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@xango,

Good afternoon in Florida. 😎🎈😘I hope you are healing well. Wishing you and hubby
a nice Saturday. I hope you are able to have a little fun.

How is the family in Brazil? I wonder is it warm or full of snow I still think it is beautiful no
matter what type of weather they are having. 🎈😎

Stay warm and heal my friend. 😘😉

@loaf,

Good day in Ohio Loaf here is to a nice Saturday and I am so glad your husband is doing
well after his medical treatment. I hope you are having a wonderful holiday. 😘🎈😎

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Today, we celebrate the 39th anniversary of the song “Last Christmas”. This song, was written and produced by George, released on December 3, 1984. Described as a “high mid-80’s synthpop songcraft “, “Last Christmas” spent five consecutive weeks at number two in the UK Singles Chart. It failed to reach the top of the UK charts, solidy occupied by “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, of Band Aid, a super group put together by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds to fight food shortages in Ethiopia. It’s needed to remember that, just like Bob Geldof’s song, the proceeds of “Last Christmas” were completely donated to the associations that fought the famine in Ethiopia. Thanks to the undisputed success, “Last Christmas” had for many years held the record as the highest-selling single never to top the charts, by the Official Charts Company. In 2019, a movie, called “Last Christmas”, was released. A romantic and movie comedy inspired by the homonymous song, features, “Last Christmas” song with other tracks from George and Wham!, including a previously unreleased George’s song called “This Is How (We Want You To Get High)”. I like to highlight how millions of fans never abbandoned the dream of seeing “Last Christmas” at the top of the charts. Thanks to the continues passages on the radio stations and in streaming platforms, and thanks to the excellent sales performance obtained by the soundtrack of that film, finally this dream came true! “Last Christmas” reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for the first time on January 3, 2021, 36 years after its original 1984 release. In doing so, the festive favorite song broke the record for the longest time! Well, now let’s find out together the hole story behing this song. The short story recalled by Andrew to The Mail on Sunday in 2017 helps us to understand. “Last Christmas” was written one Sunday afternoon in 1984 when George and Andrew were visiting George’s parents house, while his friend Andrew and his father were watching a football match on television. The relaxed atmosphere helped George to sneak into his old bedroom without being noticed. He returned downstairs after about an hour, with the excited expression of someone who has just discovered a gold mine! He dragged Andrew to his room, a room where the two had spent hours as boys to listen to the radio and play the keyboard by George. Thus, George sat down at the keyboard and played the intro and melancholic chorus melody of “Last Christmas”, which Andrew called “a moment of wonder”. He also said “George had performed musical alchemy, distilling the essence of Christmas into music. Adding a lyric which told the tale of betrayed love was a masterstroke and, as he did so often, he touched hearts”. A moment of wonder that promised a great classic. And in fact, thinking of the Christmas classics this one by our Wham! it is one of the very first songs that come to mind! The song was recorded in August 1984, George wrote, produced and played every single instrument on the track! Now I will reveal you some curiosities. The song was recorded in the summer. Thus, George had plastered the whole studio in Christmas decorations to set the mood. The only other people in the studio were enginer Chris Porter and two assistants. According to the Porter, lyrically “you’ve got the happiness of the rhythm track, but against that you’ve got the sadness of the unrequited love”. And then “Last Christmas” shouldn’t have been released at Christmas. When George wrote this piece, the title was “Last Easter”. He would like to release it on the occasion of Easter 1985. But, Columbia Records, the band’s record company, insisted that Wham’s song under the Christmas tree. Thus, the song was entitled “Last Christmas” and released on December 1984. It achieved an overwhelming success, also helped by a beautiful and iconic music video, shot in November 1984, in Saa-Fee Switzerland. The story is based on a failed relationship and on finding yourself face to face, a year later, with your ex, who in the meantime has started another relationship. The video features George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley and the British model Kathy Hill, who played a brunette girl with whom the singer fell in love. The video also features Wham backing singers Pepsi and Shirlie, as well as Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp, Shirlie Holliman’s then boyfriend and future husband. We all can say that “Last Christmas” is a truly a fabulous and timeless song that will remain forever in the history of music. 💖

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