Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Inside The Pleasuredome

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  • Опубліковано 21 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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  • @Left-handed-liberal
    @Left-handed-liberal 7 місяців тому +13

    40 years later and I'm still obsessed with this album and band.

  • @briancook-carter6639
    @briancook-carter6639 4 місяці тому +4

    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.

  • @schlonzschuppe4516
    @schlonzschuppe4516 4 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @virajthomson8394
    @virajthomson8394 5 місяців тому +5

    Absolute perfection! FGTH at their finest. 🎸

  • @DarthNikos
    @DarthNikos Рік тому +7

    Indeed the Best Album ever ! Nothing matched or, will ever match it .. Pure diamond !

  • @hermanmunster3358
    @hermanmunster3358 3 роки тому +20

    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!

    • @hestisa956
      @hestisa956 Рік тому

      Agree

    • @cv507
      @cv507 11 місяців тому

      prö?se Flydäe??
      rips träde hellFnöRD ^?^ & ´jöhnssön ^ ^ dönö why... lüjähnpressäh??

    • @jakebeatstheworld
      @jakebeatstheworld 10 місяців тому

      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

  • @domsiniscalco4688
    @domsiniscalco4688 6 місяців тому +2

    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

  • @HongKong880
    @HongKong880 15 днів тому

    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.

  • @FlexBnt
    @FlexBnt 8 років тому +7

    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.

  • @hestisa956
    @hestisa956 Рік тому +3

    My number 1 childhood album thank you guys!!!❤🎉🎉🎉

  • @PaulOfCreation
    @PaulOfCreation 3 місяці тому

    I'm so thankful for Frankie!
    I lived through this time.
    The 80's ROCK!

  • @CaribSurfKing1
    @CaribSurfKing1 7 років тому +8

    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!

  • @schlonzschuppe4516
    @schlonzschuppe4516 7 років тому +19

    for me the best album ever produced. and in its summary art.

  • @adriatic123
    @adriatic123 6 років тому +21

    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.

    • @halcyondaystunes
      @halcyondaystunes 2 роки тому +2

      It wasn't an extended mix. It's the original version.

    • @Markeebee100
      @Markeebee100 2 роки тому +1

      Fairlights were used I believe

    • @Westerdd
      @Westerdd Рік тому

      Trevor Horn has just released a book that may answer your questions.

  • @gameblor
    @gameblor 9 років тому +12

    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.

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 11 місяців тому

      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.

  • @KRAZEEIZATION
    @KRAZEEIZATION 21 день тому

    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!

  • @craigvanderborgh4324
    @craigvanderborgh4324 4 роки тому +23

    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.

    • @harounel-poussah6936
      @harounel-poussah6936 2 роки тому +1

      The sound does 51% of the job on ANYTHING music, but is nothing with the 49% remainding

    • @adrinathegreat3095
      @adrinathegreat3095 Рік тому

      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

    • @mimilini1
      @mimilini1 3 місяці тому

      The whole band came together and made something extraordinary!

  • @Ashfaq1999
    @Ashfaq1999 2 роки тому +1

    Brilliant Album. I bought the double album pic disc gatefold sleeve back in 1985.

  • @johnnyatab
    @johnnyatab 8 років тому +12

    Such a brilliant album.

  • @ArtbyJoeH
    @ArtbyJoeH 17 днів тому

    Ive been playing along with the album version of the WTTPD track on my bass and im experiencing RSI in my arm. Relentless!

  • @cooliohunter86
    @cooliohunter86 Рік тому +1

    PERFECT, AND TIMELESS!!

  • @paulatreanor5566
    @paulatreanor5566 2 місяці тому

    Always love frankie 💞

  • @joannesmith7042
    @joannesmith7042 2 місяці тому

    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

  • @SteveRes
    @SteveRes 8 років тому +44

    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?

    • @MeMissCee
      @MeMissCee 8 років тому

      looks like the same artist who did the Tom-Tom club album cover

    • @stu8103
      @stu8103 7 років тому +3

      The music was more important to me than the art work

    • @SteveRes
      @SteveRes 7 років тому +1

      Ooh get her

    • @gameblor
      @gameblor 7 років тому +3

      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.

    • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
      @sirandrelefaedelinoge 3 роки тому +1

      @SteveRes - I think the artwork was by Paul Rutherford...

  • @jonathankidd7215
    @jonathankidd7215 4 роки тому +5

    Trevor and JJ 2/3 of the Art of Noise right there

    • @dr.brianjudedelimaphd743
      @dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 Рік тому +1

      Did Ann Dudley do the keyboards on this album or was it JJ?

