Liverpool (Deluxe Edition) REVISED

After several months of uncertainty as to wheather this would actually see the light due to the withdrawl of the original planned release, Frankie Goes To Hollywoods follow up to the multi million selling Welcome To The Pleasuredome will hit the shops on June 20th 2011.

The story of Liverpool, the second Frankie Goes To Hollywood long player (released in the UK in November 1986), is not that of one city, or one place in time. It's the story of a journey around some odd and surprising corners of Europe. And the story of Liverpool, the deluxe edition, is a road movie retracing the band's steps in search of the tapes and memories that were left behind. For Frankie, the Liverpool story started off in Ireland, at Borris House in County Carlow in the summer of 1985. Tax exiles, they set about early song writing sessions and one of the first to be written – 'Warriors of the Wasteland' – set the tone for everything that followed.

Borris House was also a chance to wind down after the madness of 1985's world tour, Around the World in Mighty Ways, during which the band had morphed from pop stars to rock stars. And the music was going in the same direction, too. No one at the time felt uncomfortable with (or was probably even conscious of) what was to be the start of Liverpool's famous 'rock direction'. In the mid-80s, that's what bands did. They 'went rock'. They felt, perhaps mistakenly in hindsight, that they had to prove they could play live, and front up as well on The Tube (where they were forced to play live) as they could on Top of the Pops (where they were forced to mime). For Frankie, this transition resulted in a second (and last) powerful album that yielded more hit singles (Rage Hard and Warriors...) and hit the upper reaches of the charts in multiple territories.

24 years on, with the members of Frankie now scattered around the world, and the original spirit of the band scattered with it, there's more of a need than ever to retrace their steps, gather the tapes, transfer, analyse and reissue them in a format like this. Because that's when the real story starts: when the fans press play again.

Indeed, there's so much more to enjoy now, with eleven previously unreleased tracks and alternate mixes from the album sessions, beautifully expanded artwork and detailed notes featuring interviews with all five band members. This is the second part of the fascinating Frankie story (the first being Welcome To The Pleasuredome), presented as never before…and incorporating an element of the unknown.