Something for the Weekend: Banned by the BBC

Posted 30 Jul 2016

33 years ago this tune you best recognize was banned by the BBC on both radio and television, which helped propel it to then #6 on the UK charts to #1. And #1 lots of other places even though not banned.

Can you name that tune in three faux ejaculations by a crazed Roman Emperor in a neon leather drag bar? I bet you can.

Though it wasn't banned from being semi-copied in lots of '80s porn video soundtracks. I guess because '80s porn video directors and producers aren't likely to consider something obscene as verboten. 

Now where am I going to get a FRANKIE SAYS RELAX t-shirt nowadays? Would have been great at the Republican Natonal Convention, also full of crazed Roman Emperors. Though from what I read as to an informal survey of m4m escorts in Cleveland during the RNC, business was booming with closet cases dough.

It does build up a lot of tension to pass the most virulently dangerous platforms, including but not limited to anti-LGBT horrors, then secretly be LGBT or some combination. Definitely important to hire a male escort at that point. 

Crazily, the song peaked at #10 on the overall Billboard Hot 100, but just #20 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Damn Madonna blocking Frankie Goes to Hollywood from the top spots in 1983-4. Madonna is so homophobic.

Get the full story on the song here, or as much as you can trust Wikipedia.