Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
“Welcome To The Pleasuredome” is FGTH’s fourth single, their first not to reach #1 in their homeland of the UK. It peaked at #2, kept from the top spot by the Philip Bailey/Phil Collins song “Easy Lover” in early 1985. It reached the top 20 in five other European countries and peaked at #48 in the U...
Life goes on day after day after day after day after day after...
Welcome to the pleasure dome
Welcome to the pleasure dome
Who-ha! Who-ha! Who-ha! Who-ha!
Who-ha! Who-ha! Who-ha! Who-ha!
Ha!
The animals are winding me up
The jungle call, the jungle call
Who-ha! Who-ha! Who-ha! Who-ha!
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a pleasuredome erect
Moving on, keep moving on, yeah
Moving at one million miles an hour
Using my power, I sell it by the hour
I have it so I market it
You really can't afford it, yeah, really can't afford it
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
There goes a supernova. What a pushover, yeah
There goes a supernova. What a pushover
We're a long way from home
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
On our way home
Going home where lovers roam
Long way from home
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Moving on, keep moving on
I will give you diamonds by the shower
Love your body even when it's old
Do it just as only I can do it
And never ever doing what I'm told
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
There goes a supernova. What a pushover, yeah
There goes a supernova. What a pushover
We're a long way from home
Welcome to the pleasuredome
On our way home
Going home where lovers roam
Long way from home
Welcome to the pleasuredome
Keep moving on
Got to reach the top, don't stop
Pay love and life, oh my
Keep moving on, yeah
Shooting stars never stop
Shooting stars never stop
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
There goes a supernova. What a pushover
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
There goes a supernova. What a pushover, yeah
There goes a supernova
Who-ha! Who-ha!
Welcome to the pleasuredome
Who-ha! Who-ha!
Going home where lovers roam
Welcome to the pleasuredome
Erect!
Who-ha! Who-ha!
The war is won
Who-ha! Who-ha!
The war is won
Boy! Boy! Boy!
Keep moving on
Got to reach the top, don't stop
Pay love and life, oh my
Keep moving on, yeah
Shooting stars never stop
Shooting stars never stop
Shooting stars never stop. Who-ha! Who-ha!
There goes a supernova. Who-ha! Who-ha!
What a pushover
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top
There goes a supernova. What a pushover
There goes a supernova. What a pushover, yeah!
Woo!
Ha!
We're a long way from home
Welcome to the pleasuredome
On our way home
Going home where lovers roam
Long way from home
Welcome to the pleasuredome
WELCOME!
The world is my oyster
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
The world is my oyster
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
The world is my oyster
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
WELCOME!
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Alternative to Reality) was written by Mark O’Toole & Brian Nash & Holly Johnson & Peter Gill.
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Alternative to Reality) was produced by Trevor Horn.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood released Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Alternative to Reality) on Mon Oct 29 1984.
Holly shared that he wrote the middle-eight synthesizer part into the single version of this song:
[FAN:] Who’s idea was it to introduce the new middle-eight synthesiser sound into the single version, Holly? That was brilliant…
Holly Johnson: mine, I wrote it before the BBC Radio Kid Jensen sessio...