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Video of the week: WHAM! ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’

May 16, 2022

This week’s Video Of The Week is Wham!’s ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’ which was released this month in 1984. Here are a few facts you might not know about the smash hit…

-The inspiration for the song came from a scribbled note that Andrew Ridgeley had left for his parents.

-The note was intended to read “wake me up before you go” but he accidentally wrote ‘up’ twice so finished the sentence with “before you go go”.

-The song became WHAM!’s first number 1 hit in the UK and US.

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