    • @cv507
      @cv507 11 місяців тому

      ´d´äiF -:- ? @@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743

  • @tldrvince4705
    @tldrvince4705 2 роки тому +4

    Trevors work with Seal is immense too (some of the remixes)

  • @johnny0468
    @johnny0468 6 років тому +6

    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

  • @Lysdexia
    @Lysdexia 8 років тому +4

    Gems of genius from the house of Horn.

  • @dr.brianjudedelimaphd743
    @dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 Рік тому +2

    The Keyboards on the extended version of Relax is totally insane and genius

  • @jasmineblack9778
    @jasmineblack9778 4 роки тому +2

    ha we greet each other at work in the morning by saying 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome',not kidding.

  • @andrewcbartlett
    @andrewcbartlett Рік тому +2

    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!

  • @g-plan9future204
    @g-plan9future204 3 місяці тому

    Love that line”we’re a long way from home “

  • @megapengmusic
    @megapengmusic 2 роки тому +1

    i remember drinking elephant beer with holly right before the show at the des arts bar in baselm real nice guy!!

  • @DennisDithmar
    @DennisDithmar 9 років тому +14

    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...???

  • @andrewdormand7647
    @andrewdormand7647 4 роки тому +9

    Read Nashers book, it's an honest account of what really happened.

  • @LenovoLenovo-g2f
    @LenovoLenovo-g2f 4 місяці тому

    Holly album from my collection.🎉

  • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
    @Theoriginalbigbrillo 5 років тому +6

    Morley cornered the market when it came to shafting music bands.
    He literally shafted the group Propaganda , when he married the lead singer ;)

  • @sharonkerr66
    @sharonkerr66 9 років тому +10

    Trevor Horn and Co there but where are Holly, Paul, Mark, Ped and Nasher????

    • @xoio
      @xoio 9 років тому +1

      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.

    • @guellegure
      @guellegure 9 років тому

      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.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland 8 років тому +6

      +Danyel Guré they wrote the songs and did a fair amount of the playing.

    • @wertor666
      @wertor666 7 років тому +1

      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.

    • @Dubdroid
      @Dubdroid 3 роки тому

      …. Licking their wounds after the court cases?

  • @heatherwildcat
    @heatherwildcat 9 років тому +9

    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?

  • @pag1413
    @pag1413 8 років тому +4

    I always thought that Frankie actually wrote Relax & two Tribes & more the extra's where production!

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland 8 років тому +10

      they wrote the songs, yes. early versions are youTube

  • @matsfrommusic
    @matsfrommusic 4 місяці тому

    40 years ago now. Incredible, what happened?

  • @xtrict
    @xtrict 7 років тому +2

    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.

  • @stuartlee8519
    @stuartlee8519 6 років тому +10

    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.

    • @duranasty
      @duranasty 5 років тому +5

      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 ?

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Рік тому

      They weren't forced to sign the contract at gunpoint, they knew how music business worked in the '80s.

    • @stevem-h3562
      @stevem-h3562 Рік тому +2

      @@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.

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Рік тому

      @@stevem-h3562 Thanks for the articulate answer.

  • @tomstickland
    @tomstickland 8 років тому +11

    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.

  • @talibe801
    @talibe801 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
    @Theoriginalbigbrillo 5 років тому +18

    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 ;(

    • @deletebilderberg
      @deletebilderberg 5 років тому +3

      This event wasn’t about the perspective of the band.
      It was about Trevor’s.

    • @xoio
      @xoio 4 роки тому +3

      @@deletebilderberg - Still.... His point stands.

    • @guellegure
      @guellegure 4 роки тому +2

      @@xoio It sums up the relationship between the "band" and the music.

    • @ElkundEklund
      @ElkundEklund 4 роки тому +1

      Did the band play any instrument on the album, at all?

    • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
      @Theoriginalbigbrillo 3 роки тому

      @@deletebilderberg Boooooooh
      Define perspective of the band?
      Exactly......................................................

  • @petemarr824
    @petemarr824 7 років тому +5

    Why isnt any of FGTH there?

  • @apollozero
    @apollozero Рік тому +3

    Why couldn’t we have seen the whole event?

  • @davidwatkinson1226
    @davidwatkinson1226 Рік тому

    Can I view the whole day?

  • @glasshalffull8471
    @glasshalffull8471 11 місяців тому

    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.

    • @SheridanWhiteside-
      @SheridanWhiteside- 7 місяців тому +1

      If you look a few seconds later you’ll see it’s actually a man 😂

  • @CAVERN1234
    @CAVERN1234 8 років тому +1

    I remember mark coming to see me play on the local Liverpool clubs.

