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From the today's news: Wham!'s "Last Christmas" has become the UK's Christmas number one for a second consecutive year. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's festive classic beat songs by Mariah Carey, Gracie Abrams, Tom Grennan and Ariana Grande to top the chart.
This is something that British people do that Americans think makes no sense. British people get excited about the top Christmas song of the year.
It is the 40th anniversary of this song. "Last Christmas" was release on December 3, 1984.
I was sixteen years old when this song came out. (I'm 56 years old now. See how that works?) Wham!'s song "Careless Whisper" was at the top of the chart at the time.
What we know now but what we didn't know at the time was that George Michael was gay. That fact was held as a secret at the time. We didn't find out that George Micheal was gay until years later. I don't know if Andrew Ridgeley, who, I assume, is still alive, is gay. There was always something a little off with Wham!'s songs. Wham!'s songs never made sense coming from a pair of heterosexual guys. Wham!'s songs, however, made perfect sense coming from a gay man.
Rest in peace, George Michael.
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