I remember watching this performance on American Bandstand when it first aired. I was a teenager and instantly fell in love with George Michael. I was a die hard fan. I'm so glad I was able to see him in concert years later. What a PHENOMENAL vocalist he was. Gone way too soon. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world and continue to RIP George Michael ⚘⚘⚘⚘🕊🕊🕊🕊

@marknewbold2583

10 ай бұрын

He'd have preferred me to you

@ilovegoodsax

10 ай бұрын

I also remember watching this episode of AB when it originally aired back in '83.

@atheistleopard7671

10 ай бұрын

a lot of people think i resemble him..........his voice was TOPS, only Elvis maybe was better..maybe...

@Dularr

10 ай бұрын

@@marknewbold2583 not at this point. He was full on bisexual. It was later that he fell in love.

@amyreynolds3619

9 ай бұрын

​@@marknewbold2583😅😂.Most people would prefer him to you. I sure do. 😊

George had it all - talent, looks, kindness and a great sense of humour. He was taken far too soon. 😔💔

@zapkvr

7 ай бұрын

Genuinely sad loss. He had so muc more to give.

@johncapunay7419

2 ай бұрын

That's true great artist

I love everything about this. Just friends having a good time enjoying their youth

@justinjennings9840

10 ай бұрын

Yes. It's the energy thats so intoxicatingly innocent and happy go lucky. It reminds me of my innocence lost when the world was a better place and hope sprung eternal.

So young here. Hard to believe George was gone too soon. His time here went so fast.

@almalada5312

11 ай бұрын

Too mucho.

@erinmeggik391

10 ай бұрын

Here today gone tomorrow

@barbaraturilli1050

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad I got to see him a few years before we lost him.

George was a genius..what a performance.👍

I remembered when this first Aired on America's Bandstands.. I was a pre-teen and I fell in love was Wham and was a true Fan... I knew they was going to be HUGE! I've LOVED GEORGE MICHAEL every since...He was a great singer, extremely talented and with out a doubt one of the most handsome men in entertainment.

@marknewbold2583

10 ай бұрын

He's not for you

@ChessmindedThinker

9 ай бұрын

Handsome isnt really the word. Pretty springs to mind. Hes wasnt like a young Sean Connery in his prime. More dyed hair, capped teeth and eyeliner.

Can’t think of a better pop group than Wham. Youthful, talented, bring a smile to your face and always backed up with tremendously written pop songs.

@sylvestercunningham2102

10 ай бұрын

Wow George was always a star . He never really needed Andrew. You are drawn to him ; can’t take your eyes off of him. Gone to soon. Miss you George 🥲❤️❤️❤️

George Michael was an exceptional rapper. I think people forget just how pioneering and edgy this music was in 1982. Wham were doing hip-hop! And it was, and remains, quite fantastic. The 1980s were incredible.

@jasfan8247

11 ай бұрын

He sure knew how to put rhyme to rhythm. They found the key to the vision Deborah Harry may have had when she did a solo album with Chic after "The Rapture" succes with Blondie. This "Grease-on-the-beach" concept also really worked well.

@SmartRobot-wc2fb

10 ай бұрын

​​@@jasfan8247Music-wise they had nothing to do with Blondie or Debbie Harry. Their main influences were Funk, Soul and R&B...and what Blondie does on "The Rapture" leans more towards Spoken Word than Rap...and Rap and Hip Hop is quite not the same by this time (1983)...

@jasfan8247

10 ай бұрын

@@SmartRobot-wc2fb True about Blondie-the band but Wham breathes Chic all over on Fantastic. And Debbie Harry did a soloalbum with Team-Chic. It's all hidden in the bass. Just bc Chic was out-of-fashion one time their sound is all over the 80's (with UK bands)

@marknewbold2583

10 ай бұрын

Lol rap was around long before this hamfisted attempt

@genewhitehead8262

10 ай бұрын

@@jasfan8247 Spot on about the Nile Rodgers/Chic influence. Artists like D-Train and others are referenced too; George clearly bathed himself in soul/funk/r&b, so that was to be expected. And his 'flow' is reminiscent of Harry's and other rap dance jams of the early eighties; not something that would register with Melle Mel or Rakim, lol, but it is rap in the broad sense.

That voice, that face, beautiful George ...

