Im Never Gonna Dance Again- George Michael
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| Unmarried by George Michael (most territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (United States) | ||||
| from the anthology Make Information technology Large | ||||
| Released | 24 July 1984 | |||
| Studio | Sarm West, London | |||
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| "Careless Whisper" on YouTube | ||||
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 Artwork for the US 7" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael. | ||||
"Careless Whisper" is a song by the English vocalizer George Michael. It was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley[4] of Wham! and was released on 24 July 1984 on the Wham! anthology Make Information technology Big.
The vocal features a prominent saxophone riff, and has been covered by a number of artists since its offset release. It was released as a single and became a huge commercial success around the globe. It reached number one in near 25 countries, selling most 6 1000000 copies worldwide—2 million of them in the United States.[5]
Background [edit]
Composition and writing [edit]
In 1981, Michael was working as a DJ in the Bel Air restaurant almost Bushey, Hertfordshire.[6] Michael explained in his autobiography, Blank, that he conceptualised "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. Michael wrote, "I was on my way to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote 'Careless Whisper'. I accept always written on buses, trains and in cars. It always happens on journeys... With 'Devil-may-care Whisper' I recollect exactly where it get-go came to me, where I came upward with the sax line... I retrieve I was handing the money over to the guy on the bus and I got this line, the sax line... I wrote it totally in my head. I worked on it for about three months in my head."[seven]
"When I was twelve, xiii, I used to take to chaperone my sister, who was two years older, to an ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. "At that place was a girl there with long blonde hair whose name was Jane. I was a fat boy in spectacles and I had a big crush on her - though I didn't stand a chance. My sister used to get and practice what she wanted when we got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this daughter Jane."[viii]
"A few years later, when I was sixteen, I had my start relationship with a girl called Helen," Michael continued.
Information technology had just started to cool off a flake when I discovered that the blonde daughter from Queensway had moved in simply around the corner from my school. She had moved in right next to where I used to stand and wait for my next-door neighbor, who used to give me a lift habitation from schoolhouse. And ane twenty-four hours I saw her walk down the path next to me and I thought – at present where did SHE come from? She didn't know it was me. It was a few years later and I looked a lot unlike. Then we played a schoolhouse disco with The Executive and she saw me singing and decided she fancied me. By this time she was that much older and a big buxom affair – and eventually I started seeing her. She invited me in one twenty-four hour period when I was waiting for my lift and I was ... in sky.[8]
Michael observed that after he stopped wearing glasses, he began getting invited to parties. "And the girl who didn't even see me when I was twelve invited me in," he noted.
So I went out with her for a couple of months but I didn't finish seeing Helen. I thought I was beingness smart – I had gone from being a total loser to existence a two-timer. And I remember my sisters used to requite me a hard time because they found out and they really liked the first girl. The whole idea of "Devil-may-care Whisper" was the first girl finding out about the second – which she never did. But I started another relationship with a daughter called Alexis without finishing the one with Jane. It all got a bit complicated. Jane found out about her and got rid of me ... The whole time I thought I was being absurd, being this two-timer, merely there really wasn't that much emotion involved. I did feel guilty about the first daughter – and I have seen her since – and the idea of the song was about her. "Careless Whisper" was united states of america dancing, because nosotros danced a lot, and the thought was – we are dancing ... but she knows ... and it's finished.[8]
Andrew Ridgeley came upwards with the chord sequence on his Fender Telecaster he had received for his 18th birthday.[nine] They continued to work together on the music and lyric both at Michael's house in Radlett, and Shirlie Holliman's aunt's basement flat in Peckham, where Ridgeley was living.[9] [10]
Demoing [edit]
The original demo was recorded by local music producer Paul Mex, in January 1982 alongside those for "Club Tropicana" and "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What Y'all Exercise)" in the front end room of Ridgeley's home (his parents' lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with Mex's TEAC 4-track Portastudio. Because most of the 24-hour interval was spent on Wham Rap!... and Ridgeley'southward female parent had returned domicile past that point, Careless Whisper had to be recorded in one have very quickly. It featured a Md Rhythm drum machine, an acoustic guitar (played by Ridgeley) and a bass guitar (played by Dave W), with Michael'south vocal (recorded with a microphone attached to a broom handle).[11] [12] The overall cost of the recording was £20 (largely due to the rental cost of the Portastudio) and the duo landed a deal with Innervision by Mark Dean on the strength of the demos.[13] [14]
A more complete and fully realised 2nd demo was recorded on 24 March 1982 at Halligan Ring Centre, Holloway, London with a backing band and a saxophone riff.[15] However, on the same day, Michael and Ridgely were called over by Dean to sign a contract in addition to the record deal, which they did at a nearby greasy spoon café. Michael recalls of that twenty-four hour period:
"Ane of the near incredible moments of my life was hearing 'Careless Whisper' demoed properly, with a band, a sax and everything. Information technology was ironic that we signed the contract with Mark [Dean] that day, the day I finally believed we had number-one textile. That same twenty-four hours we signed it all away. Only you tin never actually know what you are capable of, y'all can never really accept that foresight."[fifteen]
Product [edit]
The song went through at least two rounds of product. The first was during a trip Michael fabricated to Sheffield, Alabama, where he went to work with producer Jerry Wexler at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1983.[xvi] [17] Michael was unhappy with the original version produced by Wexler, and decided to re-record and produce the song himself; the second version was the one ultimately released as a unmarried.
