Frankie Goes To Hollywood ‘Welcome To The Pleasuredome’ LP picture disc
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Welcome To The Pleasuredome format: 2xLP picture disc design: XLZTT illustration: Lo Cole photography: Anton Corbijn / Peter Ashworth
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Welcome To The Pleasuredome format: 2xLP picture disc design: XLZTT illustration: Lo Cole photography: Anton Corbijn / Peter Ashworth
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Welcome To The Pleasuredome format: A3 promo poster design: XLZTT illustration: Lo Cole photography: Anton Corbijn / Peter Ashworth
I’ve only ever seen close up sitting and longer shots with the band standing as on the No.1 cover – did you do any more
There are lots of props, masks, horns, animals, even a small child, was this all your idea or the brief? Peter Ashworth: “Paul wanted lots
Paul Morley: “I was always very keen on doing an ad that suited the publication, which people thought was mental but, if it was NME
Was this shoot specifically for the album or actually for a magazine and then used on the LP? Peter Ashworth: “I shot them 2 or
Paul Morley: “It was bad enough trying to get away with four sides and the other thing that I wanted to do was the original
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Welcome To The Pleasuredome format: 1 pg Melody Maker advert design: XLZTT Photography: Anton Corbijn cat. no: ZTT IQ
Peter Ashworth: “Paul Morley wanted a jungle that had all sorts of references hidden within it, inferences to money, power, sex …. but not in
So, the Frankie campaign: the sperm + the bomb + the heart … I mean, you can’t have had that from the off? Paul Morley:
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 1/2 pg Zig Zag advert design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 04/84
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 1 pg Record Mirror advert design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 09/06/84
Another look behind the scenes at some work I’ve been doing on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood box set for the 30th anniversary edition of
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes (Carnage) format: US 12″ single design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt / Eric Watson illustration: n/a cat. no:
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: US 7″ single design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt / Eric Watson illustration: n/a cat. no: 7-99695
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: sheet music design: XLZTT photography: Steve Rumney illustration: n/a cat. no: n/a date: ?/?/84 art of notes:
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 1/2 pg advert for ? design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: ?/0?/84
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes (Keep The Peace) format: cassette ‘singlette’ design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn illustration: n/a cat. no: CTIS 103
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax (From Soft To Hard, From Dry To Moist) format: cassette ‘singlette’ design: XLZTT photography: Steve Rumney illustration: n/a
AJ Barratt: (talking about the shot of Frankie at the Camden Palace) “The record label started and there were all (these) very exciting PAs at
John Stoddart: “But then I did the shoot in the T-shirts and everything, that definitely came through from ZTT, it had nothing to do with
Paul Morley: “Anton Corbijn, I built up an early relationship with him, (from the NME days) we were colleagues and we worked together. At the
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 1 pg No.1 advert design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 16/06/84 art
AJ Barratt: “I think there was a sense of that video being something that would really turn heads worldwide. And it did. I don’t know
Neil Tennant: “Eric had just shot the campaign for Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Two Tribes” and Paul Morley had brought him out of his shell.