George Michael was so young and sweet , you just gotta love him 💖

This is amazing! I love it when the interviewer asks how old Andrew and George are! I remember when Wham! first started, I was in my first year at University and me and all my friends loved it! We used to rush down to the TV room really early on Top of the Pops night so we'd get a good view of the boys. Andrew wad always my favourite, he was so sweet, but George was lovely too and so talented, what a voice! Their dancing was incredible. So sad that George is gone, it's so hard to believe even now after almost 6 years. But darling Andrew's still with us, still so good looking and nice, and his book about him and George and the band is such a lovely read, and lovely pictures, too God bless both of you xxxxxxx

@11lobo1

9 ай бұрын

Dick Clark is a LEGEND. He handled that interview like the professional he was! ❤️

When they first appeared on totp uk we were hooked ..andrew was our favourite

I'm 51, so this was slap bang at the start of my teenage years, but I just didn't get it then. Now I do!

In 1979 I was 16. My older sister went to Europe after college and brought back the first Wham album. She said they were as big as Elvis back there. I was a huge fan from day 1. Loved every song on the album. Oh. I always had a crush on Andrew. ❤🎶❤️💃🎶

@jasfan8247

11 ай бұрын

Nice, just the numbers don't fit. First album "Fantastic" came out july '83.

When i'm feeling down, only certain songs can lift me up. I only need to hear the first 2 seconds of Wake me up before you go go, and i am already in a better place.

Just so mesmerising rewatching this performance again. George, Andrew, Dee and Shirley 🔥🔥🔥

They were all so adorable💗

Wow, this brings back such great memories. I remember watching this episode of American Bandstand . This was my first time seeing Wham, I’ve been a fan ever since. R.I.P George ❤.

George was better at rap than Kanye is

@haumea420

2 жыл бұрын

I know that’s right💯

@siranbabayan1203

10 ай бұрын

GOAT tweet 😂

@knownpleasures

10 ай бұрын

Agreed ! He could easily have been a professional rapper!

@mikewhite4560

10 ай бұрын

I'm BETTER at Rap. 😊

@DrLuke49

10 ай бұрын

George was better at rap than ANYONE on the scene today except for maybe Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eminem.

George was so talented. WOW! HE COULD DANCE REALLY WELL

Such a trip down memory lane! Changed my life forever Miss this man so much

George was a beautiful peacock the music strutted through his incredible body

Wonderful memories…who would have known then that George would have become one of the greatest songwriters in history.

I have never heard a more beautiful voice than that of George Michael . What a beautiful face and body. I am a,straight female, but the fact that he,was gay did not bother me. He was a dream to listen to and to watch.

The evolution of George Michael was spectacular. A Supernova

I'm sure there are many here who read Andrew Ridgeley's memoir and are re-watching these old Wham! videos with nostalgia, having remembered when they first aired. Wow, I'd forgotten what an energetic fun song and charismatic performance this was! But yikes, I cringed for Pepsi when Dick Clark said "You're covering up the prettiest one"!

@haumea420

Жыл бұрын

That wasn’t Pepsi. That was Dee C. Lee. Pepsi came way after this performance❤

@DaisyAnnabelle65

10 ай бұрын

He sure was Gorgeous! He had the most beautiful face and voice! ❤️

@annakisfaludinebaan

10 ай бұрын

I read it, but I didn't like it! Andy glosses over himself and writes about George as if he were a supporting character.

@yvonnemulder9038

9 ай бұрын

Andrew always covered George ztrue friendship

George Michael is very handsome and very young, he has a strong ability to compose music and has high musical attainments, George Michael is full of talent! We miss him so much! 💖💖💖😍💞💞💞💕💕❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏 George Michael is my favorite super star in my heart forever! 👍👍👍👏👏👏❤❤💕💞💞😍💖🎉

Absolute banger. Classic one of the best. Not played enough.

Those years music programs like this were live only on Saturdays !

@lorettarowell8486

2 жыл бұрын

yes, i remember getting up so happy on Saturdays knowing there was no school and i took my time eating breakfast , watched cartoons and then American Bandstand and Soul Train ... i miss those days !!

blast from the past . great performance from george , shirley , dc lee and andrew.

OMG! How I remember this! I was 17 and in love with GM.

@marknewbold2583

10 ай бұрын

If only you'd been a 45 year old lorry driver

I remember watching this as it was aired. I was going out of my mind excited. So fresh and fun it was.

I love the choreography, gosh they were good at everything ❤

What great memories! I love this❣️

I remember seeing them in 1985 in Concert at CNE

I remember walking into a record shop and there was a a row of 12”EP of this group called ‘Wham’! I thought they look interesting.Heard the record shop play the EP as I looked around the shop and I was hooked! Have loved them til the day he died!Wham then George…so many hits and memories.

This performance is what earned Wham! a place on the Sixteen Candles soundtrack.

