"The last time I picked up the award for 'Relax' was at the BPI Awards in 1985, which later became the Brit Awards, and we got the BBC Radio 1 Listener's Award, even though they weren't able to listen to it. And it was the only award voted by the public. I think we also got best band that year.
"I had to hand out an award to Prince for Best International Act, but I ended up offending Prince. At the time, the Village People had just released a record, and that had been banned, strangely.
"I said, 'I've never met this guy, but we've had sex over the phone.' That was the title of the Village People track, and it was my attempt at humour. But obviously Prince's face on the big screen dropped a million miles, and his big bodyguard came walking towards me. He wasn't best pleased. He felt he'd been treated with utmost disrespect." -- Holly Johnson från Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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"As the production got under way, it quickly became clear that Michael Jackson’s creative ambitions for the [This Is It] concerts were beyond anything he’d ever attempted. With the budget already past $24 million, Jackson told his team he wanted to recreate one of the world’s largest waterfalls on the stage. “I was ready to jump off the balcony of my office,” Phillips says. “We went and met with Michael, and Kenny said, ‘Michael, you’ve got to stop. We’ve got an incredible show, we don’t need any more vignettes.’ Michael said, ‘But Kenny, God channels this through me at night. I can’t sleep because I’m so super-charged.’ Kenny said, ‘But Michael, we have to finish. Can’t God take a vacation?’ Without missing a beat, Michael said, ‘You don’t understand — if I’m not there to receive these ideas, God might give them to Prince.’” [Entertainment Weekly]
Prince, oförskräckt av det ljumma mottagandet hans Purple Rain-uppföljare Around the World In A Day fick, blev ännu mer experimentell och psykadelisk med Parade, hans åttonde album i ordningen och ännu ett soundtrack till en medioker film. Det sägs att hans legendariska backupband vid den här tiden, The Revolution, är anledningen till Prince diversifiering på de fyra album han spelade in med dem, och aldrig innan - och tyvärr aldrig igen - spelade Prince med så många olika genrer på ett och samma album. Men det bästa albumet i hans karriär låg just runt hörnet...
Vi tar oss raskt vidare i följetongen Dagens album.