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: Promo fly poster design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 06/84 art of
Paul Morley: “I think I was using the sleeve notes in a way to talk to Trevor, often that would happen. In all the Frankie
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 1/2 pg Blitz advert design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 05/84
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 43cm x 43cm promo poster design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: 12ZTAS 3 date: 04/06/84
Paul Morley: “I was always very keen on doing an ad that suited the publication, which people thought was mental but, if it was NME
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 43cm x 43cm promo poster design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: 12ZTAS 3 date: 04/06/84
Was a new remix an excuse to write a new set of sleevenotes, a new chapter to the ZTT story? Paul Morley: “Well, it was
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 51cm x 34cm promo poster design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 06/84
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: 7″ single picture disc design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: PZTAS 3 date: 18/06/84 art
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Two Tribes format: A3 promo poster design: XLZTT photography: Eric Watson cat. no: ZTAS 3 date: 06/84 art of
Paul Morley: “‘Relax’ had been number one so it was quite late in the day. So I started putting together the promotional material if you
Paul Morley: “Because of Trevor’s inability to complete records on time it meant we were often advertising records that didn’t exist. ‘Two Tribes’ we advertised
artist: Various title: It’s Getting Clearer format: Blitz 1pg advert design: XLZTT illustration: Anton Corbijn / Anne Yvonne Gilbert cat. no: n/a date: 03/84 art
artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: Zig Zag 1pg advert design: XLZTT illustration: Anton Corbijn cat. no: ZTAS2 date: 03/84 art of notes: a second,
Paul Morley: “I didn’t want them to be called… ‘cassingles’, because they were obviously ‘singlettes’. How had we ended up with ‘cassingles’? It’s such an
artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: A3 poster design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn illustration: n/a cat. no: 12ZTAS 2 date: 27/02/84 art of notes: Some
David Smart: “Apart from that red there these are the colours of Refreshers”. artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: 7″ / 12″ single design: XLZTT
Paul Morley: “What an advert – beautiful madness, who on earth let me get away with it ! … those were if not the days
artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: 1 pg Record Mirror / No.1 advert design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn cat. no: ZTAS2 date: 10/03/84 art of
artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: 12″ single design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn illustration: Anton Corbijn cat. no: 12ZTAS 2 date: 27/02/84 art of notes:
David Smart: “I always loved this one with the Anton Corbijn paintings and that logo with the sword. His photos were a gift really because,
David Smart: “I’ve kept that one because I had great fun doing that. Apart from that red there these are the colours of Refreshers. And
artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: Blitz 1pg advert design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt cat. no: ZTAS2 date: 02/84 art of notes: possibly the only
Stephen Rumney: “I used to take photos at the Camden Palace in the mid 80s and I was there the night that Frankie did their
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax (30th Anniversary) format: 12″ single design: Philip Marshall after XLZTT photography: John Stoddart and Anne Yvonne Gilbert illustration:
AJ Barratt: “So, I would just go out on a Saturday afternoon, go down to parts of London that I didn’t know and I’d just
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: Sounds 1/2 pg advert design: XLZTT photography: Anton Corbijn cat. no: ZTAS1 date: 19/11/83 art of notes:
Paul Morley: “…with Frankie, ‘Relax’, Frankie already had that image ‘cos a friend of their had done it (Anne Yvonne Gilbert). I wanted to put
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: No.1 magazine 1/2 pg advert design: XLZTT photography: John Stoddart cat. no: ZTAS1 date: 29/10/83 art of
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: NME full pg advert design: XLZTT photography: John Stoddart cat. no: ZTAS1 date: 29/10/83 art of notes:
Anne Yvonne Gilbert: “My women are always in charge – I don’t think I’ve ever produced an image where they aren’t. When Holly needed an
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: A2 promotional poster design: XLZTT photography: John Stoddart cat. no: ZTAS1 date: 10/83 art of notes: The
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: NME 1/4 pg advert design: XLZTT photography: John Stoddart cat. no: ZTAS1 date: 22/10/83 art of notes:
artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood title: Relax format: NME 1/4 pg advert design: XLZTT photography: John Stoddart cat. no: ZTAS1 date: 22/10/83 art of notes:
You did the Two Tribes video, which then ended up being on some of the sleeves (‘Two Tribes (Carnage)’ / ‘War (Hidden)’). I took
AJ Barratt: “As a matter of history they’re my arms on the spanner shot – I used a shutter release at my feet and guessed the
AJ Barratt: “So, I would just go out on a Saturday afternoon, go down to parts of London that I didn’t know and I’d just
I arrive early, at a pub just outside Hither Green station in deepest South East London, to meet Tony ‘AJ’ Barratt, renown music magazine photographer
What was the idea behind the Art of Noise image? Obviously the theatre with the masks and stuff… David Smart: “To be honest I can’t
artist: Art Of Noise title: Into Battle with… format: Melody Maker 1/2 pg advert design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt cat. no: ZTIS100 date: 08/10/83 art
artist: Art Of Noise title: Into Battle with… format: Sounds 1/2 pg advert design: XLZTT photography: AJ Barratt cat. no: ZTIS100 date: 08/10/83 art of
AJ Barratt: “I remember going into the NME offices one day and I saw this poster on their wall, and someone had added a third
On the artwork side of things: you were pretty instrumental on the direction of it. Were you bringing in reams of text to be interpreted
