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Frankie Say Buzz Off

Jim Sullivan, Record, February 1985

WELL, HOLLY Johnson, lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, would use a more explicit four-letter word than buzz to express his feelings toward anyone who would suggest his band is something less than the sum of its parts — or something less than the sum of the parts spliced together in the studio by production wiz Trevor Horn, seen by some as FGTH's version of Malcolm McLaren.

Total word count of piece: 2117

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