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Steele, Robert Careless Whispers: The Life & Career of George Michael Omnibus Press, 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2016. 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. 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.

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Beaumont, Mark (26 December 2016). "George Michael Obituary: 1963-2016". NME . Retrieved 16 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 George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They became one of the most commercially successful pop acts of the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. [5] Wham! - Last Christmas / Everything She Wants was released on 3-12-84 Reached #2 in the UK Charts until Jan 2021 (#1)

Wham! reunion rumours quashed by George Michael". ITV News. 20 June 2012 . Retrieved 29 December 2012. Kent Music Report – National Top 100 Singles for 1983". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 22 January 2023– via Imgur.com. In 1986, Wham! broke up. Michael was keen to create music targeted at a more sophisticated adult market rather than the duo's primarily teenage audience. 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. As it turned out, those first impressions were wrong. Wham! were a noticeably smarter and more complex band than their brash front suggested. Wham Rap was a song not so much about indifference to unemployment as resilience in the face of it. 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.

Wham! was just outside the top 40 threshold of the UK Singles Chart before their Top of the Pops performance, 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.