Why the BBC banned Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ which celebrated homosexual love

@newwavesocialclub on Instagram: "Frankie Goes to Hollywood Released their debut single “Relax” on this day 42 years ago. 24-Oct-1983. One of the 80s most controversial and most commercially successful records, “Relax” eventually sold a reported two million copies in the UK alone, easily ranking among the ten biggest-selling singles ever. It remained in the UK Top 40 for 37 consecutive weeks, 35 of which overlapped with a radio airplay ban by the BBC (owing to lyrics perceived as overtly sexual)