It’s neon-hued, incredibly perky and utterly brazen in its desire to be hugely commercially successful: they performed it on Top of the Pops wearing T-shirts that read Number One. If any song embodies what infuriated people about Wham!, Wake Me Up … is it. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (1984) A gorgeous, heartfelt, harmony-laden but schmaltz-free ballad, it comes with a hint of darkness lurking in the background, as well as what appears to be a reference to Michael’s well-publicised troubles: “I went a little crazy / God knows they can see the child.” 24. Inevitably overshadowed by Last Christmas, 2011’s December Song deserves to be better known. George Michael – December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas) (2011)
A great version on Michael’s final album, Symphonica, strips away the synths and replaces them with choral backing vocals and a southern soul organ, revealing the song’s musical roots. George Michael – One More Try (1987)įaith offered an embarrassment of songwriting riches, including the pained balladry of One More Try. Sometimes, the contents of Patience sounded a little too obviously like the work of someone who smoked an enormous quantity of weed, but My Mother Had a Brother – which retold the story of Michael’s closeted gay uncle, who killed himself on the day the singer was born – is tender and yet incredibly powerful. George Michael – My Mother Had a Brother (2004)
Wham! rightly had a regard for Blue: it turned up on greatest hits album The Final. Photograph: Mike Maloney/Shutterstockīlue started life as an unfinished near-instrumental hastily bunged on the B-side of Club Tropicana, and gradually developed on stage into a classy, blue-eyed R&B slow jam far better than a lot of songs on their debut album, Fantastic.
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