  • @johnny0468
    @johnny0468 5 років тому +1

    again why no mention of norman and that bass line ? @

  • @lindahandley5267
    @lindahandley5267 2 роки тому +1

    If I my sons were in ear shot when 'Relax' came on, I'd get uncomfortable. 😯

  • @Danimal1577
    @Danimal1577 3 роки тому +2

    I've read that ZTT and Horn's obsession with Frankie neglected Propaganda. That band could have been something 🇩🇪😕

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Рік тому +2

      Propaganda got a fair share of limelight in mid '80s.

  • @harounel-poussah6936
    @harounel-poussah6936 2 роки тому +1

    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

    • @kennethvalbjoern
      @kennethvalbjoern Рік тому

      It was the Fairlight.

    • @80ssynthfan48
      @80ssynthfan48 4 місяці тому

      @@kennethvalbjoern Both the Fairlight and Synclavier were used for FGTH, though maybe not both for the album versions.

  • @ZeldaFitz
    @ZeldaFitz Рік тому +1

    So what exactly did the band contribute to the album other than Holly’s voice?

    • @80ssynthfan48
      @80ssynthfan48 4 місяці тому

      The songs that they wrote. Which is much of the album basically.

  • @stevelarcombe1323
    @stevelarcombe1323 4 роки тому +1

    Who else was there ?

  • @royalnass1029
    @royalnass1029 5 років тому +3

    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

  • @SuperIdyll
    @SuperIdyll 3 роки тому

    Anyone knows were the backing tune comes from in the beginning upto 1.30 min

    • @orgryte1
      @orgryte1 3 роки тому +1

      It’s ”Ballad of 32”, a track on the pleasuredome album

    • @SuperIdyll
      @SuperIdyll 3 роки тому +1

      @@orgryte1 Thankyou

  • @tedkay_music
    @tedkay_music 6 років тому +1

    interestng that lol creme produced this song

  • @marinalopezmarina8577
    @marinalopezmarina8577 4 роки тому

    Lasssssstima

  • @davidatkin3680
    @davidatkin3680 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @stevem-h3562
    @stevem-h3562 Рік тому

    And now Sarm is no more.... all been turned into flats. Same with Sarm Hook End Manor. All gone.

  • @marinalopezmarina8577
    @marinalopezmarina8577 4 роки тому

    Vergüenza

  • @salvadormarley
    @salvadormarley 5 років тому +1

    Imagine anyone under 40 understanding any single thing discussed here.

  • @johnrowland3105
    @johnrowland3105 6 років тому +2

    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 !

  • @cv507
    @cv507 11 місяців тому

    prö?se Flydäe??

  • @oliviermuller9606
    @oliviermuller9606 7 років тому

    Old boy

  • @paulwilkinson8099
    @paulwilkinson8099 3 роки тому

    I saw that performance on the tube and also wasn't impressed .

  • @tg5476
    @tg5476 Рік тому

    yak yak yak no pleasure here

  • @jas47679
    @jas47679 6 років тому +1

    anybody ask frankie ? joke

    • @cptreech
      @cptreech 3 роки тому +2

      He said "Relax"

  • @marinalopezmarina8577
    @marinalopezmarina8577 4 роки тому

    Degradación

  • @IvanMerso
    @IvanMerso 6 років тому

    No ladies in the audience ?! I don't dig it.

  • @marinalopezmarina8577
    @marinalopezmarina8577 4 роки тому

    Nunsemonrock

  • @LRS905
    @LRS905 7 років тому

    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.

  • @lowket
    @lowket 7 років тому

    WTF?!? What "classic"?!? It's f*cking timeless!! It's a milestone!! It's current. It's not f*cking classic!!

    • @jimbotron70
      @jimbotron70 Рік тому +1

      Bro, classic and timeless are synonims, re-read the dictionary.

    • @lowket
      @lowket Рік тому

      @@jimbotron70 I was wondering when the spelling nazi's would arrive.

  • @peterbustin8604
    @peterbustin8604 7 років тому

    Frankie says: What a load of crap we are

  • @oliviermuller9606
    @oliviermuller9606 7 років тому

    bla bla bla, go back to mama

  • @royalnass1029
    @royalnass1029 5 років тому +1

    The only good song off this album worth listening to is "Relax" the rest of it is rubbish in my opinion

  • @ST1973
    @ST1973 9 місяців тому

    Bass line on pleasuredome song is amazing, you have to move when you hear it!