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Thread started 11/01/17 9:58am

JabarR74

The Wham! Family Thread

I know that everyone talks about George Michael (before and after he passed), but he wasn't the only one to spinoff from Wham!, you know. He gave others in the band a chance to shine, sure they weren't as successful as George was, but they still left their mark

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Reply #1 posted 11/01/17 10:08am

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Make It Big is a fantastic pop album.
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Reply #2 posted 11/01/17 12:52pm

Dilan

i love george michael

I'm feeling a bit fammy™
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Reply #3 posted 11/01/17 1:25pm

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Interesting thread--I really don't know anything about other band members.

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #4 posted 11/01/17 5:27pm

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MotownSubdivision said:

Make It Big is a fantastic pop album.

I just listened to it again last night on my Echo. It's a good blueprint for a pop album. "Credit Card Baby" is a favorite.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #5 posted 11/01/17 7:15pm

dancerella

Wham! Are amazing. They made some seriously funky, catchy pop music.
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Reply #6 posted 11/01/17 7:17pm

khill95

Just listened to Make It Big for the first time. Take away the daisy dukes and you have some seriously great pop. Everything She Wants is genius. Great haircuts too cool
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Reply #7 posted 11/01/17 8:54pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #8 posted 11/01/17 9:07pm

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Deon joined the band Brainstorm on their 2nd album (1978) as a bassist. He's doing lead vocals on this track


You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #9 posted 11/02/17 6:44am

jaawwnn

Pepsi and Shirlie were legit popstars for a brief period in UK and Ireland and prolly Europe. Deon Estus is a direct link from George Michael to Motown through his tutoring by James Jamerson, I always wondered if this was part of the reason George chose him (that and he's a fantastic bassist of course).

Fantastic is well underrated, very much a New Pop album without any of the punk hangover baggage. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up to the listener but there's a surprising amount going on in it. I find I have a hell of a lot more to say about it than Make it Big anyway.

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Reply #10 posted 11/02/17 7:47am

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TrivialPursuit said:



MotownSubdivision said:


Make It Big is a fantastic pop album.


I just listened to it again last night on my Echo. It's a good blueprint for a pop album. "Credit Card Baby" is a favorite.

It really is.

One of the reasons I consider MIB such a great album is its subject matter. That Wham! brand candy was wrapped in a bright, pastel-colored packaged that shone like the sun. When you make it past the gaudy packaging, take the wrapper off and actually try the candy, it's not the syrupy sweet confection you were led to believe...

You got songs about fidelity and trust as well as money-based and "friends with benefits" type relationships that go right over your head because of their upbeat, Motown-inspired production.
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Reply #11 posted 11/02/17 2:14pm

TheFman

1 name: Deon Estus

he made Wham! music what it was in the beginning!

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Reply #12 posted 11/03/17 2:26am

jaawwnn

TheFman said:

1 name: Deon Estus

he made Wham! music what it was in the beginning!


He wasn't there for their first couple of singles but he definitely added a lot to their sound when he joined.
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Reply #13 posted 11/03/17 8:10am

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jaawwnn said:

TheFman said:

1 name: Deon Estus

he made Wham! music what it was in the beginning!

He wasn't there for their first couple of singles but he definitely added a lot to their sound when he joined.

He was there on the first album already, mainly Club Tropicana is great stuff. The very first singles before the album he wasn't, as you wrote.

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Reply #14 posted 11/03/17 10:03am

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jaawwnn said:

He wasn't there for their first couple of singles but he definitely added a lot to their sound when he joined.

If you watch the Wham! Rap video, Deon is there at the "jet black guy" part. The "white cool cat" is Andrew's brother Paul Ridgeley. Paul was in their pre-Wham! ska band called The Executive. The 4th member of The Executive is David Mortimer, who does background vocals on Wham! Rap.

THE EXECUTIVE: Georgios Panayiotou, David Mortimer, Andrew Ridgeley & Andrew Leaver

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #15 posted 11/04/17 6:57am

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MickyDolenz said:

jaawwnn said:

He wasn't there for their first couple of singles but he definitely added a lot to their sound when he joined.

If you watch the Wham! Rap video, Deon is there at the "jet black guy" part. The "white cool cat" is Andrew's brother Paul Ridgeley. Paul was in their pre-Wham! ska band called The Executive. The 4th member of The Executive is David Mortimer, who does background vocals on Wham! Rap.

THE EXECUTIVE: Georgios Panayiotou, David Mortimer, Andrew Ridgeley & Andrew Leaver[youtube]BsyHQgiem8c[/yo

do you mean david austin thats david austin standing at the far left

I'm feeling a bit fammy™
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Reply #16 posted 11/04/17 9:41am

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Dilan said:

do you mean david austin thats david austin standing at the far left

Same guy, he used the name Mortimer as a stage name. If you read the Fantastic album credits it says Mortimer, not Austin.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #17 posted 11/04/17 3:58pm

Dilan

MickyDolenz said:

Dilan said:

do you mean david austin thats david austin standing at the far left

Same guy, he used the name Mortimer as a stage name. If you read the Fantastic album credits it says Mortimer, not Austin.

why

I'm feeling a bit fammy™
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Reply #18 posted 11/06/17 4:29pm

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Dilan said:

why

The Executive

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #19 posted 11/07/17 5:39am

jaawwnn

MickyDolenz said:



jaawwnn said:


He wasn't there for their first couple of singles but he definitely added a lot to their sound when he joined.

If you watch the Wham! Rap video, Deon is there at the "jet black guy" part. The "white cool cat" is Andrew's brother Paul Ridgeley. Paul was in their pre-Wham! ska band called The Executive. The 4th member of The Executive is David Mortimer, who does background vocals on Wham! Rap.


THE EXECUTIVE: Georgios Panayiotou, David Mortimer, Andrew Ridgeley & Andrew Leaver






The Wham! rap video was made in 1983 when the song was re released. I think his first appearance was for the Young Guns top of the pops appearance, although he wasn't on the recording of it.
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