Relax -Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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Prohibition is good for business. When it was first released, in October 1983, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's debut single just about troubled the top 40. Enter irate Radio 1 DJ Mike Read who, objecting to its saucy artwork and lyrics, refused to play the track during the chart rundown. The BBC then banned the song from radio and TV (the original video was all decadent nightclub scenes and allusions to "water sports"). Relax duly climbed to No 1, staying there for five weeks.

Commercial radio stations,of which there many by 1983,played it.

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Thodsis · 51-55, M

It's a wonderful video and a classic song.

The fuss that was made just meant it was more appealing to me and my mates. We, of course, didn't understand any of it and were slightly underwhelmed.

That might have been the result of misheard lyrics though. "When you want to suck a Chewit" didn't seem controversial. What was stressful about sucking a chewy sweet?

The PMRC should really have done more research before launching their famously mis-firing campaign a year or so later....