Two Tribes

1953

Reagan had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s).

Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks on 26 July 1953.

1959

How you might as well be paid in petrol." And the line "Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new gods?" was inspired by the 1959 British film Cover Girl Killer.

1960

Certain violent moments ("Reagan" is seen, for example, biting "Chernenko's" ear) were edited from the version shown on MTV. A longer version of the video (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory, heavily edited monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No ...

1980

It was the longest-running number-one single in the UK of the 1980s.

In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 14th-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. ==Music== A version of "Two Tribes" was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.

Reagan had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s).

1982

In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 14th-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. ==Music== A version of "Two Tribes" was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.

1984

"Two Tribes" is an anti-war song by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records on 4 June 1984.

It entered the charts at number one on 10 June 1984 and stayed at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine consecutive weeks, during which time the group's previous single "Relax" climbed back up the charts to number two.

Songwriters Johnson, Gill and O'Toole received the 1984 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.

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 line "On the air America/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen" is a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan.

1985

"Annihilation" was the basis for the "Hibakusha" mix, which was originally released in a limited edition, and appears on the Japanese-only 1985 album Bang!. "For the Victims of Ravishment" appeared on the LP and cassette editions of the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome.

2012

It has sold 1.58 million copies in the UK as of November 2012.

2015

In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 14th-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. ==Music== A version of "Two Tribes" was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.




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