Holly Johnson

Person · Open Library

Works

32

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1960-02-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

44,223

Total plays

314,438

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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,833x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,263x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,612x

4. Optical Constants of the Noble Metals

   · 1972 · cited 18,236x

5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

   · 2008 · cited 17,858x

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Quotes

• “I’m very lucky. I have terrific parents, but some kids have a really rotten time growing up and we should do all that we can to make their lives happier and more secure.”
• “You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.”
• “Showbiz is a very strange thing, I’ve got a love-hate relationship with that. In Liverpool your mates say, ‘You’re there, Holly, you’re there’ but they only see the end product, not what that entails.”
• “We are here to stir things up. Even people that hate us have to admit that we’ve already succeeded in doing that. Love Frankie or hate it - that’s what we want - a strong reaction.”
• “Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.”
• “Coming back doing interviews is weird. It’s like an actor who takes a year off and just goes home, settles down, does some gardening, wakes up in the morning, worries about what to have for breakfast, then suddenly you’re plonked back in the middle of it all.”

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Official website

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