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Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome Vinyl Icon

Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, February 2010

IT STARTED in jail. In the spring of 1982, Mark O'Toole, bassist of fast-emerging Liverpool band Frankie Goes To Hollywood, was jamming on a new bass line in The Cells, a disused police station which had become a popular rehearsal space.

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