Well where shall I start...........Frank's first appearance on record was an interview with someone called Chris Sievey on a promotional 12" record for a computer game thingy called 'The Biz' on the ace ZX Spectrum! this interview also appeared on the game cassette. This had an effect on Frank and it then became Frank's ambition to become a superstar and appear on Top Of The Pop's.......I think!

Frank recorded a promotional cassette of some of his favorite songs, but he had to be careful not to let his mum find out so he started to convert his shed into his showbiz HQ. When the people at EMI listened to the tape they decided to give Frank his own label called Regal Zonophone to release his fantastic records on. The first was a re-recorded version of his Franks Firm Favorites promo cassette and it was renamed Frank Sidebottom sings Franks Firm Favorites EP. This was followed by various showbiz gig's and radio appearances. In December of 1985 Frank's second single called Oh Bilmey It's Christmas hit the shops it had a picture of Frank and Frank's new friend Little Frank on the cover and came in 7" and 12" versions................. which was fantastic and included cover versions and some songs written by Frank. More dates were planned and Frank was becoming a Superstar around Timperley where he lives and still his mum knew nothing of his double life! At this point Frank also started his fan club which was to become the best most tops fan club ever to come from Timperley. Frank and his band recorded his last single for Regal Zonophone in July 1986 which was his Sci-Fi EP which again had loads of tracks on it and came out on 3 formats this time including a shaped picture disc, which had a picture of Frank and Little Frank dressed as Batman and Robin and Frank also designed the covers for the 7" and 12".