Welcome to the Pleasuredome

This peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Albums chart, and it had live songs of Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, and YYZ.

In 1984, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released their breakthrough album, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.

This was a double LP debut from the synth pop group, hit number one when it first came out in its first week, and it had over one million advanced orders.

The album features the chart-topping songs of Relax, Two Tribes, and The Power of Love.

Also, welcome to the Pleasure Dome, the title track, I might add.

In 1990, the Beautiful South released Choke.

This was their second studio album, peaked at number two on the UK albums chart, and it had the single A Little Time alongside my book and Let Love Speak Up Itself.

We had Frank Zappa with Watermelon and Easter Hay from the Joe's Garage set 1, 2, and 3.

And then we had Frankie Goes to Hollywood with Two Tribes from the Victims of Ravishment from Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.

That was a hard one.

Okay.

Liverpool album from Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

This is the follow-up to Pleasure Dome, right?

Yes.

Speaking of stiffs.

Yeah.

And then they come and they do this Liverpool record.

Uh, I'm reading that part of the problem on the Liverpool record was, and I didn't realize this, is that there were a ton of session musicians on the, um, the Pleasure Dome record, and the guys that were in the live band said, "Oh, no, we gotta play on this new record.

We gotta be a part of it." So that reluctantly happened.

Mm-hmm.

So welcome to the Pleasure Dome.

October of 1984, double du- uh, debut studio album featured Relax, Two Tribes, Power of Love.

Liverpool- October, 1986, the band's second and final studio album.

Mm-hmm.

They only had two albums, but I had, um, I ...

There was the, the album that, um, I had, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.

No, actually, they had more.

And so I used to practice.

And so even now when I'm a sound check, I'll warm up with the bass line to Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.

Because it's all over the place.

It's like this.

With the exception of the singer, he replaces them all with session musicians.

And so it's not actually Frankie Goes to Hollywood who plays on Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, their first and double album.

Launching a band's career with a double album is a very daring thing to do.

And yet four titles off that album will become number ones in England.