Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Lyrics

@ScednacAlexRogan

Here

@Communistchina9706

Here

@tony44397

One of the most unique bands from the 80's. One of a kind band.

@vitaminfian

Totally incomparable. Truly fresh every time and a bassline to make Nile and Bernard envious.

@ermannogallo9774

Ottimo l accostamento con Nile e Bernard: è una bella lotta tra le sponde dell' Oceano.

@Bob_cool84

Trevor wrote the bass line ..and the song though

@uv77mc85

@@Bob_cool84 Trevor is a very good bassist. Even played bass on a yes album while Chris Squire was in his prime

@LeeLee-bo3dr

So great a piece this is

@richardjeffreys2437

BERNARD? You are kidding right ? #nileswaslead#getiitright #fuckbuggles

@marklee7565

I’m 53 years old and this song still rocks,the bass is just on another dimension and Holly just absolutely nails it vocally. Personally the 12inch Pleasurefix Mix is the best version of this track….Shooting stars never stop ❤

@jooei2810

52 years old and I love FGTH in all their glory!

@brianrittall7271

Great song. Their bass guitarist is in another world.

@ferb_lebowski

Was awesome in 1984 and now exactly 40 years later it is still awesome...
You're stil listening? You had a great time then. You just discoverd this? Man you've missed a great time but you'll get the feeling at that time what we had... :)

@Baranoeda

What a masterpiece. Perfection, the song, music, bass, video. Everything.

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

I am classically trained in both the guitar and piano, I fully agree with you, this is really good music.

@julioalcaraz5417

I’m surprised that this song 🎶 hasn’t been used in a movie 🎥 soundtrack. For the right film, it would be great

@christinegili

Maybe mine?

@deborahpaley21

The bass is sick.

@whenwe9168

Does it have a cold?

@michelelaraia7358

Agree

@michelelaraia7358

🇮🇹👍🙋

@braxtongreenwell5482

Give it some Tylenol and place a cold cloth on its forehead.

@francescomaria9866

The whole production is sick!

@MrRumple9

Holly Johnson's voice is amazing

@winniegriff7786

His dancing too

@winniegriff7786

His dancing too

@kawaiilotus

Here's to you Rocky, you beguiling feral exquisite creature

@daveshakespeare1610

Now 36 years old and still an absolute masterpiece. They need to make peace with 1 and other and tour again.

@Writerlady2-Gerri

Oh they all had a falling out??

@ArmitageShanksMC

with one another

@fibrodad1354

They have and did. Its on here somewere, They tried touring but without holly it was not the same. And holly performs but usually in Italy were he lives.

@thunderwarrior1759

I bought tickets to the tour without Holly Johnson as lead singer..that tour was cancelled. So glad i saw them when Berlin were supporting them

@wakingohiomama9110

I thought he died???

@mrknotthall

I’m 75 years old and even I love this. Great music never goes out of style.

@oaledac

Er

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

Most certainly, some images of this amazing video seem to be taken from Federico Fellini's movies. Pleasure enslaving people and yet being entrancing.

@KappaDaKappa

I was born after the mid 80's and this is absolutely brilliant. You can't buy style.

@TonyVazquez8265

Ditto, sir! Almost 57 years old and
I fkin LOVE this!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

@garymunro7561

How cool is that, I always say, take a look at the photos of your grandad and look at me. I don't do old. Just pray you're as cool as me at this age!! I salute you sir!

@originalpickaxe

16 years old in 85 , just a CB radio in my bedroom and no social media , them were the days , I wouldn't trade it with today's teens and all the great 80s music to boot.

@andrewwheeler8591

Talent! Sadly missing these days

@dimasavila9158

I was 16 blasting this in my room in 85 today I'm 51 blasting it in my room still

@nathangarland9453

Not the same room surely?????

@dimasavila9158

@@nathangarland9453 🙈🙈🙈 larger room bose sound 82" screen 👊

@ltay5005

Love you!

@jenniferjames69

Me too 1951

@georgemathie8123

This is Trevor horns production masterpiece and cemented his legendary status as the producer who take 80s music to a whole new stratosphere

@nikkip3385

He absolutely did.
This and abc's lexicon of love are epic! 😊💖

@georgemathie8123

@@nikkip3385 also I loved his work with yes the drama album and 90125 and grace Jones slave to the rhythm as my personal favorites

@3DPeter

@@nikkip3385
Trevor Horn is the best producer ever imo. About 15 years ago he did a live concert for the princes thrust,
and that was sooooo amazing because he made sure that every voice and note sounded as the studio album
and he nailed it alright! I never ever heared a producer or a band that sounded live the same as on the record,
so he's sure a genious.

