Frankie Goes To Hollywood appear at The National Lottery’s Big Eurovision Welcome
This evening, The National Lottery are pleased to announce that Frankie Goes To Hollywood will be appearing at The National Lottery’s Big Eurovision Welcome on Sunday 7th May outside St.George’s Hall in Liverpool.
The legendary Liverpudlian band are coming back home to Liverpool for their first public appearance in 36 years.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood formed in Liverpool as part of the city’s thriving Post Punk scene. By May 1984, the band had released two of the best-selling British singles of all time; ‘Relax’ which spent five weeks at #1 and ‘Two Tribes’ which topped the UK charts for two and a half months.
In the pre-streaming era, only four artists had simultaneous #1 & #2 singles in the UK; The Beatles, John Lennon, Madonna and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. In addition, Frankie were only the 2nd ever band to have their first three singles go to number one, the first was their fellow Liverpudlians Gerry & The Pacemakers in the 60s, and the third was the Spice Girls in 90s. The song in this show will be the bands first public appearance in 36 years.
The announcement comes as Joel Dommett has just been announced as co-host with AJ Odudu for The National Lottery’s Big Eurovision Welcome with other Liverpool acts announced today such as The Lightning Seeds, Atomic Kitten, The Real Thing, Ricky Tomlinson, Shirley Ballas and The Vivienne all appearing at the show on 7th May.
Eurovision legend Conchita Wurst and Ukrainian 2016 Eurovision winner Jamala will also be performing in front of the near 30,000 crowd in the heart of Liverpool.
The last few thousand FREE tickets will be available from 12.00 noon TOMORROW (25th April) at bigeurovisionwelcome.co.uk. The free tickets serve as a thank you to the National Lottery players for the £330M they have contributed to over 3,600 music and cultural projects in Liverpool alone.
Highlights of The National Lottery’s Big Eurovision Welcome will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Monday 8th May as part of a special programme, ‘Eurovision Welcomes The World’.
