Frankie Goes to Hollywood would not release another record for seventeen months, and they would fail to emulate their past chart success upon their return. The spoken-word introductions to both 12-inch mixes are adapted from Walter Kaufmann's 1967 translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.
"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is the title track to the 1984 debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
The single spent a total of eleven weeks on the UK chart. It was the first release by the group not to reach number one and, despite representing a creditable success in its own right, it symbolically confirmed the end of the chart invincibility that the group had enjoyed during 1984.
The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In March 1985, the album track was abridged and remixed for release as the group's fourth UK single. While criticized at the time of release and afterward for being a song that glorifies debauchery, the lyrics (and video), just as Coleridge's poem, were about the dangers of this kind of lifestyle.
By mistake, the rerelease was originally printed in Monaural and was corrected via a mail-in replacement campaign. ==Reissues== The track has periodically been reissued as a single, including during 1993 and 2000.
By mistake, the rerelease was originally printed in Monaural and was corrected via a mail-in replacement campaign. ==Reissues== The track has periodically been reissued as a single, including during 1993 and 2000.
A 11:40 version of the regular "Real Altered" appears on the digital release and Sexmix. This complete cassette was slightly edited rereleased in 2012 on CD Sexmix Disk 1, Tracks 1–5.
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