Frankie Goes To Hollywood had already upset the Mary Whitehouse brigade with their naughty chart topper Relax when they followed it with this song.

Two Tribes ramped up Cold War paranoia and amplified it with Godley & Creme’s video of the US and Russian leaders wrestling in a ring – before leading us into mutually assured destruction.

At the time that seemed a very real threat, with US nukes (and female protestors) at Greenham Common and regular threats of war being exchanged between the superpowers.

The intro to both song and video is taken directly from the government’s official ‘Protect and Survive’ public service broadcast – meant to be shown in the event of imminent nuclear attack.

And if that wasn’t provocative enough, the song came accompanied by a video (directed by ex-10CC stars, Godley & Creme) which showed lookalikes of US president Ronald Reagan and USSR president Konstantin Chernenko duking it out in a bare-knuckle arena.

Produced by Trevor Horn, the song blends a funky bassline representing America with elements of Russian classical music to emphasise the culture clash and a still-relevant line about “working for the black gas” – the oil at the centre of many a global conflict.

Not to mention the line about “living in a world where sex and horror are the new gods.” All the more apt as the song came back to me last night while watching the horror movie MaXXXine whose soundtrack of mid-Eighties bangers includes Frankie’s Welcome To The Pleasuredome.

I’ve got the 12-inch somewhere in my collection, featuring impressions of Reagan, Hitler and Fidel Castro.