Rage Hard 7" disc with the label details stamped into the naked vinyl, as opposed to a paper or printed label. Rage Hard "Rage Hard" is the fifth single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released on 25 August 1986. Having topped the charts around the world with "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" and its accompanying singles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood took off to Amsterdam to record the follow-up album, "Liverpool". Taking on a rockier edge, "Rage Hard" was the first single culled from the disc. The single's title came from the Dylan Thomas poem "Do not go gentle into that good
Rage Against the Machine in his own right. But where you're going to hear Rage Against the Machine is in Prophets of Rage." In May 2018, Wilk stated that "nothing would make him happier" if the band were to reunite, but stated "It’s just really a matter of getting us all on the same page". Inspired from early heavy metal instrumentation, hip hop acts such as Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys, punk rock such as the Sex Pistols and Fugazi, and Dutch crossover band Urban Dance Squad., Rage Against the Machine has been noted for its "fiercely polemical music, which brewed