A hit machine, Wham took thirty-nine years to reach the top of the British hit parade at Christmas. Yet the song Last Christmas was written by George Michael, and performed by the singer and his partner Andrew Ridgeley, to settle at the top of the charts. But in 1984, the year it was released, it was the title Do They Know It’s Christmas by Band Aid, sung by several British artists, including George Michael, to raise funds to alleviate the famine in Africa, which had taken the first class of the ranking for the end of year holidays.
We therefore had to wait until 2023, reveals Official Chartsso that Last Christmas to top the British hit parade at Christmas time. Andrew Ridgeley was delighted with this success and had a thought for his friend George Michael, who died on December 25, 2016: “George would have been excited that we were finally number 1 at Christmas. Yoga [surnom de George Michael] said he wrote Last Christmas with the intention of being number 1 at Christmas. Mission accomplished ! »