Disconnecting your worth from your salary, disconnecting your ‘manliness’ from your professional status, can still be a struggle has anyone ever done it with such glee, such generosity, such pop genius? AND they’re chanting “DHSS” in the chorus: it is sardonic, audacious, hilarious magic. It also has the most (and the most delightful) rhyming couplets ever packed into three-and-a-half minutes of pop glory. The most elegant, enjoyable and to-the-point takedown ever of why ‘hard-working families’, ‘benefit scroungers’ and the protestant work ethic are all concepts to be heartily rejected, this is a song that inherently, weightlessly understands that any society which demonises the skint, the jobless and the disenfranchised is a terrible terrible bullshit society. Here’s to George, and his big heart and his great great songwriting, and his beautiful smile and his lovely bum in those tight blue jeans. ![]() ![]() There’s a million words, but for now let’s take a look at six songs that are especially dear to my heart. What a rich joy to have a star who was there in your early dancing pop-loving days and whose music still gives pleasure and succour and love, decades later. ![]() Last new year’s eve, me and some friends had a brilliant house party which involved drunkenly singing Wham! songs in the garden and toasting the beloved memory of George, who had died a few days earlier, suddenly and far far too soon. There are a million words we could write about Wham! and George Michael - the man, the music, the fun we’ve had, the dancing, the sighing, the singing along.
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