Welcome to the Pleasuredome (song)

"Welcome to the Pleasuredome"
Single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
from the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome
B-side
  • "Get It On"
  • "Happy Hi!"
Released18 March 1985 (1985-03-18)
Length
  • 13:38 (album version)
  • 4:20 (7-inch version)
LabelZTT
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Trevor Horn
Frankie Goes to Hollywood singles chronology
"The Power of Love"
(1984) 		"Welcome to the Pleasuredome"
(1985) 		"Rage Hard"
(1986)
Music video
"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" on YouTube

"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is the title track to the 1984 debut album by English pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In March 1985, the album track was abridged and remixed for release as the group's fourth UK single.

While criticised at the time of release and afterward for being a song that glorifies debauchery, the lyrics (and video), just as Coleridge's poem, were about the dangers of mindless indulgence. This song, along with "Relax", made Frankie Goes to Hollywood even more controversial than they already were.

Billboard compared it to "Relax", saying that "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" had "less hook, less controversy, more drama."[1]

  1. ^ "Pop Picks" (PDF). Billboard. 30 March 1985. p. 73. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2022.