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| | indya.com Music - Album Review of Pop Hits |
 | | Although the term "pop" is an abbreviation for "popular" music, "pop" has usually been treated as a musical genre and, in turn, is the most significant segment of music in terms of share size through the years and will probably remain so. | | | Hence, music of most one-hit wonders of the world is "pop". | | | The basis of any pop record - whether it borrows its influences from rock, alternative, dance, rap, hip-hop or any other form of music - is accessibility with the clear intent that the sound reaches the widest possible listeners. |
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| | WHAM! : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | UK pop vocal duo: George Michael (b Yorgos Kyriatou Panayiotou, 26 Jun. '63, Finchley, N. London) and Andrew Ridgeley (b 26 Jan. '63, Bushey, Herts) Ridgeley also played guitar; Michael was the mastermind and songwriter; they became the acceptable face of conservative '80s UK pop: slick, debonair and massively successful. | | | Michael's solo 'Careless Whisper' was USA/UK no. 1 and he was lead voice on the Band Aid single '84; in '85 he received the first of two Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year awards and duetted with Elton John at Live Aid. | | | They were the first Western pop group to perform in China, leading to contentious video Under Foreign Skies. |
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| | George Michael - Current Biography Yearbook 1988 |
| | In addition, that year saw the release of their third and final album, Music From The Edge of Heaven, which included the hit singles "I'm Your Man" and "The Edge of Heaven." Michael wrote and produced most of the songs on the album and also played most of the instruments. | | | At the age of eleven, he began "listening intently" to the music of Elton John and the group known as Queen. | | | The scowls and leather jackets that had graced the cover of their first album were replaced by smiles, shorts, and suntans. |
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| | glbtq >> arts >> Michael, George |
| | In 1982 the duo won a contract with Innervision Records and, in the summer of 1982, released the album Fantastic, which became a hit in Britain. | | | In sharp contrast to Wham!'s "bubblegum pop" sound, Michael's first solo album, the Motown-inspired Faith (1987), featured songs with a much more soulful sound. | | | I used to dissect his records and obsess about song after song and it was the beginning of my love affair with pop." |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Ian And Sylvia |
| | The public reaction was scornful but high profile live events like the Atlanta Pop Festival and Festival Express 1970 received better response and so they were inspired to release an album. | | | Moving to MGM Records in 1967 they put out 'The Lovin' Sound' before being informed by Vanguard that they owed that label one more album. | | | As a means to explore this and other musical genres, the duo formed a free-form country-jazz instrumental experiment called The Great Speckled Bird which featured some of the hottest session players in the business - David Wilcox (guitar); Ben Keith (steel guitar), Jeff Gutcheon (piano), Jim Colegrove (bass) and N.D. Smart (drums). |
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| | WHAM! |
| | They ended 1984 with an appropriately timed Christmas song, with a portion of the song's royalties being donated by these two humanitarians to the African famine relief. | | | Take the first letter off of Wham's name, and you pretty much sum up the band's music. | | | Rap" and their 1985 hit "I'm Your Man." They were also capable of putting together a decent ballad, such as "A Different Corner" from their 1986 "Music From the Edge of Heaven" LP. |
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| | By the time Wham entered the studio to record its third album, Music From The Edge Of Heaven, Micheal essentially was Wham: not only did he write and produce the songs, he also played nearly all the instruments. | | | From a young age, Micheal evidenced a love of American pop and RandB, although by the time he reached his teens he was also drawn to dance music, ska and glam. | | | A label dispute over royalties ensued, however, and in 1984, Wham, left Innervision to sign with Sony’s Epic Records. |
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| | SPECIAL WHAM |
| | The duo allowed their royalties for that song to top up the millions raised by Band Aid, and the video of the love-triangle ski-ing holiday is shown plentifully every Christmas. | | | WORLD DOMINATING duo for all of the mid-decade who broke millions of hearts by shrewdly deciding to split at a peak in '86. | | | Michael, bare-chested and wearing cut off jeans and pumps, stood at the front while Ridgeley was sandwiched by the two ladies as they performed the trumpety, semi-rap piece of pop wonderment with some hilarious handclap/bent double/finger pointing choreography. |
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| | In Demand Entertainment // Talent Booking - Event Production - Entertainment Marketing |
| | Helping considerably, of course, was the singer's noticeable growth as both singer and songwriter since his earliest days in the pop duo Wham!--which began as a nondescript pop/dance group and quickly metamorphosed into a huge international hit machine. | | | Enough of a buzz was felt in American clubs to send the duo's 1983 debut album Fantastic into the top 100, despite the comparative mainstream failure of their earlier singles. | | | A final album hodgepodge of new and old singles, Music From The Edge Of Heaven, commemorated the duo's demise and made the top 10 that summer. |
