![]() It would even be a Top 5 hit for her again in 1994, as the more laidback Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun).Įverybody loves a one-hit wonder, especially one with a TV tie-in. Female empowerment anthem/love letter to partying Girls Just Want To Have Fun was the first of 11 Top 40 hits for Cyndi, and was her biggest. REALLY GOOD.) 2: Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have FunĪnother act enjoying their first taste of success this week in 1984 was orange-haired kooky New Yorker Cyndi Lauper. ![]() They were the first act to top the Official Singles Chart with their first three singles since Gerry & The Pacemakers in 1963.Īnd now, the rest of our retro Top 5. ![]() ![]() T-shirts and vests emblazoned with “FRANKIE SAY RELAX” became massively popular that summer.įrankie Goes To Hollywood amassed 13 Top 40 hits (six of which were reissues of their early singles), including those three Number 1s. Two Tribes gave the band another massive seller – it’s shifted 1.6 million copies.įrankie Goes To Hollywood caught the public’s imagination so much that they weren’t just running to the record shop to buy their records – they wanted to wear them too. Relax eventually landed back at Number 2 behind Two Tribes, so Frankie controlled the Top 2. Relax also has impressive staying power – thought it started to slip down the Top 40 after its tenure at Number 1 was over, it surged back up the Official Singles Chart upon the release of Frankie’s follow-up single Two Tribes. Relax spent five weeks at Number 1 and has sold a whopping 2,000,000 copies to make it the 6th best selling single in the UK ever. The ban was eventually, erm ‘relaxed’ (Very droll – Puns Ed), but the song’s success was already assured. Watch the video for Relax before we continue Frankie's story. This week in 1984, it spent its second week at the top. The storm over Relax helped carry it further up the Official Singles Chart, eventually landing on the throne every popstar wants to sit on. Eventually Radio 1 DJ Mike Read said live on air that he wouldn’t play the song, setting a snowball effect in motion which saw the track banned from being played on Radio 1 during the day and on Top Of The Pops altogether. The song took controversy head on – its single sleeve had overtly sexual imagery, which was pretty unusual back in the early ‘80s – and its lyrics could be interpreted as being on the steamy side. It wasn’t until the band performed the track on classic music show Top Of The Pops on BBC1 that the song really took off, thanks to charismatic frontman Holly Johnson. Relax was released in late 1983 and despite a high profile, provocative advertising campaign, climbed slowly up the Official Singles Chart. But one of the biggest, and most successful, controversies was caused by the debut hit of a young Liverpool band called Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Whether it’s a saucy video or a rude word that needs bleeping, there have been quite a few songs that have caused a scandal over the years. The Official Singles Chart is never short of controversies. It’s 30 years since one of the most controversial Number 1s ever ruled the charts, selling TWO million copies – and spawning almost as many T-shirts.
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