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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:26 PM
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Question: (1980's)
The Frankie Goes Hollywood "Choose Life" T shirts in the 1980's...Were these in any way, shape or form connected to a political message? Or was it as simple as: Frankie Says Relax.

Thanks, I think I was about 6 when this transpired.
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:27 PM
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1. George Michael wore them first when he was in Wham!
Don't know anything else.

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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:28 PM
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3. It was George Michael, not Frankie Goes Hollywood...
?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:28 PM
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2. They're flaming gays
Somehow I doubt they're fundies.
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:31 PM
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4. I always wondered about that too
I have no clue.
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:34 PM
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5. As I recall
Edited on Fri Apr-14-06 03:35 PM by gollygee
they were about drugs and/or suicide, not abortion.

And yeah, it was Wham!, not Frankie Goes to Hollywood :D

Those said

Frankie Say
RELAX
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:45 PM
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6. Choose Life meant not being a blinkered, anal retentive idiot
mind you I thought FGTH and Wham! were dickheads of the first order along with countless other 80s schlock.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-14-06 03:45 PM
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7. i thought it had something to do with AIDS awareness
but i could be wrong


i know the "Silence=Death" shirts from the late 80s were for AIDS awareness
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