Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes (1984)
Nuclear armageddon played out as a loony disco bacchanal, packaged with an arsenal of promotional gimmicks and — here’s the punchline – blasted to No 1 for a phenomenal nine weeks. Wasn’t 1984 strange? Just as relations between the US and USSR were at their pre-Gorbachev worst, “Two Tribes” was almost indecently exciting, with singer Holly Johnson as a mad ringleader, not sure whether to fear annihilation or relish it. Engineered by ZTT Records to be not just a single but a cultural event, it still sounds inspirationally unhinged — an anti-war record like no other
(On Top of the Pops here)
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