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I felt the cry in his voice.
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I felt the cry.
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I felt the joy and I felt the pain.
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"My name is Georgios Kyriacos
Panayiotou" -
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that's how it's said. Wonderful.
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"Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.
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"To the outside world, I am and
always will be known as
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"something else, but it's not
my name. As a boy..."
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I haven't read this for ages.
I know.
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"As a boy, my biggest fear was what
my huge ambitions would stay just
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"out of reach of the child that
I saw in the mirror
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"so I created a man in
the image of a great friend
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"that the world could love
if they chose to.
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"Someone who could realise my dreams
and make me a star."
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APPLAUSE
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Basically we've been friends
since we were 12 years old,
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and, er, when we eventually got
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a recording contract, we didn't
see any reason to, er,
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to bring anyone else in.
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We thought the image would be very
good. Two friends, you know.
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Is it true that you were unemployed
before you were successful?
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Yeah, we were both on the dole.
Both on the dole.
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A friend of mine, Mark Dean,
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had just launched a label
called Innervision
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and he decided to sign his mum's
next-door neighbour.
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He was already struck by
George's star quality
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because when he'd signed
to Innervision, George went
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for holiday immediately in
Greece for two weeks
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but flew back in the middle of it
to get his hair cut!
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And Mark thought that was
so over the top and so superstarry.
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It was not a good deal.
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With young artists, one of
the things
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I say to them in that jubilant
moment when they sign their first
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contract is, "All you've done is
get into the casino.
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"You haven't even started playing
the tables."
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The actual demo tape that got us
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the contract was about four minutes
long, and, er,
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it was just... We did it
for £20 in Andrew's front room.
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I first met George when he was
an unknown teenager.
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Erm, I met him at a small
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gay disco above a pub by Manor House
Tube Station in North London.
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He was a great dancer.
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He'd just sing along to all
the songs
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with a very good voice.
I remember him telling me,
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"One day I'm gonna be a pop star."
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I thought to myself, "Well, maybe."
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# Wham! Bam!
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# I am a man!
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# Job or no job
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# You can't tell me that I'm not #
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Two cute, gorgeous bubbly boys
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and those voices together,
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the harmonies.
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They were box-fresh,
minty clean, wholesome but sexy.
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They just had everything from
the go.
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They were happy and poppy,
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but had a little bit
more sustenance.
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I think I liked Wham in
the very beginning
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because of the stuff I read
about them having
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a social conscience
and venting about being on the dole,
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and that appealed to me
so much more
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than them just being pop artists.
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They were just the sort
of perfect pop package,
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and really smart as well.
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That kind of intelligence
kind of billowed off them,
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but they didn't make an issue of it.
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That was the kind of clever thing
about George -
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the intelligence was sort of there,
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but he didn't really care if you
noticed it or not.
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He was just looking
to wow you as a pop star.
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Pop became a very dirty word
in England
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for a good four or five years. Erm,
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but it's definitely, er,
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it's definitely
the music of '83 in England.
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You know, when George looked
at Andrew,
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that was Wham as far as he
was concerned.
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I actually thought Andrew was
the key figure
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because he was more confident,
he looked good,
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and he wasn't wearing
a string vest.
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People would say to George,
"You're the songwriter,
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"you're the singer,
well, what does Andrew do?"
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Andrew was the kind of look,
the essence of it.
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I just remember being, you know,
immediately struck
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by their bonhomie, you know. They
were incredibly easy to be around.
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You know, they were funny
and they were bright.
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I mean, they were 18 years of age.
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George's father was Greek,
Greek Cypriot.
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When you grow up in England
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but your parents aren't English, or
at least in this case one
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of your parents isn't English,
the predominant pop cultural form
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of your time is what you will
turn to,
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to find out who you are.
And pop is more often than not
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the engine of that realisation.
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It tells you what you are.
And Top Of The Pops,
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I mean, Top Of The Pops,
for someone like George, was
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a news programme. It wasn't just an
entertainment programme.
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It was where you got your news from.
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It wasn't cool, it wasn't hip,
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but as far as young people were
concerned, it was
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the centre of the universe.
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And it hit 15, 16,
17 million every week.
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Who's in, who's out, who's top,
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who's bottom, and who we
need to care about.
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And that was how we talked about it
in the playground.
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Good evening,
welcome to Top Of The Pops.
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A load of firsts tonight -
it's the first chart of November,
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it's my first Top Of The Pops,
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and it's THEIR first
Top Of The Pops. Wham!
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The debut was very important cos
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a debut was how you sort
of announced yourself to
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the world. And some artists came
across as quite naive,
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quite overwhelmed,
like they hadn't thought it through.
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And then there were other artists
that had clearly... Knew all about
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cameras and about red lights
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and where to look when there was
a red light on,
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and George had that down to a T.
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George was like a scholar of how to
carry yourself on television.
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# Well, I hadn't
seen your face around town a while
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# So I greeted you with a
knowing smile
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# When I saw that girl upon your arm
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# I knew she'd won your heart
with a fatal charm
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I said, "Soul Boy, let's
hit the town"...
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They had their routines,
they had the girls,
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they had each other, of course,
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and they were clearly
going to be stars.
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Right, now, I'm here in
the middle of the nearest
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to mass hysteria I've ever
been in any way.
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Last week I was an unknown, and
suddenly I've got all these girls
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around me. Anyway, I hear apparently
you're in the process of trying
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to change your record company
or something?
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Well, there's a lot of legal
difficulties we're having
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at the moment, erm, which is why we
haven't got a single out at
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the moment, which is a shame.
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They had big hit records
early on as Wham!
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but these were dance records
sold on 12-inch vinyl.
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They didn't get a royalty for this.
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It's very easy to say that we were
all naive
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and didn't know what we were doing,
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but, you know, they had lawyers,
I had lawyers,
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erm, so I don't know really.
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Basically, he knew what he was doing
when he went to
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the business just that much
more than we did at first,
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a considerable amount more,
because he'd been in
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the business for four
or five years.
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All the records they were selling,
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they were absolutely making
zero money for.
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They needed money to get out of
the Innervision contract.
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The plan was then going on tour
and creating Wham-mania.
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I went to see them at Hammersmith
Odeon where both Andrew
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and George were putting shuttlecocks