Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Welcome to the Pleasuredome, the debut from Liverpool's Frankie Goes to Hollywood, arrived on ZTT on 29 October 1984 as a vinyl double album, and advance orders of more than a million made its UK number-one entry a foregone conclusion. Trevor Horn produced it, working at The Manor Studio, and his production swallows the record whole: much of the band's own playing was replaced by session musicians or by Horn himself, leaving Holly Johnson out front of a machine built in the control room.

It gathers new versions of the year's singles, "Relax", "Two Tribes" and the B-side "War", alongside a handful of covers, and the ballad "The Power of Love" then handed them a third straight UK number-one single. Roughly a quarter of a million went out the door in week one.

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