Everything She Wants
| Everything She Wants | |
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| Wham! | |
| publication | October 23, 1984 (album) November 30, 1984 (single, B-side of Last Christmas ) December 27, 1984 (single, A-side, remix) |
| length | 5:07 (7 "version, B-side) 5:31 (Remix, A-side) 6:34 (12" version, remix) |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | George Michael |
| Producer (s) | George Michael |
| Label | Epic Records , Columbia Records |
| album | Make it big |
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Everything She Wants is a pop song from Wham! from 1984. It was written by George Michael and first appeared on the album Make It Big . After being released as a single in December 1984, the piece became a top ten hit in Germany and Austria and reached number one on the charts in the United States .
Emergence
George Michael wrote the song based on the drum tracks. With the help of a synthesizer he recorded the backing tracks in the recording studio one evening . Back at his hotel the next morning he wrote the lyrics. Due to this atypical approach for Michael, the song was initially out of the question for him as a single release. The text is about a man whose marriage is in crisis until he learns that he is going to be a father. He has to work hard to support his family and finds himself trapped in some kind of trap. Michael described the lyrics as untypical for Wham !, as the band's songs usually dealt with the lightweight themes typical of pop music.
publication
After the worldwide album release in October 1984, the song was released in late November 1984 as the B-side of the single Last Christmas , which reached number two in the UK Top 40 . At the end of December 1984 the song was released in a remix version as an independent single with Last Christmas on the B-side and became a top ten hit in Germany and Austria. In the US, the single reached number one in the charts in May 1985. With that, Wham! after Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Careless Whisper in the United States, three consecutive number one hits that were released from the same album. This was last achieved in 1979 by the Bee Gees .
In 1997 a newly recorded version of the song was released with the title Everything She Wants '97 , which was both on the album The Best of Wham - If You Were There ... and was released as a single.
Cover versions
- 1999: Foxy Brown (I Can't)
- 2008: Fatman Scoop
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Charts DE Charts AT Charts US
- ↑ a b Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Billboard Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 608 .
- ↑ Entry on Last Christmas at chartstats.com, accessed on November 18, 2012.