![]() Did your experience with Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s controversial (and banned by the BBC) ‘Relax’ make you prepared for it? Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan campaigned to have the video outlawed in the UK. Within five minutes, they were both crying.” You need to be tougher with them!’, and went out and shouted at them in Russian. At one point, he told me: ‘You’re being too patient. He was a crazy Russian who got bored with how slow the progress was taking. They were always trying to cadge cigarettes off me because their manager didn’t want them to be seen smoking. It isn’t easy to sing in a foreign language, especially convincingly. It took us two weeks to do just the vocals. “It was hard work, because when we started they could barely speak a word of English. You produced and wrote the English lyrics to the 2000 t.A.T.u original… “You’ve got me here! I wasn’t aware anybody had covered it.” I mean, they and Frankie Goes to Hollywood weren’t Tupac and Biggie!”Ħ Which singer covered t.A.T.u’s ‘All the Things She Said’ in 2020? Duran Duran seem like a nice bunch of guys, so I’m sure they took it in a humorous way. Paul Morley was always trying to sneak stuff past us – mainly small illustrations of sex acts between animals. “I didn’t even realise they mentioned Duran Duran! That’s how much I turned my back on all that. The ZTT campaign declared: ‘Frankie Goes to Hollywood are coming… making Duran Duran lick the shit off their shoes.’ “That was so unpleasant, I ignored it really.” At the start they were an exhilarating combination – three straight guys and two gay guys was a pretty new thing.”įor a bonus half-point: in the first advert for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, which band did they claim they were making “lick the shit off their shoes”? When people get that kind of success, there’s always people whispering in their ear saying bad stuff about the record label. Our relationship only started to fracture when the band itself began to fracture. Initially the band freaked us out, but for the first eight-to-10 months working with Frankie was really good fun. “I thought about guessing Boy George, but there you go! It was exciting when ‘Relax’ was selling. “I remember that happening, but I don’t know who it was.” But which pop star once wrote an open letter to a music magazine claiming that the video for their single ‘Relax’ was cheap, disgusting and gave “gay people a bad name”? 1 You produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who were the first major signing to your record label ZTT.
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