Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two tribes (Annihilation)- original Used, second hand 12″ Check video

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“Two Tribes” is the second single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in May 1984. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
The single was a phenomenal success in the UK, staying at the top of the singles chart for nine consecutive weeks, during which time the groups previous single “Relax” climbed back up the charts to number two. It was the longest running number-one single in the UK between 1978 and 1991.
The single was released at the height of the Cold War, when general fears about global nuclear warfare were at a peak. Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the “two tribes” of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries (giving the examples of “cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons”), the song does contain the line “On the air America/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen”, a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.
Johnson also noted: “Theres two elements in the music an American funk line and a Russian line. Its the most obvious demonstration of two tribes that we have today.” To accentuate this inherent musical tension, Horn juxtaposed the driving funk/rock rhythm section with a dramatic formal string arrangement and plenty of orchestral stabs, a novel technique that Horn himself had pioneered the previous year in producing Yess “Owner of a Lonely Heart”.
ZTT aggressively marketed the single in terms of its topical political angle, promoting it with images of the group wearing American military garb in combat, as well as Soviet-style army uniforms set against an American urban backdrop.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
Label: Island Records, ZTT
Catalog#: ZTT|12ZTAS03
Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

Tracklist
A Two Tribes (Annihilation)
B1 War (Hide Yourself)
B2 Two Tribes (Surrender)
B3 One February Friday

Producer – Trevor Horn

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