After the backing rails and George'south song had been recorded, Wexler had booked the height saxophone histrion from Los Angeles to fly in and practise the solo.[18] "He arrived at eleven and should accept been gone by twelve", recalled Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell. "Instead, after ii hours, he was still there while everyone in the studio shuddered with embarrassment. He just couldn't play the opening riff the mode George wanted it, the fashion information technology had been on the demo. Merely that had been made ii years before by a friend of George's who lived round the corner and played sax for fun in the pub."[xviii]
While the saxophonist appeared to exist playing the part perfectly, Michael told him, "No, information technology's still not right, you see..." and he would lower his head to the talkback microphone and patiently hum the role to him still again. "It has to twitch upwards a little just there! Run across...? And non likewise much."[18]
Napier-Bong consulted with Wexler over Michael's dispute with the sax audio. "Is at that place really something George wants that'due south different from what the sax player is playing?" Napier-Bell asked.[18] "Definitely!" replied Wexler.
I've seen things like this earlier. There'south some tiny nuance that the sax player is somehow not getting right. Although you and I tin't hear what it is, it may be the very thing that volition brand the record a hit. The success of pop records is so imperceptible, so unbelievably unpredictable, we just tin can't have the risk of being impatient. But this sax player'south not going to go information technology, is he![18]
The version Wexler produced was released later in the year, every bit a (4:41) B-side "Special Version" on 12" in the Uk and Japan.
The tape label Innervision was going to put out the Wexler version of "Devil-may-care Whisper" later on the Order Fantastic Megamix every bit early as 1983. Song publisher Dick Leahy said that while he could not stop the release of the Club Fantastic Megamix, he could stop the release of this single on the basis that as a publisher they "have the right to grant the commencement license of the recording of a melody of which he controls the copyright". He was unable to do anything well-nigh the Lodge Fantastic Megamix because information technology was already released material. He said: "We knew how big that song could be, and so it was necessary to upset a few people to stop it."[nineteen] Towards the stop of 1983, Michael was too committed to touring with Wham! to promote Fantastic, so according to him it would not have made sense to release "Careless Whisper" every bit a solo unmarried in the middle of the bout, despite it being part of the setlist.[20]
Michael later went back to London's Sarm W's Studio 2 to re-record the rail, the backbone of which was washed with a live rhythm section in 1 take, with "loads of stuff bunged on [overdubbed] later" equally Michael added, although the feel of it was basically live.[21] [22] Michael elaborated on the song's production and how it turned out in the end:
"Jerry Wexler did one recording of "Devil-may-care Whisper" with me. Then we re-mixed that, which meant re-shooting the video and so we completely re-did the track virtually four weeks before information technology was due to be released. When we originally made it I was totally in awe of Jerry Wexler and it was the first time that I had ever felt similar that nigh anybody that I'd worked with. Normally I have trouble convincing myself that people know what they're doing. In this case I had to get drunk in order to sing, I was so nervous. Anyway, my publisher [Dick Leahy] and I had loads of discussions about whether the tape was skilful enough for the song and whether in that location was enough of me in information technology considering it just did not audio similar me. I said 'it's bang-up. Jerry's done a dandy job on information technology', and for the first time since we'd started I was blind to what was going on because the song was already two and a half years old and I just did not take a clue virtually where else I could take it. Eventually I just idea, 'sod this. I'thousand going to go in and do it every bit if it had never been done before with the musicians we unremarkably apply and see what happens.' The runway was much better considering I was relaxed and I retrieve that our musicians did a much ameliorate chore than the Muscle Shoals section". [22]
Co-ordinate to English jazz musician Dan Forshaw, saxophonist Steve Gregory had received a call to re-tape the song's distinctive solo; he was the eleventh saxophone player to record the solo, for Michael was determined to go the audio he wanted.[23] "Session musicians do non accept much idea what they are going to exist recording until they get in, and this was the case for Steve and another saxophonist who was ahead of him in the (queue)", Forshaw recalled.
