Editing Liverpool (album) (section)

==Recording==
Johnson was distant from the band during the sessions and was unhappy about the album's focus on rock over dance.<ref name="Bradley-1988">{{Cite journal |last=Bradley |first=Lloyd |date=March 1988 |title=The final chapter? |url=https://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=664#page6 |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]}}</ref> [[Jill Sinclair]], Horn's wife and one of the ZTT founders, later alleged that Johnson had been uncooperative and absent for most of the sessions.<ref name="Bradley-1988" /> According to Nash, Johnson was preoccupied with the serious illness of Wolfgang Kuhle, then Johnson's boyfriend, but he did not tell the band.<ref name="Nasher">{{cite book |last=Nash |first=Brian |date=2012 |title=Nasher Says Relax |url=https://archive.org/details/nashersaysrelax0000nash |location=Liverpool |publisher=[[Reach plc|Trinity Mirror Media]] |pages=230–245 |isbn=9781906802981}}</ref> Johnson's distancing and disinterest came to the point that the band members concluded he was "finished and were in the market for a new singer".<ref name="Nasher"/> They invited [[Duran Duran]] singer [[Simon Le Bon]] but he declined, [[Pete Wylie]] was also approached, but Johnson eventually remained with the band and completed ''Liverpool''.<ref name="Nasher"/><ref name="Wright-2012">{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Jade |date=2012-11-06 |title=Ex-Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Brian 'Nasher' Nash reveals all in his new autobiography |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/music/ex-frankie-goes-hollywoods-brian-nasher-3328902 |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=[[Liverpool Echo]] |language=en}}</ref> The session studio recordings were made in Ibiza, Holland and London.<ref name="BBCReview">{{cite news |last=Lester |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Lester |date=2011 |title=Frankie Goes to Hollywood Liverpool Review |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mn9p/ |work=BBC |access-date=30 October 2023}}</ref>