Iona’s Song of the Week - No. 10
- ionacali
- Aug 31
- 1 min read
Iona’s SotW was released on June 4, 1984. Six days later, on June 10, it entered the UK charts in the Number One position, remaining there for the following nine weeks. The song was penned by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson, and Mark O’ Toole and was voted as the nation’s 14th best number one song of the 1980s in a 2015 poll.
It has sold 1.58 million copies in the UK as of November 2012, being in the Top 30 best-selling singles in the UK as of 2022! In addition, the songwriters Johnson, Gill and O'Toole received the 1984 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. Not too shabby!
The band was Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the forty-one-year-old song was Two Tribes. Needless to say, I have several 7” and 12” versions in my music collection!
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