Acctualy he was "married" 3 or 4 times, all straight marriages. Marian Gold - who wrote the lyrics - isn't gay or bissexual, he never was. Kate from London, United KingdomI'm sorry to disappoint those who think that Gold is gay and that Big in Japan is a gay song.Sex is an easy way of making money and the song implies it. Junkies go to great lengths to make money to buy drugs. "Pay and I'll sleep by your side" obviously refers to prostitution. Male junkies would often turn into sex workers in order to keep up their addiction. The Zoo station was famous for both drugs and prostitution. The song itself might not be a "gay" song (I have trouble imagining what a gay song is) but it certainly implied gay prostitution when Gold wrote it. Having been married once or even several times is hardly a proof of sexual orientation. Berg from Lyon, FranceGold (the name itself is AbFab) might not be gay, or he might be.You can consider yourself the King/Queen if you know this. I have been researching for weeks and cannot find the answer.
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Aaron from Phoenix, AzCan ANYONE PLEASE tell me what movie "Big in Japan" awas featured in? I am thinking it was during some sort of montage in an 80's flick.I remember being in Paris in the January of '84 though, and that was the first time I heard 'Relax', so, all a bit confusing!! Marian Gold is on Facebook though, perhaps someone should ask him personally?!!! Another point, Frankie goes to Hollywood released Relax in Oct '83, Marian Gold mention this in the above copy of his interview, stating they needed some weeks to 'edge them out' of the charts. The song was in the charts for weeks, big dance song at the discos! I'm also fairly sure it was released before 1984 and I have it on a tape which I'm also thinking was made before '84. I lived in Switzerland in the 1980's and Alphaville were very popular there. Jan from Redhill, United KingdomB, Brooklyn, NY writes he thought he'd heard this song way before 1984.Forever Young has also just been re-released as a rap version, what a shame. Jan from Redhill, United KingdomPS, from Jan in UK, someone asked which film Big in Japan featured in, can't find that either, but Forever Young featured in a 1989 film 'Listen to me' according to Wikipedia.Agnes from NetherlandsI heard this song sung by Ane Brun in Tokyo fiancee, a film.The songs are almost identical to each other. It was played during the finalīasketball scene. Steve from Essex, UkFor people thinking it was in a movie you are likely thinking of Win in the End by Mark Safan in Teen Wolf from 1985.And Holly Johnson, the singer of the band, was the singer of this band "Big in Japan," who I stole the line some years ago, before he came to Frankie Goes To Hollywood."
"It was strange: as we released the song later, Frankie Goes To Hollywood was the #1 in the charts with " Relax" and we needed some weeks to edge them out. So I used it for the refrain of the song." Anyway that statement fit perfectly to the story of the couple of lovers. And if you aren't that, you can tell it at home. "Big in Japan" meant so much as if you are nothing in your environs, you can be big somewhere else. I bought the album of a British band named Big In Japan. There was a fellow, who sold stuff of independent bands from US and UK. There was the rumor he would be in Berlin for withdrawal treatment in that period. "In 1977 I was quite regular in a club in Kreuzberg, the SO36. That's why this place became a venue of the song." Till nowadays Berlin station Zoo is an important meeting place for junkies. They both imagine how great it would be to love without the drug: no steal, no clients, no ice age in the pupil, real emotions, true worlds. "'Big In Japan' tells about a couple of lovers trying to get off Heroin.
Bernhard recognized the quality of the song and Andy the ability of its marketing." In a 1998 interview with the German online magazine Re.flexion, Alphaville lead signer Marian Gold explained: "I must admit the only ones who understood the meaning of the song correctly were Bernhard (Lloyd) and our then publisher Andy Budde.
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