Liverpool (album)


Liverpool is Frankie Goes to Hollywood's second and final studio album, released in October 1986. It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT. The album's production was handled by Trevor Horn's engineer Stephen Lipson, who urged the band to play their own instruments on this album Liverpool therefore features a heavier rock sound than its predecessor.
The album was a commercial disappointment compared to the band's previous effort, though it charted generally high at #5 in the United Kingdom and Germany, #7 on the Austrian and Swiss music charts and #8 in Norway. The cover photo was different depending on what format was purchased. It also produced the Top 5 single "Rage Hard", Top 20 single "Warriors of the Wasteland" and Top 30 single "Watching the Wildlife".

Track listing

All songs Gill/Johnson/Nash/O'Toole unless otherwise stated.
  1. "Warriors of the Wasteland" - 4:58
  2. "Rage Hard" - 5:03
  3. "Kill the Pain" - 6:16
  4. "Maximum Joy" - 5:32
  5. "Watching the Wildlife" - 4:18
  6. "Lunar Bay" - 5:42
  7. "For Heaven's Sake" - 4:29
  8. "Is Anybody Out There?" - 7:25
The 2000 German reissues includes two bonus tracks:
  1. " of Your Little Mind" - 6:15
  2. "Suffragette City" - 3:34

    Singles

  3. "Rage Hard"
  4. "Warriors of the Wasteland"
  5. "Watching the Wildlife"

    2-CD Deluxe Edition

In 2011, a remastered Deluxe Edition of Liverpool was released, featuring a second disc containing rare and previously unreleased material. The first CD contains the LP version of the original album with extra tracks and the second CD rare and unreleased tracks. A few tracks were removed off later issues due to complainants by the band members. Issues with those tracks are "number 15 in the Element Series", and those without are "number 19 in the Element Series".
CD1
  1. "Warriors of the Wasteland" - 4:54
  2. "Rage Hard" - 5:08
  3. "Kill the Pain" - 6:16
  4. "Maximum Joy" - 5:30
  5. "Watching the Wildlife" - 4:19
  6. "Lunar Bay" - 5:42
  7. "For Heaven's Sake" - 4:30
  8. "Is Anybody Out There?" - 7:28
  9. "The Waves" - 2:44
  10. "Pamela" - 0:22
  11. "Pocket Vibrator" - 3:31
  12. "Suffragette City" - 3:35
  13. "Roadhouse Blues" - 4:06
  14. " Satisfaction" - 4:50
  15. " of Your Little Mind" - 6:14
  16. "Rage Hard" - 5:07
CD2
  1. "Rage Hard" - 5:34
  2. "Warriors of the Wasteland" - 3:19
  3. "Warriors Cassetted" - 19:58
  4. "Drum Loop" - 3:19
  5. "Fuck Off" - 4:01
  6. "Wildlife Cassetted" - 24:26
  7. "Our Silver Turns to Gold" - 3:44 - 3:44
  8. "Delirious" - 3:12
  9. "Stan" - 0:42
  10. "For Heaven's Sake" - 7:54

    Chart performance

Personnel

;Additional personnel