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| | The Rise and Fall of Popular Music by Donald Clarke: Chapter 18 The Heat Death of Pop Music |
| | Yet in general the new pop songs of the 1960s would not stand on their own, for the Beatles had accomplished something else. | | | The songs were forgettable, but by now the pop charts were ignored by serious music fans anyway. | | | When he visited New Orleans, we got a pop video featuring a skinny young woman who had nothing to do with New Orleans and whose raucous female Mick Jagger imitation was filmed close-up with a fish-eye lens so that she appeared to fellate a bulbous microphone, itself unnecessary with today’s technology. |
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| | And We Danced - George Michael Profile |
| | By the end of the year he had released his solo album Faith and dominance of the Pop music world was soon complete. | | | He was frequently dismissed as a frivolous Pop musician. | | | By the end of the year it became Wham!'s first U.S. Pop #1 and provided the lead-in for the phenomenal success of their Make It Big album. |
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| | Andrew John Ridgeley Pop Biography: Wham!ography |
| | But it was Andrew who had the ability to get them to the top of the pop charts. | | | Charting at Number 2, The Final (UK title)/Edge of Heaven (USA title) was the group's last contribution to pop music, released in July 1986. | | | During the early 1980's many English bands were making waves with style combined with pop lyrics. |
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| | UK-Flava.com - Your Gateway To Music Online - UK Music Directory - Rock & Pop |
| | But with regulations beginning to relax, China is increasingly attracting some of pop musicâs biggest names, keen to tap into a burgeoning music market. | | | With bootlegging still rife in the country, legitimate record sales continue to be slow, but Chinese audience are no doubt enjoying the rare chance to glimpse Western pop idols for the very first time. | | | Still, with the Beijing Olympics only 4 years away, and with China keen to grasp the opportunity to showcase itself to the Western world, it would be no surprise to see a further influx of Western pop artists welcomed to China in the next few years. |
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| | The duo became an instant success when their debut album, Fantastic, hit No. 1 on the U.K. charts. | | | In 1986, after three albums, Michael left Wham for a solo career. | | | He and schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley formed Wham in 1982 after playing in various bands together. |
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| | Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAN |
| | GEORGE Michael quit pop music yesterday saying he was disappearing because he could not bear fame anymore. | | | GEORGE MICHAEL QUITS POP: He shuns fame to get back to musical roots | | | The singer, who wrote an anti-Iraq war song, added: "Nobody wants to hear about politics, or any kind of strong ideas in pop any more." |
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| | GMS: Father Figure |
| | George has always maintained that Stevie Wonder's vocal range was similar to his own, explaining his regular adaptations of the soul artist's songs. | | | FATHER FIGURE was performed on 'TOP OF THE POPS' on 14th January 1988. | | | This version was recorded by Capital Radio on 1st April 1987. |
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| | Searchalot Directory for Top/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/W |
| | San Francisco pop band playing hits from the 1960s - 1980s. | | | Celtic influenced, pop rock band from New York. | | | The sixties pop songwiter talks with Ronald Sklar of popentertainment.com about his new songwriting book. |
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| | 3hive: Pop Archives |
| | This is a band who, in the album credits, refers to drums as "boomkadittles" and bass and guitar as "thunderstick" and "lightenin' stick" respectively. | | | It’s not just that the guitar-driven power pop melodies are spare and infectious, nor that the emo-laden lyrics are repeated with mantra-like efficiency — it’s that the combination feels like a head-bobbing security blanket that we can wrap ourselves around all summer long. | | | The Insomniacs are another mod-influenced power pop trio who I turn to when I miss one of my favorite all-time bands, the early '90s British mod-influenced power pop trio Five Thirty. |
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| | Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
| | George's silky smooth voice and unrivalled songwriting seperated Wham from the rest of the brit pop groups of the early eighties. | | | The second disc is packed with flawless pop songs which vibrate with raw energy. | | | His follow up album Listen Without Prejudice was a declararion of his superior songwriting abilities and flawless voice. |
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| | USATODAY.com - George Michael's 'Amazing' rebound from mourning |
| | But there are some very unapologetic pop songs on this album. | | | We've lost a very important part of our musical landscape, which is great pop music written and performed by the same people. | | | Faith, his debut in the latter role, won the Grammy Award for best album of 1988. |
