Warriors of the Wasteland Warriors of the Wasteland "Warriors of the Wasteland" is the sixth single from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released on 10 November 1986. It was taken from the album "Liverpool". Having already referenced literary heavyweights such as Coleridge in "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" and Thomas in "Rage Hard", for "Warriors of the Wasteland" Holly Johnson turned to T. S. Eliot for inspiration. Johnson cited Eliot's "The Waste Land" poem, the 1981 Mel Gibson film, "Mad Max 2", and the 1979 film, "The Warriors" as inspirations. Even though it featured 3 different 12" singles, "Warriors of the Wasteland" reached number 19 in
Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) sugar cube and several dashes of bitters be added to the glass prior to the main ingredients. The cocktail is milky in appearance on account of the spontaneous emulsification of the absinthe (or substitute), and bubbly, which it takes from the Champagne. After the first sip, however, it becomes significantly less bubbly. Harold McGee, dining and wine writer for "The New York Times", said that it "seemed a waste of effervescence" (though substituting Pernod for the absinthe). Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, is a cocktail made up of