Robbed Hit of the Week 3/17/14 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome"...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Welcome To The Pleasuredome"
from the album Welcome To The Pleasuredome (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #48

This week's "robbed hit" is by the campy British new-wave act Frankie Goes To Hollywood, who finally broke big in America in 1985 with their #1 UK hit "Relax" on its second release. Their second big British hit, the anti-war "Two Tribes", had almost made the American pop top-40 right before that. Their next single in the States would be the title track to their album. Written by lead singer Holly Johnson with band members Mark O'Toole and Peter Gill, the song interpolates a poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to subtly bemoan the evils of sin...

"Welcome To The Pleasuredome" climbed to the top-50 of the American pop chart in May of 1985, while making it to #31 on the dance club play chart in Billboard. Internationally, the single just missed being FGTH's fourth consecutive #1 by a hair. while going top-10 in Ireland, New Zealand, and Germany (it also missed the top-40 in Canada by a notch). It would be that band's last time in the American Hot 100.

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Here's the extended version of the video...