Frankie Goes to Hollywood Relax (1983)

Relax is the debut single by British new wave, pop group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in 1983. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984). Although fairly inauspicious upon initial release, Relax finally reached number one in the UK singles chart on 24 January 1984, ultimately becoming one of the most controversial and most commercially successful records of the entire decade. The single eventually sold a reported 1. 91 million copies in the UK alone, making it the seventh bestselling single in UK singles chart history. Following the release of the group s second single, Two Tribes, Relax rallied from a declining UK chart position during June 1984 to climb back up the UK charts and reattain number two spot behind Two Tribes at number one, representing multaneous chart success by a single act unprecedented since the early 1960s. Upon release in the United States in late 1984, Relax repeated its br, br,