@georgemathie8123

90125 was the first yes album I owned and it made me a lifelong fan

@that_chaotic-person

Personally I have a soft spot for The Age of Plastic

@user-qs4je4gj1d

Jeder Song dieser Band ist großartig. ❤

@TheoElKiwito

80's music was REALLY something

@karenward267

In the 1980’s we were young and free. We existed in the moment. Very happy memories.

@ssb4918

Soo true !!

@bennetpeter1968

takes me right back love it

@kensharpe4472

Probably because we were under the threat of being nuked at any moment lol

@kellycosgrave4813

Everything's fucked up now 😢 We were lucky, so carefree ..... If only we could time travel eh 💖

@thomasmartin7524

and now you are old. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Hanzzaki

Cold war Iron Curtain mod Hoi4, great soundtrack

@TheResearchDepartment

Man, I used to play this song continuously back in ‘85...but I had never seen this video or even knew of its existence. Wow!

@jdoherty8268

Love this song! not so much the video. Play this in my headphones and it's powerful. I wish the vid complimented. Ah well....

@doctorjingles

Our club usually just played the 12" (which the video follows closely). I did awesome lights, especially in the "neon breakdown". It was the Parade in New Orleans.

@terryblaize4231

@@doctorjingles god bless my england..

@ChillinDylan

You should have said "I Want My MTV!"

@ZXFrankie

Best song ever 😀

@lucidityedits

WW84 needed more 80s music. This was the only song that played

@colmjulian5257

Apparently a couple of Gary Numan songs were in there too

@marc9704

it's a paradox but succumbing to our desires is our greatest misery, that's the message of this song

@lornapowell2362

1985 was a great year musically and frankie goes to hollywood were no exception. I think what a lot of people forget is that fgth were as much trevor horns production and a raft of session musicians he brought in, as much as it was the band themselves. They shot to fame in 1984 after being featured as an unsigned liverpool band on the tube, a uk music programme on the relatively new channel 4. Trevor horn then signed them up to ztt records and the rest is history. As a 14 year old i didnt care, none of it mattered to me, the album was brilliant. The marketing for their merchandise and records was everywhere and i bought all the different versions of two tribes and relax and welcome to the pleasuredome etc and didnt care...they were a great band during a fantastic time growing up in the 80s..."frankie say relax"...

@paulsimpson6899

Great comment. Their marketing was great back in the day and so many different versions of the singles came out.

@robferguson8696

Yep, perfectly sums up that moment in time

@garthlyon

Interesting factoid: John Peel (RIP) played their first commercial single 'Relax' (when I first heard it) in 1983, more than a year before it went mainstream in 1984 (concurrent with a daytime ban on R1).

@lornapowell2362

I might be off on the year as i originally put 1985, but i think relax was in 1984...either way....when i was at padgate college in the mid 80s a lad who used to get on the bus to college used to flog bootleg tapes of concerts and i remember buying a tape of an early unsigned frankie goes to hollywood gig. There songs sounded very different and much more raw...if you watch the tube clip where they feature frankie before they are signed to ztt, you can hear the early version of relax...and also the bondage gear that they used to wear...

@joshuashow8897

Hollys vocals were fantastic can’t give t horn all the credit

@windowsru169

У меня эта музыка ассоциируется с модом на Hearts of Iron IV “Cold War the Iron Curtain”

@geneclark3600

2024 now, this still is pure awesomeness

@bernie4728

I was born 1973...i am glad, to be a Part of this Area!😁

@terryblaize4231

Born in 56... Even better!!!!

@graemechristopher4008

1964

@Ricksta66

1966 for me :))

@C4rL72

1972 , same ! Some great stuff came out, then I got into Metal in 86- current. But I was obsessed by FGTH

@vickyashley887

Born 1973 loved 80s and then.90s dance kicked in god to go back , some of the best years of my life

@mohatchett8001

I wish i could go back to the 80s best years of my life great times.

@Writerlady2-Gerri

Yes!!!!

@rtb6048

oh yes please!!!

@paulcrisp9861

Have you got a time machine? Pity then we can all sneak back to the better days of music. FRANKIE GTH the eighties again yeah !!!

@Writerlady2-Gerri

Paul Crisp Yeah!!! That would be awesome but none of us would want to come back to this twisted world 🌎 Haha

@midnightwithoutyou61

Ohh, makes me wanna dance
Ohh, it's a new romance
Ohh, I look into your eyes
Ohh, best years of our lives

@greggdew8792

I so miss the 80's! Life was great back then. Music was original and talented. That time was So much more fun than today's mediocre, sombre and dull world..

