Young Guns (Go For It) - Wham 7" 45

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The song was the first of four socially and politically motivated hits from Wham!'s debut album Fantastic!. They went on to dominate the UK charts and have four #1 hits, before splitting at their height in 1986. A remix of the song was made in 1986, combining some of the Unsocial Mix with the album version. This version, entitled "Wham! Rap '86", was released on their American and Japanese album Music from the Edge of Heaven, and as the B-side on the 7-inch single " The Edge of Heaven" in the UK, Australia and Europe. An acclaimed appearance at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and an EP of covers aside, Michael more or less vanished for the next four years: when he reappeared, it was with Jesus to a Child, a shattered-sounding lament for Anselmo Feleppa, who had died in 1993 from an Aids-related brain haemorrhage. Though they were only together for a total of five years, Wham! went on to become one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1980s, selling over 30 million records worldwide. At the end of 1985, the US Billboard charts listed "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" as the number-three song and "Careless Whisper" as the number-one song of the year. [27] China (1985) [ edit ]

British director Lindsay Anderson was engaged to accompany Wham! to China and make a documentary film about the visit. Anderson called his one-hour and 18 minute film If You Were There. Wham!’s later hits increasingly tended towards irrepressible 60s soul pastiches: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Freedom, The Edge Of Heaven. A Different Corner was something else entirely: a sombre, fragile, drumless drift of a song with no hook-laden chorus. The fact that it went to No 1 perhaps said more about the degree of success Wham! were enjoying at the time – their farewell concert was in front of 72,000 people at Wembley Stadium – than its commerciality. No mean feat for a couple of lads from Bushey, Hertfordshire who started off just having a laugh writing songs together.It says something about the singularity of his talent that scores of artists have tried to follow it, and almost none of them has succeeded in quite the way he did. Michael was keen to create music targeted at a more sophisticated adult market rather than the duo's primarily teenage audience, and therefore, he and Ridgeley officially announced the break-up of Wham! in the spring of 1986. Before going their separate ways, a farewell single " The Edge of Heaven", and a greatest hits album titled The Final would be forthcoming, along with a farewell concert entitled The Final. Announcing the break-up, Michael said: "I think it should be the most amicable split in pop history." [33]

Initially the pair wrote songs such as " Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)" and " Club Tropicana" together, but part way through the recording of their debut album Fantastic, the pair agreed that Michael was the stronger songwriter, and would take creative control. [14] Still teenagers, they promoted themselves as hedonistic youngsters, proud to live a carefree life without work or commitment. This was reflected in their earliest singles which, part-parody, part-social comment, briefly earned Wham! a reputation as a dance protest group. Because of their Top Of The Pops performance promoting the single, it wasn't long before both George and Andrew joined the rich and famous themselves.Wham Rap!" was the first song written by Michael and Ridgeley following the breakup of their previous band, The Executive, but before they had officially formed (or named) Wham! The genesis of the song began in 1981 and was a result of Ridgeley making up his own words ("Wham! Bam! I am the man!") while dancing to " Rapper's Delight" with Michael and Shirley in Bogart's nightclub in South Harrow. [1] As they continued to work on the song an ultimatum to Michael from his father inspired the line "Get yourself a job or get out of this house". [2] a b "Kent Music Report – National Top 100 Singles for 1983". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 22 January 2023– via Imgur.com.