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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 32
Top works
- DAILY GUIDEPOSTS, 1992
- Communicating the Passion
- Reigning Bullets
- Breaking into Breakout Boxes
- Swell Mel Is Barking up the Wrong Tree
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Film & TV
Liverpool, England, UK
William Holly Johnson (born 9 February 1960) 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 –…
Known for
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome to the Pleasuredome — Lead Vocals2025
- The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas? — Self2024
- Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2023
- Legendary Children [All of Them Queer]2023
- George Michael: Outed — Self2023
- Holly Johnson - Baloise Session 2022 — Self2022
- Freedom: 50 Years of Pride — Self2022
- TV Story Superstar — Self (archive footage)2020
- Holly Johnson mit der SWR1 Band beim Finale der SWR1 Hitparade 2019 — Self - Performer2019
- Queer as Art — Self2017
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Holly Johnson is an artist, writer and musician (born William Johnson on February 9, 1960 in Liverpool, England; name on passport William Holly Johnson). Some sources erroneously suggest he was born in Khartoum, a myth Johnson himself apparently started during an interview. Actively involved in the Liverpool punk rock/new wave scene, Johnson played bass with Big in Japan and released several solo singles on the Eric's label, before finding fame as the lead singer and lyricist of Frankie Goes to
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Johnson
- Named after
- Holly Woodlawn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Liverpool
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- dance music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- ZTT Records
- Official website
- www.hollyjohnson.com
- Image
- Holly Johnson2014 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- member of
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- date of birth
- 1960-02-09
- influenced by
- Bow Wow Wow
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- Commons category
- Holly Johnson
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- social media followers
- 17000
- birth name
- William Johnson
- different from
- William Johnson
- pseudonym
- Holly Johnson
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- medical condition
- HIV infection
- name in native language
- Holly Johnson
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Holly Johnson, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