I just ordered a Wham! concert t-shirt from 1985. I saw them twice that summer❤️❤️

Only just occurred to me. This has a total Nile Rogers guitar and production feel to it. George was an outstanding artist and producer. Happy to magpie other brilliant artists and invent a new cocktail. Imperious talent. Incredible to watch his confidence grow as his talent grew.

George Michael and others

@laminage

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who felt that way. I remember seeing this performance and thinking George is going to leave his partners behind and I was right.

Wow I remember actually watching this episode when I was a kid. Their music was not released in America yet so I had to pre-order their album

The firsth i saw him i was in love...

Shirley Holiman is also married to Martin Kemp formerly of Spandau Ballet whose probably best known for their Hit True. Martin also became an actor as Steve Owen on The UK Soap OperaEastenders which is now popular with US Fans.

@AdrianDeVore

10 ай бұрын

George Michael was their matchmaker.

@skerrc

10 ай бұрын

Dee C Lee was married to Paul Weller (TheJam and The Style Council )and had two kids.

Uk ruled at music from the 60s to the 90s.

Yog and Andy and the girls loving life 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🎶🎶🎶🎶💕💕💕

19 year old George Michael, so beautiful

I miss you George 😢

Even the host thought George was the prettiest one. He even said it the prettiest one is standing in front here ( covering Shirley)

@susancappaert742

6 жыл бұрын

The "host" was Dick Clark on "American Bandstand". Dick says "We're (referring to himself and George) blocking the prettiest one" referring to Shirley.

I'm in London. Great singing and dance routine.

I don't possess the adjectives! Thank you for this "Hot Tub Time Machine" moment.... RIP GM🙏 Taken from us far too soon.

Thank you for posting!

Wow love this blast from the past!!

I’ve just sent this to Diane amazing she was only 21 😮

Thank you so much !!!!

19 year old George!!

god just the talent,but also the loyalty, it was so obvious he didnt need anyone but himself but he brought his friends along for the ride

That presenter knows how to put his foot in it ...21 old lady just hanging in there !! And covering up the prettiest ...😮...

@rezyousuf4954

10 ай бұрын

My sentiments exactly!

@AdrianDeVore

10 ай бұрын

Dick Clark was known for putting his foot with his corny/sexist comments.

@LJ-ze6ro

10 ай бұрын

@@AdrianDeVore do you think he played along to it..knew what he was doing ...would never get away with it now days .

@AdrianDeVore

10 ай бұрын

@@LJ-ze6ro If he said this today, he would have no TV show.

@LJ-ze6ro

10 ай бұрын

@@AdrianDeVore would have or wouldn't have ?

George introduced the wrong song, the second is not young guns (go for it) but Wham Rap!

@atomeyes99

10 ай бұрын

surprised no one in the comments caught it before you did.

@ara-so3dj

10 ай бұрын

he was probably nervous

First time hearing this i just love it..They should have done more rap music 🎵🎶

George immer meine nummer 1💯❤️💋😘❤️‍🔥🎵🎶👑👍💘🥇🏆♾️

Wham was just amazing ahead of their times, rapping fantastic, they were so versatile you really couldn’t label their music innovative 😂

They were all very talented. It was Andrew Ridgeley that knew the guy that signed Wham! to their first record deal. Just think, if George never met Andrew there would never had been a Wham because George was shy he copied Andrew and acted like he was outgoing like Andrew. People seem to forget that.

I was hoping he would sing wake me up before you go go that’s the best song George Michael ever singed

I had the re-issued 'Wham! Rap' single that was re-recorded with new lyrics. Apparently Americans didn't get the "B1B2" references. I very distinctly remember having to tell my friends what "DHSS" meant, just as I had to tell them what 'UB40' meant, and why they called their first (and best) album "Signing Off.' Turning 12 in 1980 is perhaps the luckiest thing to come my way - the early to mid-Eighties were a magical, incredibly creative time.

@drdickvagesq

10 ай бұрын

American here, please explain. I've always wondered!

@awm8221

10 ай бұрын

​@@drdickvagesqDHSS Department of Housing & Social Security. While B1 B2 were Form IDs. The song was re-recorded to remove these references for international markets. Plus when first released in England, Wham Rap flopped. However after the success of Young Guns, they released it and it became a huge hit in UK too!.

@marknewbold2583

10 ай бұрын

@@drdickvagesq read a book, yankee

@Bella-fz9fy

10 ай бұрын

@@drdickvagesqUB40 and the Wham song all referenced unemployment benefits.

@sandrafaith

10 ай бұрын

@@awm8221 I had heard what DHSS meant (I'd swear my record album has this in it so I had to go look it up) but didn't know what B1B2 was. Thanks!

