"You make the sunshine brighter than Doris Day"... whoa. Would the kids today even get that reference?
WHAM!
Make It Big
(Columbia, 1984)
True fact: K records founder Calvin Johnson was the first seriously committed Wham! fan in the Northwest — he dressed like Wham!, stood up for Wham! in street fights and never dropped off to sleep without telling his bed-partner “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”. His contemporaries always thought it was a joke, but it wasn’t. He, and they were serious. Great fuckin’ tunes, man, great fuckin’ tunes. Impeccable proto-Miami Vice hair — formal on the cover, more casual on the inside. And what a prescient album title! They wrote on their shirts! They drove fast cars! They wore horrible fishnet gloves! They dated Princess Di! They took cocaine! In vast quantities! But who didn’t?! Features great party mix of “Wake Me Up...” segueing smoothly into “Everything She Wants” with a bass that seems to be almost singing along! Everything about Wham! reminds us of really effective plastic surgery.
Cost 46 cents. Bargain value 3, slip cover 0
2 comments:
I'll attest. Calvin Johnson, Olympia WA, 1983: all Wham! and no onions.
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Deborah Frost
Who was the first seriously committed Wham! fan in Outer Slobovia?
Fri at 7:41pm · Delete
Andrea Pavanello
Calvin?! hahaha!
Fri at 7:41pm · Delete
Everett True.
..um, I have it on good authority.... Good-ish euthority. I meant to amend that post to read Pacific Northwest, by the way
Fri at 7:42pm · Delete
Deborah Frost
Have authority provide documentation/ photographic evidence
Fri at 7:51pm · Delete
Everett True
...i wish...!!
Fri at 7:53pm · Delete
Bernard Langham
my favorite (and saddest) Wham story is the one about them not being able to pay the taxi fares back from record company parties celebrating all those number 1 hits...because they had the worst contract in the entire world under which they were paid a flat rate of £50/week.
Fri at 8:33pm · Delete
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