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Greg lemond team z frame11/19/2022 ![]() This includes both the myriads of anecdotal text scattered everywhere, as well as the factual text ("Two Tribes"' sleeve was covered with information about nuclear weapons.) Detail-Hogging Cover/ Wall of Text: The artwork for Welcome to the Pleasuredome and its accompanying singles were absolutely loaded with text by resident ZTT musical journalist Paul Morley, whose work also appeared on all ZTT artists' albums at the time."Relax" isn't about masturbation, it's about getting a handjob! Covered Up: "The Power of Love" again, which was covered by Gabrielle Aplin for a John Lewis advert in 2012 said cover reached number 1 in the charts 28 years after FGTH's version did.The song itself is a rather straightforward (as straightforward as anything produced by Trevor Horn with an epic orchestral arrangement by Anne Dudley ever is, that is) love ballad whose lyrics have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas whatsoever. Christmas Songs: "The Power of Love" is often to be considered this due to its music video, which depicts the nativity, coupled with its being released at Christmas time.Book Ends: "The Power of Love" begins and ends with the lyrics "I'll protect you from the hooded claw / Keep the vampires from your door".Black Comedy: "Two Tribes", especially the extended mixes when Patrick Allen gets going: "Mine is the last voice you will ever hear.". GREG LEMOND TEAM Z FRAME TRIALThis is a bit of a Genius Bonus - the words are a translation of a speech given by Adolf Hitler at his trial over the Beer Hall Putsch.Badass Boast: The narration in some remixes of "Two Tribes" says: "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over, but the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History will smile and tear to tatters the brief of the state prosecutor and the sentence of this court, for she acquits us.".Johnson has since released material sporadically while he enjoys a career as a painter, while Rutherford released one solo album before retiring the rest of the band have tried at various times to get back together, hiring vocalist Ryan Molloy from 2004-2007 to tour again. The courts eventually sided with Johnson, noting the band's contract being highly restrictive. The band folded in 1987 after a world tour, when lead singer Holly Johnson was sued by ZTT for trying to sign to another record label for a solo career. Having two openly gay bandmembers the vocalists maybe didn't help.ġ986 saw the release of Liverpool, their second album and the first to actually feature the band performing on it (Horn having overproduced Pleasuredome to the point where every note was played by Horn or session musicians.) While charting high and having a successful lead single in "Rage Hard", Liverpool had much less of an impact. "Relax" came under fire for featuring homoerotic lyricism and was banned by the BBC. Their debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome, is considered a masterwork of Horn's production and featured the extremely popular singles "Relax", "Two Tribes" and "The Power of Love". Formed in 1980, the band eventually found success under the wing of producer Trevor Horn and became the flagship band of his Zang Tuum Tumb (or ZTT) record label. Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a British dance and pop band from Liverpool. ![]()
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