@mrb.5610

I also remember being shit scarred the Americans and Russians were gonna start WW3 ....

@RICHBLACKCOCK

Gregg Dew. the 80`s was someth`in allrite: Crack Cocaine, AIDS/HIV. HOMELESSNESS. Reaganomics; most of which r still around right now. The music tho, was "UNTOUCHABLE"!!!! STILL IS!!!!!

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

The Zeitgeist today is indeed depressing, Gregg.

@dolphinbear661

@@mrb.5610 here we are again, dude

@mrb.5610

@@dolphinbear661 No .... don't think it's gonna be WW3.

But you know - I'm kinda ready for it.

C nts like Putin need to be stopped - whatever the cost.

@stratfordbaby

Never heard this song until now. February 4, 2023. And I was born in 1984, the same year this song was released. WOW!!!!

@DavyRo

You've lived a sheltered life 🤣😂🤣 only joking obviously Relax & two tribes are their most well know songs but this is the best one live, that they used to do. The live versions were sometimes 12 mins long absolutely fantastic it is

@kevinbailey2519

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@legion5927

Hoi 4 cold war curtain

@juliepollard8332

Their best song/video way ahead of their time,and yes I got the Frankie relax t-shirt,u loved them

@kimberleywilliams4151

I love that HOO HAH HOO HAH shit

@bronzeabe7757

Right I need a loop

@stevecunningham6537

HOO HAH HOO HAH

@tedbundy5372

Kinda of Al Pacinoish yeah?

@froeze

????

@tedbundy5372

@@froeze
????

@ninoboune4943

The 80s are the golden era of music, miss this year's !

@sxippydennison3577

There are so many elements of this song alone that were ahead of its time and still remain influential in music today. Just marvelous!

@wesleylima6169

Wonder Woman 1984 💥🙌🏾

@conradquek

The party scene was great

ETA: Intentional song choice, perhaps?

@seanian8986

@@conradquek definitely fits the message of the movie

@Nigelg68

one of the finest bass lines ever !!!!!!!!!!! it just drives this class tune

@RodriguezCorredor

In 1985, I was at my first year in college and remember very well when I purchased this album; was double LP. Something very strange for a debut album on a new rock band.
But certainly the music was and is amazing.
I also remember Saturday evening of that year, listening to this tune very loud on my home stereo. I used to have a second hand Pioneer amp, Pioneer speakers and a Marantz turntable.
That time won’t come back. What a happy memory.

@merkury06

Yes! Pumped thjis on a Kenwood amp -- Mega volume. I forgot this came out in '85!

@jacquelinejudge1659

Holly Johnson's a work of art in himself hope he's well these days

@hecateswolf6007

Life was hard in the 80s but a hell of a lot better in so many respects and not only the music. I was free and I didn't even know it.

@ltay5005

❤️

@a.tanner8524

I remember the 1980’s as being a heck of a lot better than the present day. By a long shot.

@heidifalzon1479

Right!!

@lizzieharvey6409

Listening to this non stop on repeat has inspired me to start my own baked beans company👍 thanks bisch

@chiaraa.300

So nice to see a fellow Belinker in the comment section

@joshwichrowski7228

@@chiaraa.300 only reason I came here lol

@chiaraa.300

​@@joshwichrowski7228 Rocky Flinstone is making us discover so much stuff - some of that good and some unpleasant and ridiculous

@nmh6483

How much are Heinz Beans per can in UK? We pay about 0.79 cents in our local super in Spain.

@larshollstein9552

i have forgotten to sleep walk
while dreaming of beanies

@kukuhfoe1110

I wasnt even were born but 80s will never be replaced. This is one of the brilliant music of all time

@dianesilva1078

Watching this having just been to see Wonderwoman84.
I saw them in concert in 84 too while at Uni. Happy memories!

@sandersmit6526

My favorite band when I was 14 years old. What an album Welcome to the Pleasuredome....mind blowing

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

I can listen to Claude Debussy and then this music, I love them both.

@stephenbarrow8955

Yesss Gay Pride 💞🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

@HDTomo

@@stephenbarrow8955 are they gay or smth? Or is this just random gay inserted?

@francesconero1953

Eurovision..una..pagliacciata....by...gio...sss....primo...ciao...

@80ssynthfan48

@@HDTomo The two singers are gay. Not the others.

@Nick-uy8jm

Fookin brilliant. You know when something is good when you get goosebumps. Good luck all for 2023.

