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  align "center" colspan="3"
  !align "center" bgcolor="yellow" colspan="3"Single by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
  !align "center" colspan="3"Included on the album '' Welcome To The Pleasuredome ''
  !align "left" valign="top"Single Released
  colspan "2" valign="top" 24 October , 1983
  !align "left" valign="top"Single Format
  colspan "2" valign="top" Vinyl Record (7" & 12"), Cassette Single
  !align "left" valign="top"Recorded
  colspan "2" valign="top" 1983
  !align "left" valign="top" Genre
  colspan "2" valign="top" Dance , New Wave
  !align "left" valign="top" Record Label
  colspan "2" valign="top" ZTT
  !align "left" valign="top" Producer
  colspan "2" valign="top" Trevor Horn
  !align "left" valign="top" Chart positions
  colspan "2" valign="top"1 (UK)<br>10 (USA)
  !bgcolor "yellow" colspan="3"Frankie Goes To Hollywood single chronology
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  valign "top"<small>" Relax "<br /> 1983 </small>
  valign "top"<small>" Two Tribes "<br /> 1984 </small>


  <blockquote>One Of The Reasons We Did All The Remixes Was That The Initial 12-inch Version Of 'Relax' Contained Something Called 'The Sex Mix', Which Was 16 Minutes Long And Didn't Even Contain A Song It Was Really "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Holly_Johnson" class="copylinks">Holly Johnson just jamming, as well as a bunch of Samples of the group jumping in the swimming pool and me sort of making disgusting noises by dropping stuff into buckets of water! We got so many complaints about it -- particularly from gay clubs, who found it offensive -- that we cut it in half and reduced it down to eight minutes, by taking out some of the slightly more offensive parts became the "New York Mix" Then we got another load of complaints, because the single version wasn't on the 12-inch -- I didn't see the point in this at the time, but I was eventually put straight about it{{cite newsurl=http://wwwsoundonsoundcom/sos/1994_articles/aug94/trevorhornhtmlpublisher=Sound On Sound
  <blockquote>It Was Only When I Went To This Club And Heard The Sort Of Things They Were Playing That I Really Understood About 12-inch Remixes Although I Myself Had Already Had A Couple Of Big 12-inch Hits, I'd Never Heard Them Being Played On A Big Sound System, And So I Then Went Back And Mixed 'Relax' Again And That Was The Version Which Sold A Couple Of Million Over Here "in" class="copylinks" target="_blank">the UK {{cite newsurl=http://wwwsoundonsoundcom/sos/1994_articles/aug94/trevorhornhtmlpublisher=Sound On Sound