Over 20 years ago I bought one of the best 12'' records ever made, Rage Hard by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Did not play it for more than the last 10 years I guess, always knowing that a Bowie-cover was on the B-side and also knowing that the title had "suffer in the city" between brackets but never noticed that the title was Sufferagette City instead of Suffragette City.

So you people with English as the first language, what's your explanation for the two different titles? (yes I know what suffering means )

Here are two uploads for those who don't have heard the version, yes the record is damaged a lot, I left it in a pub for many years.


(only ten downloads)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0E873ZUX




I see here that Sufferagette is used more timeshttp://www.network54.com/Forum/8980/thread/1204990218/Sufferagette+City+by+BAD

Wikipedia says: "From the Latin suffragium, meaning "voting tablet", and figuratively "right to vote", and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes." I think you find a pastern bone somewhere on a horse. The Victorians who created the movement liked snobbish, Latinate terms. Has nothing to do with suffering. Call it an honest mistake.

It was definitely murder - but was it art?

Call it an honest mistake


I think you are right

It's just a "play on words". The masterminds behind ZTT records were good with wordplay.

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Yeah, it's a just a bad pun on suffragette.