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Two new songs, "Golden Soul" and "Soul Boy", were written for the album but both were shelved as "neither of them were any good". [7] The album features a hidden track (played on a honky-tonk-style piano) after the final 20 seconds of "Young Guns (Go for It!)". In the US, the album was originally released as the group "WHAM!
The single was released three months after Wham! had begun proceedings to leave the label, and was disapproved of by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. The single, which consisted of a mix of the tracks "A Ray of Sunshine", "Love Machine" and "Come On" from the album Fantastic, reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.
George Michael's inspiration for the song was a scribbled note that his bandmate Andrew Ridgeley had left for his parents, intended to read "wake me up before you go" but with "up" accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote "go" twice on purpose. In 1984, Michael had this to say on the development of the song:
‘At that point in time, I really wanted to come out,’ late singer says in Netflix special
It should only contain pages that are Wham! songs or lists of Wham! songs, ... A Ray of Sunshine; W. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go; Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)
The first set saw the band play most of the hits from the Fantastic album before Michael was on stage alone singing songs like "Careless Whisper", a then-unreleased track. [2] The average set list was as follows: [7] "Young Guns (Go for It)" "Club Tropicana" "Blue" "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" "A Ray of Sunshine" Break "Careless Whisper ...
Manager Simon Napier-Bell wined and dined more than 140 government officials and campaigned against rivals Queen to make global pop history, even if George Michael later said Wham!'s Beijing ...
Come On (Wham! song) Cowboys and Angels (George Michael song) ... A Ray of Sunshine; Round Here (George Michael song) S. Shoot the Dog; Soul Free; Spinning the Wheel;