As usual there was a lot of waiting effectually and the guy in front of Steve threw in the towel saying, 'it's but going to be some crappy B side anyway then I'm off'. Steve waited then discovered that the solo wasn't that piece of cake to play in the written cardinal, as his old Selmer Marking VI tenor didn't have a elevation F♯ cardinal. So, the engineer slowed the tape down and then that Steve could record the solo a semitone lower than intended. Once the tape was put back to the normal speed, an 'unnatural' saxophone audio was created that sounded a fleck like an Alto in the Paul Desmond vibe, but lacking a bit more depth and darkness to the audio. George Michael had just arrived at the studio and said 'that's the one, that'southward the sax solo I want'. This could exist down to that whole 80s synth concept where sounds became increasingly 'manufactured', or merely that George never recognized it was 'wrong'.[23]
The officially released single was issued in August 1984, entering the UK Singles Nautical chart at number 12. Within two weeks it was at number one, ending a nine-week run at the height for "2 Tribes" past Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[iv] It stayed at number ane for iii weeks, going on to become the 5th all-time-selling single of 1984 in the Uk; outsold only by the two Frankie Goes to Hollywood tracks, "Two Tribes" and "Relax", Stevie Wonder with "I Just Called to Say I Love You", and Band Aid's "Exercise They Know It's Christmas?". The song too topped the charts in 25 other countries, including the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in February 1985 nether the credit "Wham! featuring George Michael". Spending three weeks at the top in America, the song was later named Billboard 'south number-one song of 1985. The song was #1 on the smooth radio top 500 songs of all time chart – proving its iconic condition.
Despite the success, Michael was never fond of the song. He said in 1991 that it "was non an integral function of my emotional development ... information technology disappoints me that you can write a lyric very flippantly—and not a particularly skillful lyric—and it can mean and then much to so many people. That's disillusioning for a writer."[19]
Music video [edit]
The official music video (which uses the shorter unmarried version instead of the total anthology version and was directed by Duncan Gibbins, who previously directed "Wake Me Upwardly Earlier You Become-Get") shows the guilt felt by a man (portrayed by Michael) over an affair, and his acknowledgement that his partner (Lisa Stahl) is going to find out. Madeline Andrews-Hodge plays the woman who lures George abroad. It was filmed on location in Miami, Florida, in February 1984[24] and features such locales every bit Coconut Grove and Watson Island. The concluding part of the video shows Michael leaning out of a top floor balustrade of Miami's Grove Towers.[25] [26]
A first original version of the video was edited with the Jerry Wexler 1983 version, and featured Andrew every bit a cameo, handing over a letter to a dark-haired George. This version had a more detailed storyline, but was and so re-edited later.[27]
According to producer Jon Roseman, production of the video was "A fucking disaster".[28] Co-ordinate to Michael's co-star Lisa Stahl, "They lost footage of our kissing scene so we had to reshoot it, which I didn't complain about ... And so George decided he didn't like his hair and so he flew his sister over from England to cut it and nosotros had to reshoot more scenes."[29]
Every bit the band felt they had "screwed up" the video, farther footage of Michael singing the song onstage was later shot at the Lyceum Theatre, London.[28] The video operation (1984 Version) was officially uploaded to George Michael YouTube channel on 24 October 2009. It has over 834 one thousand thousand views every bit of 2022.
Track listing [edit]
All tracks are written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| i. | "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Single Edit) | 5:04 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | 5:02 |
| No. | Championship | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | six:31 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | 5:02 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| one. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | six:20 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | iv:52 |
| No. | Championship | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" | 4:50 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" | 4:50 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | half dozen:31 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Jerry Wexler Special Version) | 5:34 |
| 3. | "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Condensed Instrumental Version) | iv:52 |
- Note: The Extended Mix is identical to the album version from Make It Large.
Credits and personnel [edit]
- George Michael – lead and backing vocals
- Andrew Ridgeley – acoustic guitar (uncredited)
- Steve Gregory – saxophone
- Deon Estus – bass
- Trevor Murrell – drums[nb ane]
- Chris Parren – keyboards
- Anne Dudley – keyboards [31]
- Hugh Burns – electric guitar
- Danny Cummings – percussion
Credits adapted from the Extended Mix'south liner notes.[32]
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Cover versions [edit]
"Careless Whisper" has been covered by many other artists. Among the most significant versions are:
- Sarah Washington on a dance version that peaked at number 45 on the United kingdom Singles Chart (1993).[91]
- 2Play produced a cover version in 2004. It charted at number 29 in the UK.[92]
- Kamasi Washington and El Debarge performed it to pay tribute to George Michael at the 2017 BET Awards.[93]
- Due south African culling rock ring Seether covered the vocal on their 2007 album Finding Dazzler in Negative Spaces. Information technology charted at number 63 in the US.[94]
- Dutch rapper Lil' Kleine sampled the chorus for his song, titled "Dansen", on his well-nigh recent album Ibiza Stories.[95]
Run into likewise [edit]
- List of best-selling singles in the United kingdom
- List of number-ane singles in Australia during the 1980s
- List of Dutch Top xl number-1 singles of 1984
- Listing of number-one singles of 1984 (Ireland)
- List of number-one hits of 1984 (Switzerland)
- List of number-one singles from the 1980s (Britain)
- List of RPM number-ane singles of 1985
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985 (U.S.)
- List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1985 (U.S.)
Notes [edit]
- ^ The proper name of Wham!'southward drummer was Trevor Murrell.[xxx] He is listed on the liner notes every bit Trevor Morrell.
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External links [edit]
- Careless Whisper canvas music PDF
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_Whisper
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