@exxosuk

I've always loved FGTH. Welcome the the pleasuredome always gives me the chills. Such a fantastic track. Relax and two tribes are also my long time favourites. I love the whole album! Their sound just will never ever get old! Good old 80s synth beats and tallent! LONG LIVE FGTH!

@michelarnet8535

Whoever is playing that bass, he knows what he's doing 🙌

@cricketexplained8526

If you listen to the FGTH Peel Sessions from 1982, you'll see that even at 18, Mark O'Toole could kick ass on the bass.

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

The relentless, hypnotic rhythm of this track is without compare. There is nothing like this even in classical European music.

@cookiecrushershuh

I’m one of the few gen alpha kids who like this song. Good job, Frankie goes to Hollywood. I know this song by my dad

@all37en

Haven't seen the new Wonder Women movie yet, but I can tell you that the 13 minute plus original version of this song is nothing short of...…EPIC!!!!!! It's like going on a musical odyssey and you don't want it to end!!!

@mvorselen

The intro is the best part (9min)

@vinerscott

Where can i find that 13min version please?

@Radi0he4d1

@@vinerscott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVDC6kPCkWA
Get loaded, kick back, thank me later

@vinerscott

@@Radi0he4d1 thank you 👍🏻

@1977fudge

The only good part was this...

@timhealey6518

A Trevor Horn masterpiece in 2021 this still sounds damn amazing

@JazzFunk22

Trevor is a mf OG 🎹 🎚 🎹🎧

@keith-leecastle6700

I was born in 1968 so the 80s were my era (and still is!) ...I never loved FGTH but this tune is epic and without a doubt my favourite. It’s just really clever.

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

This is like a psychedelic song because the rhythm is hypnotic, is not it?

@guiltseeker

@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq YES
all Versions.. x

@mikekaraoke

So were the 70's mate!

@Pablo-ub4ht

Frankie can go anywhere he wants

@jenniferjames69

A little bit of a history lesson. Bloody great band

@robocop5935

These guys were really talented musicians. What a great voice.

@senorfix

In fact they were not talented musicians initially - according to Trevor Horn they didn't know how to play as a number of the original "members" left between the 1st single and the recording of album. No denying they were talented though and eventually they learned the instruments.

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

Ther rhythm of this track is just unbelievable, when I am feeling down, I listen to this song several times, it energizes me amazingly. Thanks Frankie Goes to Hollywood!

@80ssynthfan48

@@senorfix Wrong. The line up was the same from 1983-1987.

@SuperbonyTheCat

@NmpK24

@@senorfix Not true, I remember watching them on the Tube TV show before Trevor Horn signed them. They performed a live much funkier version of 'Relax' and could definitely play. Four of the original members also wrote all those big no 1 hits. Were they session musician level? Not really, but then Horn wanted more of an electronic backing sound anyway and he was correct considering their success. And it was Holly Johnson who left Frankie after their second album, the others wanted to continue. This is well documented.

@massimominelli369

Best Song of the 80´s!

@blacksnk

I think “Rage Hard” is their best, best this a VERY close second.

@rig4365

@@blacksnk yup, with you in this

@Michelle-ki3lj

This is like a mini film. I adored Frankie when I was just 14. Amazing music. So different. When Mike Reid made a point of banning Relax from Radio one i had no idea why. I didn't understand the songs words, i just loved the pulse and energy. Frankie were a brilliant piece of musical history. X

@stevejohnstone1702

Years ahead of its time, and Trevor Horn’s masterpie

@rbutton6702

100%

@Kirachan3

Hello fellow Belinkers!

@mikeyyaya8394

Epic Song 🎵 😎 👌 from an Epic Album!! Frankie, You Da Best!!
😘👌

@user-qe5co2vn5i

The 80s was 100% the best era for music and FGTH were the best group. ❤

@stephenkerrigan2813

aaw man, I'm 18 again and driving about in my chevette with this blasting outta my pioneer 6x9's with a sub thumping out the bass

@benjamin4827

FGTH pretty much banned in 1980's in South Africa, was difficult to find their material.
Just heard full version on MixFM93.8 in South Africa 🇿🇦
Brought back good memories.

Greetings from South Africa 💪🏿🎶🇿🇦

GOBBLESS

@TulipaBigDipa

Why were they banned?

@a090006

30 years back ,Lsd for the first time, this record sounded in my Pioneer speakers all night lang on endless repeat ,ooooh what a time was that :D

@poyowulf8630

Feeling of playing as west block.

@DouglasMacArthurTheCommaderino

Welcome to the pleasuredome! -MacArthur as he nukes Korea in 1950, Alt History options enabled.

