Welcome to the Pleasuredome
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However, the album's evergreen ballad "[[The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)|The Power of Love]]" would subsequently provide the group with their third consecutive UK [[List of Number 1 singles (UK)#1984|number one single]]. | However, the album's evergreen ballad "[[The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)|The Power of Love]]" would subsequently provide the group with their third consecutive UK [[List of Number 1 singles (UK)#1984|number one single]]. | ||
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== Booklet[http://www.indiepedia.de/index.php/Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood_%E2%80%93_Welcome_to_the_Pleasuredome] == | == Booklet[http://www.indiepedia.de/index.php/Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood_%E2%80%93_Welcome_to_the_Pleasuredome] == | ||
Im Booklet werden folgende Werke der Weltliteratur aufgezählt: | Im Booklet werden folgende Werke der Weltliteratur aufgezählt: |
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Welcome to the Pleasuredome was the debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, first released in the UK in October 1984 by ZTT/Island Records. Originally issued as a vinyl double album, it was assured of a UK chart entry at number one due to reported advance sales of over one million.
Whilst commercially successful, the album also drew criticism for containing new versions of the group's (already much-remixed) hit singles from the same year ("Relax" and "Two Tribes", plus B-side "War"), as well as a surfeit of cover versions in lieu of much new original material.
However, the album's evergreen ballad "The Power of Love" would subsequently provide the group with their third consecutive UK number one single.
The artwork is loaded with texts, quotes, dialogues and citations, referring to persons as diverse as Dostoievsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kurt Weill, Virginia Woolf...
Booklet[1]
Im Booklet werden folgende Werke der Weltliteratur aufgezählt:
- Die Krankheit zum Tode von Søren Kierkegaard
- Aurelia oder Der Traum und das Leben von Gérard de Nerval
- Die Blumen des Bösen von Charles Baudelaire
- Die Gesänge des Maldoror von Comte de Lautréamont
- Die Geburt der Tragödie von Friedrich Nietzsche
- Bestie Mensch von Émile Zola
- Hunger von Knut Hamsun
- Geschnittener Lorbeer von Édouard Dujardin
- Die Eroberung des Brotes von Pjotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin
- Das Jahr 2000: ein Rückblick auf das Jahr 1887 von Edward Bellamy
- Alice im Wunderland von Lewis Carroll
- Die Schlange im Paradies von Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Die künstlichen Paradiese von Charles Baudelaire
- Die toten Seelen von Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol
- Aufzeichnungen aus einem Totenhaus von Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
- Die Wildente von Henrik Ibsen
- Inferno von August Strindberg
- The Nether World von George Robert Gissing (bisher nicht auf deutsch)
- Eine Zeit in der Hölle von Arthur Rimbaud
- Moby Dick von Herman Melville
- Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray von Oscar Wilde