Blast

Holly Johnson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 1989)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Uni
• ASIN: B00008FYEH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,681 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Out of print in the U.S.! UK reissue of the 1989 solo debut album from former Frankie Goes To Hollywood vocalist Holly Johnson. Following FGTH's split in 1986, Holly spent the next few years in a court battle against ZTT Records before finally gaining artistic freedom and recording this debut album. Though FGTH had fallen from grace with their last release, Blast was an enormous success for Holly, spawning the hit singles 'Love Train', 'Americanos' and 'Atomic City'. Not entirely different from FGTH, Blast offers the listener a new and improved Holly Johnson. 10 tracks. Universal. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original version of 2009 release., December 15, 2009

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Teresa Ray "TRay" (W. Ky.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blast (Audio CD)

Best remembered as the frontman for British pop phenomenon Frankie Goes to Hollywood, singer Holly Johnson was born February 9, 1960 in Liverpool; in 1977 he joined the short-lived Big in Japan, and after issuing a pair of solo singles, "Yankee Rose" and "Hobo Joe," he formed Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1980. Buffering their epic, opulent dance-pop with a brilliant marketing campaign highlighted by a series of provocative videos and sloganeering T-shirts, Frankie remains one of the '80s' quintessential bands, although their success proved short-lived and never really translated across the Atlantic; rising to superstardom on the strength of the singles "Relax," "Two Tribes," and "The Power of Love," their 1984 debut Welcome to the Pleasuredome was also well-received by the press, but the group's fall was as meteoric as their rise; after a disastrous 1986 effort, Liverpool, they disbanded. Johnson then spent the next several years locked in a court battle against label ZTT, ultimately winning his artistic freedom; he returned to music in 1989 with his solo debut Blast, which topped the UK charts. Dreams That Money Can't Buy followed two years later, around the time the openly-homosexual singer discovered he'd contracted HIV, a subject frankly detailed in his 1994 autobiography A Bone in My Flute. Also a successful painter, in 1996 Johnson exhibited his work in London; forming his own record label, Pleasuredome, in 1999 he issued his third LP, Soulstream. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TRACKS:, September 28, 2007

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themusiccollector "themusiccollector" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BLAST (Audio CD)

1. Atomic City
2. Heaven's Here
3. Americanos
4. Deep in Love
5. S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
6. Love Train
7. Got It Made
8. Love Will Come
9. Perfume
10. Feel Good