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
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
At some point in 2004 I joined a ZTT fan forum – the Alternate ZTT Board – and one of the first posts I saw
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: 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 (Hibakusha) format: 12″ single design: XLZTT photography: n/a illustration: n/a cat. no: XZIP 1 date: 06/08/84 art
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
Trevor Horn: “I’m very impressed with the product Union Square Music has come up with to celebrate the album’s anniversary. It has every element and
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
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
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
Did you do the Frankie logo as well? David Smart: “Yes” What was the thinking behind that? “Well he used to change too (the logo,
This is what the ‘Think Inside The Box’ post was about, a project I’ve been working on for the last few months but feels like
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
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
artist: Art Of Noise title: Close (To The Edit) format: 7″ single design: XLZTT photography: n/a cat. no: 7-9974 date: 05/84 art of notes: This
artist: Art Of Noise title: Beatbox (diversions one and two) format: 12″ single design: XLZTT photography: n/a cat. no: ZTIS 108 date: 26/03/84 art of
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: 12″ single design: XLZTT photography: n/a illustration: Anton Corbijn cat. no: 12ZTAS 2 date: ?/03/84 art of notes: On
David Smart: “Apart from that red there these are the colours of Refreshers”. artist: Propaganda title: Dr Mabuse format: 7″ / 12″ single design: XLZTT
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,
What was your thinking behind this composition …? Did they give you free rein to interpret the piece? Anne Yvonne Gilbert: “I had free rein
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:
Yvonne Gilbert (she’s since dropped the ‘Anne‘) is not a hard woman to track down. Her website is full of examples of her work, largely
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
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
You did the Two Tribes video, which then ended up being on some of the sleeves (‘Two Tribes (Carnage)’ / ‘War (Hidden)’). I took
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
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
