Two Tribes gave the band another massive seller – it’s shifted 1.6 million copies.įrankie Goes To Hollywood caught the public’s imagination so much that they weren’t just running to the record shop to buy their records – they wanted to wear them too. Relax eventually landed back at Number 2 behind Two Tribes, so Frankie controlled the Top 2. Relax also has impressive staying power – thought it started to slip down the Top 40 after its tenure at Number 1 was over, it surged back up the Official Singles Chart upon the release of Frankie’s follow-up single Two Tribes.
Relax spent five weeks at Number 1 and has sold a whopping 2,000,000 copies to make it the 6th best selling single in the UK ever. The ban was eventually, erm ‘relaxed’ (Very droll – Puns Ed), but the song’s success was already assured. Watch the video for Relax before we continue Frankie's story. This week in 1984, it spent its second week at the top. The storm over Relax helped carry it further up the Official Singles Chart, eventually landing on the throne every popstar wants to sit on.
Eventually Radio 1 DJ Mike Read said live on air that he wouldn’t play the song, setting a snowball effect in motion which saw the track banned from being played on Radio 1 during the day and on Top Of The Pops altogether. The song took controversy head on – its single sleeve had overtly sexual imagery, which was pretty unusual back in the early ‘80s – and its lyrics could be interpreted as being on the steamy side.
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