Wham Dedication
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Did you need a little pick me up this fine Thursday morning? Well have I got just the song for you. Straight out of 1983, from Wham's first Album, this song Young Guns goes out to Rosemary and Ellen. I leave out last names to protect the innocent.
Circa 8th grade, Wham was like the best band ever, in the whole entire universe. Pictures of George Michael and Andrew Ridgley plastered my walls. Every issue of Teen Beat with their faces on the cover was mine. Not even my Dad's protests over George Michael's sexuality made me rethink my love for them. "Nuh uh Dad, gawd" So the ladies came over into the family room where Dad had set up a make shift studio consisting of 1 Boom Box playing a Wham Tape, 1 Cassette Deck recording our adventure, and several ladders with microphones attached. We sang our hearts out for 2 days and what was the product? Our very own karaoke style Wham mix. Painfully off key, but fun to make. This tape exists, somewhere in an attic in Connecticut. I'm sure I will hear it's torturous sounds again someday. In case this wasn't enough for you, and you need more WHAM!, check out Wham Rap, Club Tropicana, Edge of Heaven, and Everything She Wants.
In the meantime, I just sang along, loud, to this entire song. No, the dogs didn't howl and with our new house, not even the neighbors could hear me.
Labels: Wham
By AllBeehive Thursday, May 10, 2007
2 Comments:
If you really want to embarrass yourself, you need to find the text of the letter you guys wrote when they broke up. With every sentence using lyrics and song titles to fully express your anguish.
You had the tape at our 10 year reunion. Remember that Joy didn't have a tape deck at her loft so we all crammed into someone's car to listen to it, and I think you read the letter then too.
I'm keeping my embarrassing teen crush to myself, thank you very much.
Amy, I swear you have the best memory. I can now vaguely remember cramming into someone's car and listening to it. I love the fact that Rosemary has kept it for so many years.
Now about your crush...goodness I can't even remember back to 1999, much less 1989. I can start taking guess. Um Boy George, no no, Simon Le Bon, or I know...the guy from Simply Red!
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