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

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The song, which had been tentatively released in June 1982 when Wham! were unknown, failed to make any impact and was later re-issued in January 1983 after the duo had achieved their breakthrough with " Young Guns (Go for It!)". The single subsequently reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart, the second release of four hits from Wham!'s debut album Fantastic. Young Guns (Go for It)" (also listed as " Young Guns (Go for It!)" on some releases) is a song by English pop duo Wham! first released as a single in the UK by Innervision Records on 17 September 1982. [1] It was written and co-produced by George Michael, of the duo.

Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" is the debut single by English pop duo Wham! on Innervision Records, released in June 1982. It was written by Wham! members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. Michael and Ridgeley met at Bushey Meads School in Bushey near the town of Watford in Hertfordshire. The two at first performed in a short-lived ska band called The Executive, alongside former school friends David (Austin) Mortimer, Andrew Leaver, Tony Bywaters, Ian Bowden, Jamie Gould, Harry Tadayon and Paul Ridgeley. [9] When this group split, Michael and Andrew Ridgeley eventually formed Wham! Davis, S. (2012). 80s Chart-Toppers: Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story. Mainstream Publishing. p.264. ISBN 978-1-78057-411-0 . Retrieved 17 June 2019. Wham! (briefly known in the US as Wham! UK) were an English pop duo formed in Bushey in 1981. [3] [4] The duo consisted of singers George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were one of the most successful pop acts during the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. [5]

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Herbert, E. (2017). George Michael - The Life: 1963-2016: The Man, The Legend, The Music. John Blake Publishing. p.27. ISBN 978-1-78606-471-4 . Retrieved 17 June 2019. When George Michael performed with Wham! for the last time and said it was ‘most important day of my life’ Both George and Andrew look like they'd rather be elsewhere, trudging about the streets like zombies in their dressing gowns. Young Guns’ moved up the charts, but only as far as number 42. It hadn’t broken us into the all-important Top 40. While it was a huge step in the right direction, we were still in limbo. Just over five months later on August 14th, 1983 the duo would enter the Top 100 for the first time when "Bad Boys" debut at #90...

Joined on stage by bandmate Andrew Ridgeley and singers Dee C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman, George stunned the audience with the accomplished performance which eventually got them spotted by the producers of Top Of The Pops. But instead the promotional video riffs on the fact that they begrudgingly have to work, even though their daily life as pop stars isn't quite as boring or mundane as most jobs.In the final stages of editing, Anderson was dismissed [30] by Wham!'s management, the editing team quit, and the film was re-edited, renamed and released as Wham! in China: Foreign Skies. According to a 2006 interview with The Independent, [31] Andy Stephens, manager for Michael, said that the film [Anderson's version] was simply not good enough to be shown in public: "It's a dreadful film... It's 20 years old and it's rubbish. Why on earth should we allow it to be shown?", although after viewing it in 2008 critic and journalist John Harris described it as "a rich, poetic, panoramic portrait of China's strangeness to the eyes of outsiders". [32] Live Aid (1985) [ edit ] a b "Kent Music Report – National Top 100 Singles for 1983". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 22 January 2023– via Imgur.com.

Paul Kelbie, Scotland Correspondent (17 August 2012). "How Wham! made Lindsay Anderson see red in China". The Independent . Retrieved 11 December 2015. Wham! were just outside the top 40 threshold of the UK Singles Chart at the time they were invited to perform on Top of the Pops, which meant they had not climbed high enough in normal circumstances to get on the show, but they were recruited nonetheless as the highest-placed artists still climbing the charts from outside the top 40. Then the bottom seemed to drop out of our world. In week three of its release, the single dropped to number 52. Despite all the PAs we’d done and the acres of print that heralded us as ones to watch, it seemed like failure was staring us in the face. It was calamitous and George took it badly.And from the 'For What It's Worth' department; their "Club Fantastic Megamix" was their only non-Top 10 record of their eleven charted records, it peaked at #15... 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] Why George Michael's Wham! period is in need of a reappraisal". CBC Music. 28 December 2018 . Retrieved 3 August 2018.

It sounded like the start of an intriguing new chapter, but Michael’s musical legacy was already sealed years ago. His career showed that you could escape teen pop stardom with aplomb, or at least you could if you were Michael. 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. Within a year, the two teenagers from Bushey, Hertfordshire were competing with Duran Duran and Culture Club to be the biggest pop band in the UK and in 1983 Wham!'s debut album Fantastic shot to number one in the charts. 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.For several years after becoming a solo artist, Michael spoke negatively, in public, about his time with Wham!, partly because of the negativity of intense media coverage on Ridgeley. Michael complained of the constant pressure he felt, and he claimed that the duo had been mistreated financially. He also spoke disparagingly about some of the videos and songs from the Wham! repertoire, especially the video from "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", and the songs from Fantastic. However, his perspective on the era softened somewhat in the later years of his life. At his solo concerts he would still perform "I'm Your Man" and "Everything She Wants", the latter being one of the more critically acclaimed songs from the Wham! era. Tom from OregonI can't find anywhere where it says who dang the into and middle sections of this song in early rap / hip hop style. It sounds like Whodini.