Please, I think not that Shirlie is prettier than Dee C Lee. Dee C Lee was STUNNING

@Tawadeb

10 ай бұрын

Yes she was gorg

That’s a great little bit of history right there. Neat.

Remember when i first saw them sing this song on Top of the pops UK . 1982 over here.

That energy is INFECTIOUS!

I've heard this song more times than I can count from watching Sixteen Candles. I never knew it was Wham until now.

How FUN ❤️❤️ I grew up w A.B. - NEVER SAW THIS ❤❤❤ Love !

Oh gosh, I loved him!

De Ce was just gorgeous …it’s too bad she left the band I really liked the look with De and Shirley

RIP George Michael (1963-2016).

I remember the first time I saw Wham , it was at club in So-Cal they had a large video screen and they played “ Wake me up before you go go” 😆😁

Wow I remember this. I liked wham I still have Fantastic on cassette. But it was definitely a youth thing I see why they broke up and George went solo. Maturity kicked in. But it’s still fantastic!

@sandrafaith

10 ай бұрын

I've got the record album! Actual vinyl! Sigh... such a great album, but you're absolutely right.

@iammidia5548

6 ай бұрын

Mature didn’t kick it. It was the plan all along to keep Wham a pop band high school act that would never age. Hence the transition with careless whispers which he wrote at 16. It was a carefully studied act. They had done their homework ❤

First time I have seen this, and I am amazed at just how young the really were! Amazing to think that they made hardly any money at all on their first few records and were in fact broke most of the time, still living at home with Mom and DAD as they made their first few albums! I see now why my parents steered me away from the music business and into the medical field. I am just six months older than GM and was experimenting with cassette tape recorders in my room, using my flute, and two guitars to write music and record songs. I was recording music and trying to do what he did in my bedroom after school. Drove my parents nuts. I was even in a Wrangler Star Search Contest and bombed because my 14 year old sister sang with me, and we had a hard time without experience on the stage singing in a bar for the first time. I was barely 19 when that happened. I gave up!! I stuck to singing at church and writing gospel songs. Now I am 60 and have lots of friends, and am loved and glad I did not take the same path GM did. I would rather have friends who love me, and have a relationship with Jesus Christ. It is better. RIP GM

George had a similar career arc as the careers of some boy band stars who later became music icons in their own right. Justin Timberlake, Harry Styles, etc

Classic ❤2023

I remember watching this show when it first broadcast (dating myself) but a friend of mine and I saw them 6month earlier in London and knew they would make it big.

Boy, this takes me back...

Most presenters of that era seemed to get paid just to embarrass themselves making really stupid and unnecessary comments (around the globe in any language, not just this one!)...

Wow. I don’t remember this. Great performance Wham!👍

This is great😊

I remember when we had good fun and everything was fine.

Do t you just love it.

I love Wham❤❤

Enjoyed that

George was apparently very generous and made sure his band mate was set for life after they slip up for his solo.

Wham was and is the baddest Duo.❤️⭐⭐⭐🙏

Fun attitude, lots of energy, great songs.... but for sure, the well rehearsed dance moves pushed them over the top ! Even lifting the "New Romantic" partner jives from the likes of Japan, Spandau and Duran to augment this live performance!

Genial Great

Wham ❤❤❤

*my favorite singer/artist(male) next to Elvis and Maynard(tool)* . . . Some people/pals/gal-pals say i look a lot like GM. Shht, I WISH!!!! lmao....

A song about being on the dole..epic 💃💃😅

Dick Clark : pure charm 🎉

@atomeyes99

10 ай бұрын

nope he was horrawful. everything about that clip was pure cringe. his comments about covering up the pretty one, the preamble before Wham performed. he was so bad.

Hala aşığım bu adamlara❤️❤️❤️❤️

Diane (Dee C Lee) was and is such a babe

Also Just Four Months earlier they made their TV Debut on Top Of The Pops which in no form way was a Ripoff of American Bandstand but it's The UK's Number One Music Show and if you did TOTP you had "arrived". Alot of US Stars appeared on the Show. The Jackson Five, The Jets, Nu Schooz. John Lennon did his First TV Solo Appeareance without The Beatles when he performed Instant Karma with The Plastic Ono Band, Arcadia (which was an outside Project Of Duran Duran), and Bananrama performed on The Show first as Backing Vocalists for Fun Boy 3 and now they celebrate their 40th Anniversary. Andrew Ridgeley is in a committed relationship with Keren Woodward. Also like so many UK Pop Groups Andrew & George met in School.

Shirlie looks like Paula Yates💕💕💕

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