ZANG TUMMM TUMB ARTICLES “the first draft of history”

Mutterings

…Frankie mutter: one. Tis muttered that Frankie have secretly re-recorded “Relax” changing the naughty bit to “if you wanna have fun” and thus making it acceptable to the BBC in case it got back to number one… Frankie mutter: two. “Relax” now the eighth best selling British single ever… Frankie mutter three. Seems the chaps play very little of the music on either of their records. Trevor Horn and several session musicians (all those hippies with keyboards who were with them on Midsummer Nights Tube) do most of it. “People seem to have outdated notion of the function of group nowadays,” muttered ZTT main mouthpiece Paul Morley when asked about this on Ear SayFrankie mutter: four. At the Thompson Twins party there was nearly a fight between Gary Kemp and Paul Rutherford over the ad which said Frankie “make Spandau Ballet look soft”. The enraged Kemps plans to prove otherwise were only thwarted by a peace-making John Taylor. “Itll be Frankie Goes To Hospital if they dont watch out,” muttered Gary, who then flew off to Japan…