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| | Wham! |
| | Combining light soul music with slow, romantic ballads, they first hit the U.K. charts in the fall of 1982 with "Young Guns (Go for It)". | | | Shortly afterward, Michael released the funky first single off the album, Faith, "I Want Your Sex," which, bolstered by a sexy video, quickly soared to #2. | | | George Michael continued to perform, while Andrew Ridgeley has faded from the music scene. |
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| | Press 1998 |
| | His greatest hits album has been top of the UK album charts for the past month. | | | The most surprising aspect about this collection, aside from its sheer weight, is that despite George's lengthy reign atop the charts, there are still the occasional surprises, the songs that will be familiar to none but the hardcore collector. | | | The British star, who vowed four year ago never to produce records again for Sony Music, is working on three new tracks for the company, all of which are potential hit singles. |
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| | Ridgely, who apparently does have musical skills, released a grungey solo album in 1990 called "Son of Albert." Its single, "Red Dress," made it to #13 on the Australian pop charts. | | | Andrew John Ridgely: The Man and his Music launched an insane number of pop-ups, but it also delivered some answers. | | | -- did he contribute to it musically, or was he just there because a duo needs two people? |
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| | No Doubt News |
| | Someone has pillaged the "Tragic Kingdom." The red dress that pop singer Gwen Stefani wore on the cover of No Doubt's "Tragic Kingdom" album was stolen Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 11) from the history of Orange... | | | When No Doubt's bouncy ska hit "Just a Girl" popped up like a big yellow daisy on the otherwise gloomy grunge landscape of 1995, it seemed the band would... | | | A young and energetic Gwen Stefani moved into the music spotlight in 1987 as the sexy lead singer for the band No Doubt. |
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| | This date in musical history: June 26 |
| | In 1943, Canadian pop composer and lyricist Cliff Jones, in Toronto. | | | When they broke up in 1986, he began a highly successful solo career. | | | In 1955, Mick Jones of the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite. |
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| | Wham in general - Archive Music Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | There was something about their music that just made us girls get up and dance (and it still does!!). | | | Was Andrew Ridgley a fellow North Londoner and apparent guitarist of the posturing and air guitar school of playing. | | | It’s difficult looking back now to see how Wham managed to be successful at all. |
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| | Knitting Circle George Michael |
| | Speaking on Capital Radio's breakfast show Michael urged listeners to buy John Lennon's Imagine, solely to prevent 'this heinous piece of music' playing on the radio at the turn of the millennium. | | | Synopsis: "George Michael is one of the world's top pop music vocalists. | | | At the time of the release of Club Tropicana, (August, 1983), they changed their management to Simon Napier-Bell and Jazz Summers. |
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| | Playbill News: He's Your Man: George Michael Considering Wham! Stage Musical |
| | Pop star George Michael has been uttering some careless whispers about producing a new stage musical about Wham!, the blown-dry British music duo he headed in the '80s. | | | In recent seasons, London has seen several musicals which have exploited the catalogue of faded pop artists, including ABBA'a Mamma Mia, which has proved widely successful worldwide, and We Will Rock You, the Queen tuner that had lesser luck but is still spreading internationally. | | | Taboo, which recently had a brief run in New York, told the tale of pop singer Boy George, who wrote the score. |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music: Every day's Halloween for Slipknot |
| | Defining work: The Great Milenko enjoyed a media boost in 1997 when the album was banned by their own record label, Disney-owned Hollywood Records. | | | GWAR - Alien monsters' stated mission to "destroy humanity." Beheads effigies of annoying pop culture icons on stage, spews various fluids into the crowd at concerts. | | | Scary lyric: "I hate flowers and little birdies. |
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| | George Michael News July-September 2001 |
| | George was in attendance at Madonna's first UK concert in eight years according to " Madonna Holds Court In London " and " Queen of Pop's song for Guy. | | | In " MTV Holds A Winning Hand In Today's Music," it says: "Likewise, George Michael, an early video darling as half of the British dance-pop duo Wham!, continued to make videos, but refused to appear in them when his carefully crafted sexpot image undermined his real talents as a singer and songwriter. | | | Read about it in " My Music: Lifehouse." |
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| | George Michael News |
| | Gaters has posted the lyrics to "Freeek" in the message board. | | | " Pop Princess " starts out: "Separated at birth: George Michael and Princess Diana" and continues with a list of Princess Diana's musical favorites. | | | YOGfriend Angelo points us to " Freeek or Unique," an article on Pop Idol finalist Gareth Gates going head to head with George in the singles charts. |
