New interview with Holly Johnson

[Patrick Bateman]

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/s ... -interview

[Sage]

Very funny.

[Hillbilly]

Very funny.

I also thought he looks very much like Neil on that picture!

[raggatwin]

always thought of him as the poor man's Neil Tennant.

[Corina]

always thought of him as the poor man's Neil Tennant.

Agree. Actually, there`s no resemblance at all.

[Deschanel]

I think Holly's a cool person I'd love to meet and talk with. And I love how subversive FGTH were- unapologetically decadent and raunchy and top of the pops, notorious even un the US. Seeing the original Caliguan-orgy video of Relax at some touristy disco in Italy on a 1984 class trip was quite something! That UK pop scene was kind of insane at the time, I'd bet Holly's got some great tales.

But let's face it- it was 2.5 hit songs and kaput. I think perhaps, maybe, even Holly would acknowledge that PSB is in a different universe. (Or maybe he bitchily wouldn't, hehe.) The comments at the Guardian for this articel were interesting- a lot of nostalgia, but besides the famous singles, some people really had to grasp for.. the case that Frankie were anything more than a fleeting sensation. Some really tried! And, nothing against fleeting pop sensations. For what they were, they were nowhere near PSB, but they weren't dull.

[leesmapman]

bumping this 10 year old thread because there's a new interview with Johnson in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... still-here

With an interesting quote:

Nonetheless, the extent to which they’d been exploited was not only apparent to the band – “when we saw the royalty statements and realised that we’d been taken for one big ride” – but by their pop music peers too. “Bronski Beat went around throwing scorn on us for signing that deal because they’d been offered it, but they had other options,” Johnson says. “Even when Neil Tennant interviewed me for Smash Hits” – a couple of years before he left the pop magazine for a new career as a Pet Shop Boy – “he was looking down his nose at me for signing that bad deal, but I didn’t give a toss, really. I made better records than all of them, as far as I’m concerned – records that have stood the test of time in a way that none of theirs have.”

[telys]

bumping this 10 year old thread because there's a new interview with Johnson in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... still-here

With an interesting quote:

Nonetheless, the extent to which they’d been exploited was not only apparent to the band – “when we saw the royalty statements and realised that we’d been taken for one big ride” – but by their pop music peers too. “Bronski Beat went around throwing scorn on us for signing that deal because they’d been offered it, but they had other options,” Johnson says. “Even when Neil Tennant interviewed me for Smash Hits” – a couple of years before he left the pop magazine for a new career as a Pet Shop Boy – “he was looking down his nose at me for signing that bad deal, but I didn’t give a toss, really. I made better records than all of them, as far as I’m concerned – records that have stood the test of time in a way that none of theirs have.”

That guy needs a reality check.