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Holly Johnson

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Soulstream (2014)	Europa (2014)	Dreams That Money Can't B (1991)
Blast (1989)

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34

Followers
35,409

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Liverpool, England

Genre
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Pop

Style
Rock/Pop

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Born

1960

Active
1977 to Present...

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Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Americanos	65,766	4 users
Love Train	25,602	4 users
Atomic City	3,970	3 users
Deep in Love	2,457	2 users
Heaven's Here	3,025	2 users

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Holly Johnson (born William Johnson, 9 February 1960; legal name William Holly Johnson) is an English artist, musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s. Prior to that, in the late 1970s he was a bassist for the band Big in Japan. In 1989, Johnson's debut solo album, Blast, reached number one in the UK albums chart. Two singles from the album – "Love Train" and "Americanos" – reached the top 5 of the UK Singles Chart. In the 1990s he embarked on a painting career.
Johnson was born in Liverpool, and was actively involved in that city's punk rock/new wave scene of the late 1970s. Johnson played bass with local band Big in Japan and also released two solo singles on the Eric's label. Both "Yankee Rose" and "Hobo Joe" failed to chart however. Johnson later found fame as the lead singer and lyricist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who experienced both controversy and phenomenal commercial success during 1984.