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| | nbc13.com - Entertainment - George Michael To Retire From Music Industry |
| | Michael shot to fame as one half of the '80s pop duo "Wham." His first solo album, "Faith," was released in 1990 and spun off a number of hit singles. | | | This British quartet's casual dream pop melodies and poetic lyrics have brought it international stardom. | | | But his profile has slumped in the United States in the years since, thanks in part to a long-running dispute with Sony/Columbia, which was his label at the time. |
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| | VH1.com : George Michael : Pop Star George Michael Charged With Lewd Behavior |
| | Michael's musical career began as a teen-ager in the early '80s as half of the pop duo Wham!, which broke up in 1986. | | | He launched his hugely successful solo career in 1987 with the album Faith, which spawned such hits as "Faith" and "Father Figure" and sold 7 million copies. | | | However, Bridenthal said there was no comment from either Michael, his management or his label at this time. |
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| | 1988: China radio began broadcasting western pop music for the first time, ranging from Glenn Miller to Madonna. |
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| | Wham! (pop duo) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The success was instant and within a year they had released their classic debut single, | | | 1984 Make It Big #1 UK, #1 US Music From The Edge of Heaven #10 US The Final (compilation) #2 UK If You Were There (The Best of Wham) (compilation) #4 UK edit ] | | | was a pop duo which was formed by George Michael and his best friend |
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| | Christmas Video Round-Up |
| | Second thing I should let you know about the 80's pop-duo Wham!: it's a bitch shelving their records in an alphabetical system. | | | And what should I do with Careless Whisper, a record billed as Wham! | | | It was a marketing tool devised by some crafty record executives to artificially add excitement to any utterance of their name. |
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| | Wham! - The Best Of on DVD - MovieWeb |
| | Musical & Performing Arts, Pop Music, Music Video, Pop Music, Dance Music, 1980s | | | takes a comprehensive musical look at their illustrious career, and features their historical concert in China (the very first by a Western pop group) and their farewell concert at Wembley Stadium. | | | With their straightforward, infectious dance pop, members George Michael (who went on to become a very successful solo artist) and Andrew Ridgeley became two of the first Mtv bred superstars. |
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| | Did You Know - April '99 |
| | Stevie Wonder found himself in hot water at the Oscar ceremony for dedicating his award for best song to the then imprisoned African national congress leader Nelson Mandela. | | | Jimmy Sommerville, singer of Bronski Beat, announced his leaving due to exhaustion. | | | Rumours were being spread that the pop group POLICE were to split up for good, which was denied by the members themselves, but proved to be true in the end. |
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| | The Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions - 853. Sad Sad Sad (Jagger, Richards) |
| | The brass was arranged by the troupe Kick Horns and the quad brass sound of Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, Tim Sanders (all from Dave Gilmour's 1984 band) and Paul Spong who had appeared with pop duo Wham. | | | Sad Sad Sad was written by Mick Jagger with the assistance of Charlie Watts. | | | Horns were added which enabled parallels to be drawn with other Stones' garage tunes, Bitch, and Rocks Off. |
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| | In September of 1972 Bruce Allen and Sam Feldman of the Bruce Allen Talent Promotion agency heard the group and began to book dates for them. | | | This Vancouver-based group began as a duo, Ramon McGuire and Brian Smith, eventually named Applejack in 1972. |
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| | BRIT Awards • Artists • George Michael |
| | The twosome enjoyed teen adulation in the early 80's, providing a string of classic hits before the band split in 1986. | | | George Michael began his career as half of the pop duo Wham!. |
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| | indya.com Music - Profile of George Michael |
| | The duo became an instant hit when their debut album, Fantastic, raced to No. 1 on the UK charts. | | | British-born singer/songwriter George Michael started his career as a teen idol in the ’80s pop duo Wham and later metamorphosed into one of the most successful solo artists. | | | Through their four-year partnership in Wham, Michael and Ridgeley scored numerous hits, including their 1984 breakthrough Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Careless Whisper, Everything She Wants, Freedom and I'm Your Man. |
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| | DVD Wham! The Best of Wham! |
| | won the 1986 American Music Award for Favorite Duo Or Group - Pop/Rock Video.Other notable career highlights included the first-ever concert in China by a western pop group a | | | George Michael and Andrew Ridgely roseito fame in the early eighties as Wham! |
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