Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Relax
From soft to hard, from dry to moist
Type: Single
Format: Compact cassette
Label: Zang Tuum Tumb
Catalogue ref.: CTIS102
Series: Discriminating Action series no. 1; Direct Incidental series no. 128; Singlette series no. 102
Release date: 23 July 1984
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chart position: UK: (Starting 06/11/1983) 77; 77; 67; 55; 54; 55; 46; 35; 35; 6; 2; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 2; 3; 6; 16; 21; 23; 21; 29; 29; 31; 26; 24; 21; 17; 16; 11; 5; 3; 2; 2; 3; 3; 3; 6; 7; 12; 20; 22; 29; 41; 47; 50; 66; 71; x; x; x; x; x; x; x; 93; 87; 89; 79 (10/2/1985) 68; 58; 64; 74; x; x; x; x; x; 68; 58; 64; 74; x; 91; 96; 86; 83; 89 (26/9/1993) 6; 5; 8; 13; 19; 41; 58
USA Billboard Top 100: (Starting 7/4/1984) 84; 72; 68; 68; 67; 78; 98 (19/1/1985 re-issue) 70; 45; 38; 35; 28; 21; 19; 17; 10; 10; 20; 26; 46; 64; 69; 76
USA Billboard Dance Single Sales: (Peak 30/3/1985) 26 (Re-issue peak 25/8/2001) 22
USA Billboard Dance Club Songs: (Peak 25/2/1984) 20 (Re-issue peak 7/7/2001) 19
Germany: (Starting 6/2/1984) 58; 4; 2; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 2; 3; 5; 9; 18; 25; 29; 40; 43; 63; 62; 74 (18/10/1993) 46; 27; 14; 14; 15; 13; 15; 15; 20; 22; 29; 33; 41; 84; 96; 97
Sleeve design: XL Design; ZTT
Photographer: Steve Romney
Notes: Limited to 40,000 copies.
Programme identical on both sides of the cassette
Occasionally the tracklisting printed on the sleeve art of a release isn’t 100% accurate. Tracks may be missing, mixes unspecified or misnamed. For this reason a more accurate actual tracklisting is shown alongside the printed tracklisting.
Inlay: Outer
RELAX
From Soft to Hard
From Dry to Moist
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
“come dancing”
(ZTT logo)
CTIS 102
RELAX
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
(Island logo)
(Chrome logo)
(Dolby logo)
“relax don’t do it when you watnt to suck it to it relax don’t do it when you want to come!”
Inlay: Inner
FROM SOFT TO HARD, FROM DRY TO MOIST…
A cassette celebration of the famous ‘Relax’…Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Trevor Horn and Zang Tuum Tumb made it big and beautiful and someone somewhere between the clean sheets made it banned…What was read into it?
Performed by FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD who are known to be: Holly Johnson, Peter Gill, Mark O’Toole, Brian Nash and Paul Rutherford. (They didn’t stay.)
Produced by TREVOR HORN assisted by his Building Theamb. Packaged by XLZTT.
Photograph taken by Steve Romney at the Camden Palace, November 1983, minutes before Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Special Act. “They shoot photographers, don’t they?”
Chapter Ten
Spokesman for ‘morality’ have no right to condemn or to try to prevent any kind of sexual relationship unless they can demonstrate that it is bringing society more unhappiness than happiness. It is always easy to produce illegitamacy, divorce and venereal disease statistics: but the statistics of sexual happiness are harder to come by.
This cassette can be both a part of Number One In Zang Tuum Tumb’s Discriminating Action Series and all of Number Twenty Nine in Zang Tuum Tumb’s Direct Incidental Series. “Never give a disc jockey an odd suck.”
Climbing in and out of the skin of ‘Relax’ (Gill-Johnson-O’Toole) on this cassette is the sigh, the invitation plus:
1/The Party Trick (Acting Dumb) 2/The Special Act (Adapted From The Sex Mix) 3/The U.S. Mix (Come Dancing) 4/The Single (The Act) and then, after the act, 5/Later On (From One September Monday) and 6/Gerry Marsden’s Ferry Across The Mersey (…and here I’ll stay.)
Published by Perfect Songs Ltd. ‘Ferry Across The Mersey’ published by Dick James Music
UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE. BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS CASSETTE PROHIBITED. ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND THE OWNER OF THIS RECORDED WORK RESERVED.
Holly Johnson
Mark O’Toole
Paul Morley
Paul Rutherford
Peter ‘Ped’ Gill