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3 unusual facts about Relax!


Relax, Take It Easy

The song was also featured prominently in the movie Were the World Mine.

Stockbridge Village

Musician Paul Rutherford, a member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood (whose "Relax" and "Two Tribes" hits topped the UK charts in 1984), also grew up on the estate after moving there from an inner-city slum area during the 1960s.

Were the World Mine

The movie also features several songs used prominently in the film that were not included on the PS Classics soundtrack release, including "Relax, Take It Easy" by Mika, "The Magic Position" by Patrick Wolf and "Cock Star" by The Guts – sung by Tanner Cohen.


Auto-Train Corporation

A concept of Auto-Train Corporation founder Eugene K. Garfield, a former employee of the US Department of Transportation, the novel approach allowed families to relax en route and save the expense and unfamiliarity of a rental car on arrival.

Belita Woods

In 2001 she sang on four songs ("Scratched", "When Jack Met Jill", "Relax", "Tempovision") on French DJ/producer Étienne de Crécy's Tempovision album.

Bisbrooke

The Gate was run by Ruby D’Arcy from 1968 to 2012 and many a schoolboy from Uppingham School (Stephen Fry, Rick Stein, Jonathan Agnew, David Whitaker and Johnny Vaughan among them) has slipped across the fields from Uppingham to relax, away from their masters’ watchful gaze.

Brasil Animado

A couple of dogs called Stress and Relax leave in search for the Cariniana legalis, the oldest tree of Brazil.

Bunkyū

1862 (Bunkyū 2): The Bunkyū Reforms relax restrictions on daimyo which had been imposed by former Tairo Ii Naosuke in the Ansei era.

Cancer and nausea

Anticholinergic agents such as Scopolamine (Hyoscine) are used as anti emetics as they relax smooth muscle and reduce gastrointestinal secretions by blockade of muscarinic receptors.

Clayton Williams

During the campaign, Williams publicly made a joke likening rape to bad weather, having stated: "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it" (the statement had previously caused controversy amongst women's groups over the same statement by basketball coach Bob Knight, and caused WABC-TV weatherman Tex Antoine to be fired after saying that sentence, ironically, on a weather report after a story about a child rape).

Clint Miller

"Miller Time" was a play on his name that happened to invoke a popular 1970's advertising campaign slogan by the makers of Miller Beer, the Miller Brewing Company to indicate to the consumer that after a hard task at work or play that it was "Miller Time", a "..time to relax.."

Denis Crossan

Towards the end of his course at Beaconsfield he was asked to film a music video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood called "Relax", which was quickly followed by work for UB40, U2 and many others.

Kava culture

Nowadays, in the informal, social context Rotuman men commonly drink kava to relax, often while singing and dancing, and in some instances mix it with alcohol, evidence to its cultural shift in Rotuman society.

No3b

No Sleeves' songs featured in different media: "3seconds" and "Christmas Present" in the drama Men Dol: Ikemen Idol as insert songs, with "Relax!" as theme song.

North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Performance Festival

First produced in 2007, the Rock the Boat! series invites families to relax on the charming Manteo waterfront while UNCSA's conservatory-trained musicians perform aboard the Elizabeth II.

Peter Reveen

Samples from his self-hypnosis LPs, including Relax with Reveen, Study and Concentrate with Reveen, and Stop Smoking...Stop Overeating with Reveen, feature on some modern Electronic music, such as the Lemon Jelly track Nervous Tension, and Bonobo track Shadowtricks.

Relax Edition 2

Relax Edition 2 is the seventh studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Relax Edition 3

Relax Edition 3 is the eighth studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Relax Edition 4

Relax Edition 4 is the tenth studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Relax Edition 5

Relax Edition 5 is the thirteenth studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Reläxx

As well as the title song, which was changed from “Frankie Goes To Hollywood” to Mika’s song “Relax, Take It Easy”.

Rossiya Bank

As of 2006, its major shareholders were Yuriy Kovalchuk (30.4%), Dmitry Gorelov (12.58%), Nikolay Shamalov (12.58%), JSC Transoil CIS (9.54%), JSC Severstal Group (7.15%), JSC Accept (3.93%), JSC Relax (3.65%), "Assistance to Business Initiatives" Non-Commercial Enterprise (3.08%), Russian Federal Property Fund (2.93%).

Sam Stone

Writer Tanith Lee gave a quote for the back of the book which said : "A deceptively readable date with darkness – watch your step! This book is lit for the much more discerning chick (and cock) who likes to walk in the shadows. Relax with it, but be prepared for sudden jewels and little masterpieces – and the rug to be pulled from under your feet."

Shell theorem

On the other hand, if we relax the conditions, and require only that the field everywhere outside a spherically symmetric body is the same as the field from some point mass at the centre (of any mass), we allow a new class of solutions given by the Yukawa potential, of which the inverse square law is a special case.


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