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Eric Alper
@thatericalper.com

On this day in 1983, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released “Relax.” The BBC banned it, but Britain couldn't stop buying it. Discover how the band turned controversy into pop history. zurl.co/hj08K

zurl.coHow Frankie Goes to Hollywood Turned Pop Music Into Chart-Topping Provocateurs - That Eric AlperThis is one of the great pop stories, full stop. A band from Liverpool takes their name off a random page of the New Yorker magazine, a headline about Frank Sinatra getting mobbed by teenyboppers, and turns it into one of the most explosive chart runs Britain has ever seen. Holly Johnson liked the phrase […]

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