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Holly Johnson To Perform In Liverpool This October.

HOLLY JOHNSON, former Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman and songwriter, today announces his Dancing With No Fear solo tour: Unleashed from the Pleasuredome, appearing in the U.K. this October and with a night in the Liverpool Echo Two on Friday 2th October for the fans in his home city.

The October tour will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s 3x platinum debut album Welcome To The Pleasuredome which reached number 1 in October 1984. The album release followed the group’s controversial debut single Relax, and follow-up Two Tribes, both of which hit the number 1 spot in the U.K. single charts in the same year.

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Brian Nash, Nasher Says Relax: Inside The Band And Beyond The Pleasuredome. Book Review.

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The name of Frankie Goes To Hollywood still resonates down through the decades. From the band’s early days as the emerging Liverpool act to true world domination and the all too quick days that followed after the five men went their separate ways and the band was no more, every snippet of information is digested by their loyal fans.

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Guests And Presenters Announced For Inaugural Liverpool Music Awards.

The inaugural Liverpool Music Awards are taking place next month at The Dome on Renshaw Street and it has been announced that chart-topping band Lawson and Liverpool indie stars The Wombats will be appearing as two of the acts at the prestigious event.

The red-carpet event, hosted by Radio 2 D.J. Janice Long, will also see performances from X Factor finalist Craig Colton and M.O.B.O. Unsung Act award winner Esco Williams, Mark Simpson, the first person ever to win both the B.B.C.’s Young Composer and Young Musician titles in the same year along with Liverpool legend Ian Prowse, Cold Shoulder and the Sense of Sound Choir.

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