6. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPY3qZtrGw8 Early '80s Liverpudlians Frankie Goes to Hollywood released the track Relax in 1983 and well...it was weird and slighly OTT. The video showed the band going to a gay S&M bar were they were eyed up by muscular men and drag queens. The, um, highlight of the video came when an overweight man dressed as a Roman emperor gave the band a golden shower. The track was so controversial the BBC refused to play it- even though it was the biggest selling track for a five weeks. BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read also refused to play it on his show, branding it obscene.
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