo4604 ok
Wot fallen angels do really no holly cos there is no two ways about u could no that knowledge with been directed by lucifer and the fallen
Lasssssstima
And now Sarm is no more.... all been turned into flats. Same with Sarm Hook End Manor. All gone.
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Soooooooooooo disappointed ! Basically it's about how to exploit a singular idea and market it up the wazoo. We expected it from the likes of Stock; Aitken and Waterman who made ALL their 'discoveries' sound bland and awful. But i really hoped for a more 'stuff the establishment' idea from FGTH. Ugh !
anybody ask frankie ? joke
He said "Relax"
yak yak yak no pleasure here
I saw that performance on the tube and also wasn't impressed .
No ladies in the audience ?! I don't dig it.
Degradación
Imagine anyone under 40 understanding any single thing discussed here.
Interview is great, but that first part is pathetic. Why would you want to sit with a bunch of idiots listening to a record? I could do that in my house.
Nunsemonrock
Frankie says: What a load of crap we are
WTF?!? What "classic"?!? It's f*cking timeless!! It's a milestone!! It's current. It's not f*cking classic!!
Bro, classic and timeless are synonims, re-read the dictionary.
@@jimbotron70 I was wondering when the spelling nazi's would arrive.
bla bla bla, go back to mama
Bass line on pleasuredome song is amazing, you have to move when you hear it!
Old boy
The only good song off this album worth listening to is "Relax" the rest of it is rubbish in my opinion
Who gives two f**ks about your opinion?