Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Liverpool
David Quantick, NME, 25 October 1986
WHAT DO you do when you've made a completely excessive double album which made history as highly moderate filler? How do you feel when everyone talks about your album as if it had been made by your publicist and your producer? When you wrote songs which became more famous for American president impressions and peculiar sleevenotes?
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