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It's unfortunately such a pop culture joke that I've never listened to it before now.

I just listened to it, and it's amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There’s a documentary about Wham! that goes into how they composed the song and it’s pretty interesting. The outfits are hilarious, also. It’s on Netflix I think?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit, what? Sorry, what is it called? I can't find like the name of that documentary, but I can find a hundred references to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s literally called “Wham!” Maybe it’s region locked on Netflix?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Oh, awesome, I got it. Thanks. Exclamation point

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's about where I was.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't get how it was a joke, maybe because it was such a bit hit that it became kind of a trope? Anyway, this song was #1 the day I was born. Never cared too much about it, but that sax is iconic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah interesting about the sax being his interpretation of an older song.

Someone else commented that George Michael wanted to cover the song specifically to fix the saxophone and then he did and now it's like the most famous saxophone piece in any song ever.

[–] Contingencyfork 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just went through a little rabbit hole reading up on this and what an interesting bit of info! Thank you for sharing!

To anyone else interested:Wikipedia entry it's under 'production'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I hadn't even read the whole story. I just did, what a great tale. Thanks!

[–] disguy_ovahea 1 points 4 months ago

Sergio Flores is the sexy sax man prankster

https://youtu.be/GaoLU6zKaws

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You are the true superstar, watching this makes me so happy.

This is my first time experiencing his glory, I appreciate the introduction.

Wow! After I watched a lot of that I was like oh my god How long is this? I feel like I've been watching this for like 10 minutes and I checked and I was only 43 seconds in.

Amazing.