Wham (George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley) - The Best Of Wham (1997) [FLAC|Lossless]<Pop>

Wham! британский дуэт основанный в 1981 г. Джорджом Майклом и Эндрю Риджли.

Wham!

Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a British duo formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK because of a naming conflict with another band.

Michael and Ridgeley met at Bushey Meads School in Bushey near Watford, England, UK. At first, they performed in a short-lived ska band called The Executive, alongside two of their former school friends Paul Atkey and Mike Murphy. When this group split, Michael and Ridgeley formed a duo called Wham! and went on to sign with Innervision Records. The duo later sued Innervision to be released from their contract. The group then signed with CBS, Columbia Records in the United States and Canada and Epic Records for the rest of the world.

Michael took on the majority of roles and responsibilities within the band— composer, singer, producer, and occasional instrumentalist— but the contribution of Ridgeley as the group's image specialist and spokesman was crucial to the band's initial success [1]. Ridgeley convinced a reluctant George Michael that Wham! needed to change their image and sound frequently, from the leather-clad moody singers of "Bad Boys" and "Young Guns (Go For It!)" to the more fashionable pop superstars of "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go."

Still teenagers, they promoted themselves as hedonistic youngsters, proud to live a carefree life without work or commitment. This was reflected in their earliest singles which, part-parody, part-social comment, briefly earned Wham! a reputation as a dance protest group [2].

The debut record to be released by the band was "Wham Rap!" in June 1982. It was one of the first ever singles by a British group to include rapping and was a double-A side with a Social Mix and Anti-Social Mix. The record was not playlisted by BBC Radio 1 in the UK, partly because of the profanity in the Anti-Social Mix. Subsequently the reissued UK release replaced the controversial lines in the first verse "B1, B2, make a claim sign your name’s all you have to do" and the opening two phrases of the second verse citing "Mr. Average". Additionally two videos were recorded for each set of lyrics. In 1983 on the UK pop show, Channel 4's The Tube, Wham! performed live the original song in full complete with the B1,B2 lines. This version was considered far better and was later released in the UK as the U.S Remix. Wham! Rap did not chart for the group but in October 1982, their song "Young Guns (Go For It!)" was issued. The song was an appeal from one youthful lad to his friend to not throw his life away so early on marriage. It also stalled outside the UK Top 40 but then Wham! got lucky when Top of the Pops scheduled them. An important weekly BBC chart show on television, it had to look outside the Top 40 to fill a gap created by an act which had pulled out of recording. Nearest to the 40 mark and still climbing, Wham! was summoned, and a phenomenon immediately began. The Top of the Pops performance of Young Guns is still considered a great moment in the group's history - critical acclaim is given for the 'nightclub' feel of the dance routine by all four of the group.

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Wham! - Club Tropicana.wav      Peak level 96.8 %      Track quality 100.0 %      Test CRC 48CACC22      Copy CRC 48CACC22      Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [43A50924]      Copy OK Track  5      Filename C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents\EAC Rips\05. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go  [1984 version  3_51].wav      Peak level 94.9 %      Track quality 99.9 %      Test CRC 5C76DC32      Copy CRC 5C76DC32      Track not present in AccurateRip database      Copy OK Track  6      Filename C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents\EAC Rips\06. Wham! - Like A Baby.wav      Peak level 98.3 %      Track quality 100.0 %      Test CRC D02275EF      Copy CRC D02275EF      Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [5A21A4A6]      Copy OK Track  7      Filename C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents\EAC Rips\07. 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----------------------- DON'T MODIFY THIS FILE ----------------------- PERFORMER: auCDtect Task Manager, ver. 1.5.1RC2 build 1.5.1.3 Copyright (c) 2008-2010 y-soft. All rights reserved http://y-soft.org ANALYZER: auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2 Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved. FILE: 14. Wham! -  I'm Your Man '96.flac   Size: 32664559 Hash: 8EAE070D4DFBEF6563DC1338259C21A1 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: BC5982F96BF446B9AB71945E11C1E32E633DA9E0 FILE: 13. Wham! - Everything She Wants '97.flac   Size: 46957057 Hash: 51E93E065315CEAA4C2C182C8A1B0F48 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 99%   Signature: D2D427B39B3D61E324333A3FA6E5517B5DAF2E02 FILE: 12. Wham! - Where Did Your Heart Go .flac   Size: 42787372 Hash: 6A92B13D4FCF0CA8A9FD4A693CE2E832 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: D633B851E7A3A7E8A5BD6FC8D582CDE9995CEE58 FILE: 11. Wham! -  Last Christmas.flac   Size: 50817980 Hash: D9DA4E4B95C20131C31601D036664559 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: D3AD7B47DD211603757497EF3CAAE991D8C89DB4 FILE: 10. Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It!).flac   Size: 26199105 Hash: 2B3E96EA72FE940325D46DDDAE458600 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: C3AFA53EEC19A50E6B98DFD0CBDB415245F90D90 FILE: 09. Wham! - Wham Rap!.flac   Size: 52278292 Hash: 7F4412D4CF3CDC9BDFBEAB4A25D6BC14 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 0308B8D9BE7A34CCED6D135B553BC548955155B9 FILE: 08. Wham! - The Edge of Heaven.flac   Size: 35304487 Hash: 157FC86A43760A1CEAE1A7616A5F2488 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 36F86E3D6A71AD99D8CAD62C329F8792541C0B9B FILE: 07. Wham! - Freedom.flac   Size: 41368783 Hash: F7C6431F01E00B7BAAAE2B73F70A81B5 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 936B73A2C6773EC92A2C49605646ECD28165994E FILE: 06. Wham! - Like A Baby.flac   Size: 26941207 Hash: D636F1BB761B4E595CD115896AE4D70C Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 00EBADA6ECCFBD74C0B4D1876526DE12B95C2997 FILE: 05. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.flac   Size: 29776877 Hash: A7AA9E3FF45024E2E2D40193C5064DEB Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: C848C8CE6B0474EF2839B2BBE8EFAF5214324706 FILE: 04. Wham! - Club Tropicana.flac   Size: 33578260 Hash: 173E83F64539925EBA20B32119A0593B Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 719584518191F4C10991D3113A96700071E61959 FILE: 03. Wham! - Everything She Wants.flac   Size: 47339730 Hash: 85CA5F3F966859AE19DF9FB374C7C544 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: BF325EC11AC5A5C5955B321A54A1176F60E4A3A4 FILE: 02. Wham! -  I'm Your Man.flac   Size: 30618679 Hash: DA2036A8DEF677255B4298498D8512D9 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 58112D3D62A472E41C125041131E7B583C123BDF FILE: 01. Wham! - If You Were There.flac   Size: 26873879 Hash: 3F498D292C911C01AD0CEF87DEEBC743 Accuracy: -m0   Conclusion: CDDA 100%   Signature: 8E34CE2442465E680DFD0A9169F99C834F4829C3