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

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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. The debut record to be released by the band was "Wham Rap!" in June 1982. It was a double A-side including the Social Mix and the Unsocial Mix. The record was not playlisted by BBC Radio 1 in the UK, partly because of the profanity in the Unsocial Mix. The song charted at only No. 105. [15] Harris, John (19 September 2008). "Sentenced to a lifetime of stress". theguardian.com . Retrieved 11 January 2017. 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.

a b "Kent Music Report – National Top 100 Singles for 1983". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 22 January 2023– via Imgur.com. Wham! – The Three Crowns". The Three Crowns – Traditional Pub Located in Bushey Heath, UK . Retrieved 21 June 2020. There was attention-stoking controversy in the shape of I Want Your Sex (anyone looking for evidence of how times have changed might alight on the fact that in 1987, not only was its video banned, some TV and radio presenters refused to even mention the song’s title). But what looks like an energetic and polished TV appearance was actually a huge turning point for the devastated stars, whose single 'Young Guns' had failed to make any waves in the UK charts.The week that "Young Guns" peaked at #3, the #2 record that week was "Mirror Man" by the Human League and at #1 was "Beat Surrender" by the Jam... Beaumont, Mark (26 December 2016). "George Michael Obituary: 1963-2016". NME . Retrieved 16 June 2019. Wham! reunion rumours quashed by George Michael". ITV News. 20 June 2012 . Retrieved 29 December 2012. 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. Offiziellecharts.de – Wham! – Young Guns (Go for It)" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 6 March 2016.

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! Rettenmund, Matthew (15 October 1996). Totally awesome 80s. St. Martin's Press. pp.60–. ISBN 978-0-312-14436-4 . Retrieved 6 May 2011. Sibbles, Emma (18 June 2009). "Get it off your chest: The slogan T-shirt has a noble history". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 June 2019. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 5th 1983, Wham! performed "Young Guns (Go for It!)" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...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. Steele, Robert Careless Whispers: The Life & Career of George Michael Omnibus Press, 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2016. 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.

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. Teenage George, who at the time was a part-time DJ by night and a cinema attendant by day, seemed like he'd performing for years as he sang 'Wham Rap' and 'Young Guns' on TV for the first time. As with Wham!, you occasionally get the feeling that the still publicly closeted Michael was trying to alert fans to the truth about his sexuality: “I think there’s something you should know, I think it’s time I stopped the show, there’s something deep inside of me, there’s someone I forgot to be,” offers Freedom! ’90. Now signed to Epic Records, except in the US and a few other countries on Epic's sister label Columbia Records, Wham! returned in 1984 with a new album and an updated pop image. These changes helped to propel Wham!'s next single, " Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", into the top ten of several countries around the world. It became their first US and UK No. 1 single, accompanied by a video of the duo with Pepsi and Shirlie, all wearing Katharine Hamnett T-shirts with the slogans "CHOOSE LIFE" and "GO GO". [22]

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George Michael wrote the song about a teenage boy's worry that his best friend was getting too committed to a girl when he should have been enjoying his youth and the single life. It featured a middle eight aside in which the girl conversely tried to get her boyfriend to ditch the best friend, prompting a vocal battle, akin to a tug of war, between the girlfriend and the best friend, which prompted the 'go for it' aspect of the song, as featured in the title. 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 ]