The best No 1 records: Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes | Dorian Lynskey

1984: This disco-metal warhead presented a loopy but potent cocktail of satire, hedonism and dreadIf nuclear annihilation was just a button away wouldn't you want to make a record that contained every idea you'd ever had? That was what Two Tribes sounded like. Inspired by Mad Max, William Burroughs, the Falklands war and a big bag of weed, Holly Johnson dreamed it up in obscurity. The cash bonanza of Relax enabled producer Trevor Horn to turn it into a gleaming disco-metal warhead and po-mo visi...

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