Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Elektronska muzika, Pop, Rok
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

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Studio album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Released 20 October 1986[1]
Recorded November 1985 – June 1986
Studios
Wisseloord (Amsterdam)
Sarm West (London)
Genre Hard rock
Length 43:43
Label ZTT
Producer Stephen Lipson
Frankie Goes to Hollywood chronology
Bang!
(1985) Liverpool
(1986) Bang!... The Greatest Hits of Frankie Goes to Hollywood
(1993)
Liverpool is the second and final studio album by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in October 1986. Produced by Stephen Lipson and mixed by Trevor Horn, the album showcases a Pop rock sound in contrast to the synth dance tone found in its predecessor, Welcome to the Pleasuredome. The recording sessions would be marred by the radical change in musical direction creating tension within the band.

The album received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial disappointment compared to its predecessor, but it charted at number 5 in the United Kingdom and was a modest success in other countries. It would be supported by the lead single “Rage Hard”, a UK number 4[8] and number 1 in Germany. Liverpool would be the band`s final album as lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

Recording
Johnson was distant from the band during the sessions and was unhappy about the album`s focus on rock over dance.[9] Jill Sinclair, Horn`s wife and one of the ZTT founders, later alleged that Johnson had been uncooperative and absent for most of the sessions.[9] According to Nash, Johnson was preoccupied with the serious illness of Wolfgang Kuhle, then Johnson`s boyfriend, but he did not tell the band.[10] Johnson`s distancing and disinterest came to the point that the band members concluded he was `finished and were in the market for a new singer`.[10] They invited Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon but he declined, Pete Wylie was also approached, but Johnson eventually remained with the band and completed Liverpool.[10][11] The session studio recordings were made in Ibiza, Holland and London.[12]

The album`s production was handled by Trevor Horn`s engineer Stephen Lipson, who urged the band to play their own instruments on this album (Horn having replaced many of the band`s performances and arrangements with his session musicians or his own performances on Welcome to the Pleasuredome). Lipson followed a laborious method of compiling the band`s performances via two 24-track Sony digital recorders, where different elements were transferred between 24-track tapes via offsets to create new versions.[13] Via this method, the song arrangements and structure could also be fine-tuned on tape as they went along, accumulating over 50 different multitrack versions of `Rage Hard`, for example.[13][14] Basic tracks were cut at Wisseloord Studios over eight weeks, with keyboard overdubs & final mixes at Sarm West in London.[14] Synclavier programming was also done with Lipson, albeit to a lesser extent than the previous album.[14]

According to Nash, the band was given contradicting information, with Horn considered as a producer or executive producer.[10] According to drummer Peter Gill, Horn had a less hands-on role, screening through the material and advising on changes to the songs via Lipson as they cut the basic tracks.[14] In the end Horn took over mixing it on which `spent a whopping £500,000 (making £840,000 in all) tidying it up`.[9][15] The band was so much in debt that they had to sell at least a million copies to start earning `a penny`.[10]

Music
Liverpool features a more hard rock and heavy metal sound than its predecessor.[12] In a 1986 interview with Sounds, Johnson said, `I describe `Liverpool` as removing the rose-tinted spectacles of Welcome to the Pleasuredome. It`s a more mature record and a more serious record, but it`s a case of like it or lump it, you know?`[16] Frankie Goes to Hollywood have not released any

All tracks are written by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson, Brian Nash and Mark O`Toole.

No. Title Length
1. `Warriors of the Wasteland` 4:53
2. `Rage Hard` 5:08
3. `Kill the Pain` 6:16
4. `Maximum Joy` 5:32
5. `Watching the Wildlife` 4:18
6. `Lunar Bay` 5:42
7. `For Heaven`s Sake` 4:29
8. `Is Anybody Out There?` 7:25
Personnel
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Holly Johnson – lead vocals
Paul Rutherford – backing vocals
Brian Nash – guitar
Mark O`Toole – bass guitar
Peter Gill – drums
Additional personnel

Trevor Horn – executive producer
Betsy Cook – backing vocals
Barry Diament – mastering
Stephen Lipson – guitar, keyboards, producer
Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin – guitar
Heff Moraes – assistant engineer
Richard Niles – string arrangements, brass arrangement
Andy Richards, Peter-John Vettese – keyboards
Anton Corbijn – photography