@stratfordbaby

Holy Shit. That snake was scary even now. I've never seen this video. 38 years old and this is my first time.

@mikeyyaya8394

Classic Baby!!!
Go Frankie Hollywood Go, Baby!!!
😘👌😎👍

@jason28netherton

Two tribes brill, Relax brilliant but pleasure doom different level ❤️

@brycenew

A total dance floor bomb / DJ weapon. This is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Production is 🤯🔥
Frankie’s best ever track?!!

Thank you FGTH 🙏🏻❤️❤️🌟

@costelc4077

HOI4 Cold War Mod anyone?

@windowsru169

У меня эта музыка ассоциируется только с этим модом.

@chrisranz2714

This band rules 👍👍👍

@chrisranz2714

Three words awesome, awesome, awesome 👍👍👍.ll

@elizaokeeffe163

Brilliant saw him in The National Concert Hall in Dublin Ireland last night, it was a fantastic Gig well done Holly and Band. Well worth going to see him.

@thomasbrown3356

Never even knew there was a video for this banger!

@Barbaragood84

If ever a song explained life this is it! Live and enjoy yourself 😙❤

@mikeyyaya8394

THE WORLD 🌎 IS MY OYSTER!!!
😘👌

@connorsmart1970

Shooting Stars never stop even when they reach the top!

@anja9303

Einfach nur geil! Born 1962

@dartilov

Loved it back in the day and still love it now.

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq

This track never gets old.

@tamhaswoods9056

Good days. Back when Southall was a human wall, Sharpy was a goal machine and Reidy was the world's greatest enforcer :D

@yasminel.6977

Ich feier diese Bans immer noch ❤

@GeorgiaCav

I’ve loved this song since 1985 but never watched the video until now.

Other than it being set in a Mad Max 2/Road Warrior post-apocalypse in my imagination, this video goes exactly how I’d always imagined a video for this song would.

@davidbigair5206

The pleasure mix is a pure masterpiece. And their live performance of 2004 with Trevor Horn reminds us how good musicians they were 😉👍

@groengroen1183

that was with ryan

@DjRenigade

I totally agree!!! Mark on Bass!!! OH My God!!!!

@arronbryan5314

Don’t make em like this anymore do they? 80’s pop perfection right here ladies and gentlemen!

@glenthompson1788

Classic. And I'm a thrash fan!!!

@stegi7821

Echt schade das die so früh aufgehört haben. Die waren wirklich super ❤

@Seft2_

They done reformed several times

@karlalton3170

Omg i had forgot just how good this record was 😁😁🤘🤘🤘🤘

@mikekaraoke

And is 🙂

@normalwood7965

Finally, found this song from hoi4 iron curtain loading screen song

@petermiller6973

It was the time of youth. It was wonderful!

@reneschroder5117

Super,Original,Weiterso.Toll.💕

@erlinhld8745

I didn´t know that the guitar intro was played by Steve Howe, but now I recognize his style.....

@michaelbauer23

80s was great with all different music style. I love it. Never forget

@jeffreygan3455

They don't make such great memorable music anymore sadly! Missed the 80's.

@camptube7621

Amazing. The GOAT.

@edgar7525

The genius of Trevor Horn. It still sounds amazing in 2023

@ravishankarmukherjee2608

Thank you, Wonder Woman 1984 to introduce this gem of a track to me🔥

@edmilsonlennon2866

Wonder Woman 84 brought me here 💪👸

@MrDaveyboy125

The Business brought me here.

@ka81alex

@Edmilson Lennon
Sorry for you. Such a garbage (ww84) brought you to good music, not a good taste..

@gaspermali

@@ka81alex totally agree

@rolffriedrichwitte

Dieser Song ist doch echt klasse.

@djbranca8562

Abría Pinar de Rocha de Ramos mejía. (buenos aires) allá por los ´80s, con ésta tremenda canción. De la mano del querido pollo Sosa. Época inolvidable de nuestra juventud.

@rokapali69

What a intro! This is still a masterpiece of music....

@Lee71England

Absolutely epic.
I was much younger back in "the day", and always had visions of myself in some sort of theme park somewhere in the night sky (surrounded by shooting stars and supernovae of course) whenever I listened to this.
Today it came on the radio.....and at the age of 'half a century' I had visions of myself in a theme park up in the night sky. If that doesn't demonstrate to me the power of this track, nothing does. FGTH, thank you for creating such a forceful, evocative, never-die piece of music back in that fabulous decade we know as the 80s.....thank you.