Frankie goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
The lyrics of the title track, along with 'Relax', made Frankie Goes To Hollywood a media sensation as pop’s new Bad Boys, with banned records, banned videos and the usual crop of sensational quotes and moral hysteria.
The lyrics of the title track were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While criticized at the time of release and afterward for being a song that glorifies debauchery, the lyrics (and also Power of Love) make clear that the point of the song, just as Coleridge's poem, is about the dangers of this kind of lifestyle.
Nevertheless; the artwork on the gatefold and the original back cover might
still be debatable.
The lyrics of the title track, along with 'Relax', made Frankie Goes To Hollywood a media sensation as pop’s new Bad Boys, with banned records, banned videos and the usual crop of sensational quotes and moral hysteria.
The lyrics of the title track were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. While criticized at the time of release and afterward for being a song that glorifies debauchery, the lyrics (and also Power of Love) make clear that the point of the song, just as Coleridge's poem, is about the dangers of this kind of lifestyle.
Nevertheless; the artwork on the gatefold and the original back cover might
still be debatable.