Blast (album)

Blast is the debut solo album by the British musician Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released in 1989 and reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart and sold over 300,000 copies making it platinum. The album stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. The album features the hits "Love Train", "Americanos", "Atomic City" and "Heaven's Here". The album was re-released in November 2009 and again in November 2010.

This article is about the Holly Johnson album. For the Yuvan Shankar Raja album, see The Blast (album).

Blast
Studio album by
Holly Johnson
Released24 April 1989[1]
GenreDance
Length42:55
LabelMCA
ProducerAndy Richards, Dan Hartman, Stephen Hague, Steve Lovell
Holly Johnson chronology
Blast
(1989)		 Hollelujah
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
New Musical Express8/10[3]
Record-Journal (USA)B[4]
Record Mirror[5]
The Age (Australia)unfavourable[6]

In 2010, Johnson marked "Love Will Come" and "Heaven's Here" as his favourite tracks from the album.[7] The album's title Blast came from the short-lived magazine of the early-20th century British Vorticist art movement.[8]

In a 2014 interview with The Arts Desk, Johnson spoke of his reaction to the success of Blast following the stressful nature of his court case with record label ZTT:

"The week it got to No.1 I was very... vindicated. That was a transient moment of victory in retrospect. I'd been on the promotional trail, touring and on the endless European television shows that existed in those days, for years and years, since the beginning of '84. Towards the end of '89, with a couple of hit singles and a platinum-selling album. I started to get health worries that ultimately came to consume my life for quite a number of years."[9]

Track listing

All tracks written by Johnson except "Atomic City" (Johnson, Dan Hartman).

  1. "Atomic City" – 6:15
  2. "Heaven's Here" – 4:16
  3. "Americanos" – 3:35
  4. "Deep in Love" – 3:58
  5. "S.U.C.C.E.S.S." – 3:31
  6. "Love Train" – 4:02
  7. "Got It Made" – 3:49
  8. "Love Will Come" – 4:28
  9. "Perfume" – 3:33
  10. "Feel Good" – 5:28

Personnel

Chart performance
Chart (1989) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[10] 97
Austrian Albums Chart[11] 12
Dutch Albums Chart[12] 27
German Albums Chart[13] 5
Italian Albums Chart[14] 10
New Zealand Albums Chart[15] 11
Norwegian Albums Chart[16] 10
Swedish Albums Chart[17] 11
Swiss Albums Chart[18] 10
UK Albums Chart[19] 1

References
  1. Smith, Robin (15 April 1989). "News: Oh Blast". Record Mirror. p. 4.
  2. "Blast". Allmusic. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  3. Quantick, David (22 April 1989). "Master Blaster". New Musical Express. p. 31.
  4. "Record-Journal - Google News Archive Search".
  5. Nicholson, Tim (22 April 1989). "33". Record Mirror. p. 32. ISSN 0144-5804.
  6. "The Age - Google News Archive Search".
  7. Ashley Smith (29 December 2010). "Holly Johnson Questions". Slade Discography Website. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  8. hollyjohnson.com The Story Behind the "Europa" Album Artwork Revealed
  9. "theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Holly Johnson". The Arts Desk. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  10. "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 13 September 2016". Imgur.com. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  11. Steffen Hung. "Holly Johnson - Blast". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  12. Steffen Hung. "Holly Johnson - Blast". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  13. Steffen Hung. "germancharts.com - Holly Johnson - Blast". Germancharts.de. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  14. "Hit Parade Italia - ALBUM 1989". Hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  15. Steffen Hung. "Holly Johnson - Blast". charts.nz. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  16. Steffen Hung. "Holly Johnson - Blast". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  17. Steffen Hung. "Holly Johnson - Blast". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  18. Steffen Hung. "Holly Johnson - Blast". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  19. "holly-johnson | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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