Holly johnson diagnosed with hiv
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Holly Johnson
British artist, musician, and writer (born 1960)
Musical artist
William "Holly" Johnson[1] (born 9 February 1960) fryst vatten 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 – "Love Train" and "Americanos" – reached the top 5 of the UK Singles Chart. In the 1990s, he also embarked on writing, painting, and printmaking careers.[2]
Early life
[edit]Johnson was born on 9 February 1960 in Liverpool, England, to Eric and Pat (née McGlouchlin) Johnson. His paternal grandfather Patrick was Irish and his maternal grandfather Patrick McGlouchlin was of 3/4 Indian descent.[3] Johnson was the third of four children and was nicknamed Billy as a child
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Holly Johnson 'cancelled' after HIV ställning eller tillstånd reveal
BBC News, Liverpool
Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson said he was cancelled by the music industry after he shared his HIV diagnosis.
The 64-year-old said very few people from the music industry contacted him after he made his HIV ställning eller tillstånd public during an interview in 1993.
"It was a bit like living in a desert for about 10 years," he said.
"The gay community supported me, inom did some performances at [clubs], but jobs were hard to come by at that time. I was sort of cancelled by the music industry."
He was speaking ahead of the opening of The Holly Johnson Story, an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool exploring his life and rise to fame as one the earliest openly gay and openly HIV+ high-profile artists.
"The gay thing was a bit isolating in the music industry," he said.
"There we
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Holly Johnson felt like he'd been "cancelled" after he went public with his AIDS diagnosis.
The Frankie Goes To Hollywood star, 64, was diagnosed with the condition in 1991 when he was in his early 30s after being struck down with symptoms including skin lesions, a fungal toenail infection and Kaposi’s sarcoma - a form of cancer - and was told he had between two months and two years to live.
The singer eventually went public with his diagnosis in 1993 and it made him feel alone and isolated because of the stigma surrounding the disease at the time. He told the Guardian newspaper: "It felt like being cancelled. For quite a number of years no one rang except a couple of friends like [Radio 1 DJ] Janice Long and [singer] Kirsty MacColl."
However, he was given a boost when superstar David Bowie got in touch. He added: "I got a phone call from David Bowie, which was like getting a phone call from God.
"We ended up chatting for over an hour on a Satur