The Wham! singer was inspired while watching sports, his former bandmate Andrew Ridgeley writes in a new memoir, as the composer of a new film that borrows the song's title reflects on its 'perfect juxtaposition of melancholy and hopefulness.'
Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael of Wham! released"Last Christmas" on Dec. 3, 1984.
In one eight-month period during the mid-1980s, the British duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, also known as the pop supergroup Wham!, made history twice: In April 1985 they were the first major Western pop act to visit Communist China , and in December 1984, they recorded their generation's most enduring holiday song, "Last Christmas."
It all started one afternoon in 1984, at Michael's parents' home. "As we watched football on the telly," Ridgeley writes in his new memoir,, Michael "was suddenly struck by inspiration" and dashed off to sketch out "a chorus and verse on his keyboard upstairs."
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