[on.cc East Network News]The 1984 classic “Last Christmas”, composed and sung by the late British King George Michael, is one of the must-listen Christmas songs in music history every Christmas. Although the song has always been very popular, it has never managed to reach No. 1 on the British Christmas pop songs chart. This year, the song finally became a number one song. According to data, “Last Christmas” has been played 13.3 million times on streaming music platforms in the past seven days, making it the most played Christmas song during Christmas week. However, Simon Napier-Bell, manager of former group George Wham!, recently revealed that George had a love-hate relationship with the success of “Last Christmas” during his lifetime!
Simon Napier-Bell, who once made Wham! was popular until it ended in 1986, in an interview that the unprecedented success of “Last Christmas” was disgusting. He said that although George liked the song, he was also frustrated by its success. The reason is that George really wanted to have remembered as a great songwriter rather than writing a perfect Christmas song. Although he said that George loved and hated “Last Christmas”, he said bluntly that the song was very good: “It’s so difficult to create a song that mentions the word “Christmas” every three seconds, and on at the same time he doesn’t know how to do that. It feels old-fashioned.”
As for Wham!, another member, Andrew Ridgely, also mentioned the success of “Last Christmas” in a recent interview. He said that when he first listened to the demo of the song, he was already hooked and it sounded like a classic Christmas song that the world is singing, so he is not surprised that the song still has love her to this day. Although “Last Christmas” was created 40 years ago, it is still very popular. As well as being made into a film of the same name a few years ago, “Last Christmas”, “Deadpool” Ryan Reynolds Recently, he also took the opportunity to fake the “Last Christmas” album cover with his partner in the football team.
As well as “Last Christmas”, George Michael also took part in another classic Christmas song from the 1980s, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. The song was to raise money for the hungry people in Ethiopia in Africa. In addition to George singing, U2, Superstars such as Duran Duran, Boy George and Paul Young also participated in the vocals.
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