Wham!

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2008

First Recording: 1982

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Wham!
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Make It Big (1984)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Last Christmas (1984)
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (1984)
Freedom (1984)

Wham! @ Wikipedia

Will Wham! be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Like Joy Division/New Order, The Small Faces/Faces, The (Young) Rascals, Parliament-Funkadelic, he should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just once for his entire career as Wham!/George Michael. That's how Joel Whitburn has him listed in the Billboard books. George Michael was a great songwriter. The songs he wrote as a member of Wham! are classics. Songs like Bad Boys, Young Guns (Go For It), Wham Rap, I'm Your Man, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Careless Whispers, Everything She Wants, Freedom, Last Christmas. If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts George Michael solo, they are leaving out all that great material he produced with Wham!, which is where his career started. The right thing to do would be to nominate and induct him for his entire career as Wham!/George Michael, not so much for Andrew Ridgeley's sake, but for George Michael's sake. George Michael's solo career was equally successful to his career with Wham! Wham! and George Michael each had a classic number one album. Wham! had 1984's Make It Big, and George Michael had 1987's Faith. I wouldn't induct George Michael twice. I can see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating and inducting him under Wham!/George Michael for his entire body of work. The case is made. It will happen! WHAM! produced 3 studio albums with original material, while George Michael produced 4 studio albums with original material. So they are pretty much even. A joint induction as Wham!/George Michael is the right thing to do.

THE ALBUMS

Wham!/George Michael

Fantastic * Make It Big * Music From The Edge Of Heaven * Faith * Listen Without Prejudice * Older * Songs From The Last Century * Patience

THE SINGLES

Wham!/George Michael

Bad Boys * Young Guns (Go For It) * Wham Rap * Freedom * Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go * Everything She Wants * Careless Whisper * Last Christmas * The Edge Of Heaven * A Different Corner * I'm Your Man * I Knew You Were Waiting For Me * Faith * Father Figure * I Want Your Sex * Monkey * One More Try * Kissing A Fool * Praying For Time * Freedom * Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me * Too Funky * Fastlove * Jesus To A Child

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/31/2013 @ 10:13am


"Joy Divison/New Order"

i puked a little (a lot)

Posted by GFW on Friday, 05/31/2013 @ 12:23pm


This isn't like Rufus with Chaka Khan because there were only two people in WHAM!. If they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as Wham!/George Michael, only one other person will have George Michael's name on his trophy, and that would be Andrew Ridgeley. Guitarist Deon Estus was considered a sideman, not a member of Wham!, and the female back-up singers as well were not full members of Wham!. Only George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were on the WHAM! album covers.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 07/10/2013 @ 15:56pm


WHAM!

01. George Michael (1981-1986; vocals, bass, guitar, piano, keyboards, drums)
02. Andrew Ridgeley (1981-1986; vocals, guitar)
03. Deon Estus (1981-1986; sidemen, bass, backing vocals)
04. Helen DeMacque (1981-1986; backing vocals)
05. Dee C. Lee (1981-1986; backing vocals)
06. Shirlie Holliman (1981-1986; backing vocals)


...But only George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley would be inducted because the other members were all sidemen.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 07/30/2013 @ 19:30pm


“Last Election”
Sung to the tune of “Last Christmas”
Performed by myself

Last Election
I gave you my vote
But the very next day, you threw it away
This year
To save me from fears
I’ll vote for someone better

Once taken and twice as kind
I keep my distance
But I still catch your lies
Tell me senator
Do you recognize me?
Well
It’s been 4 years
It doesn’t surprise me
I licked it and sent it
With a note saying “I vote for you”
I meant it
Now I know what a fool I’ve been
But if you tell me now
I know you’d trick me again

Last Election
I gave you my vote
But the very next day, you threw it away
This year
To save me from fears
I’ll vote for someone better

A crowded room
Peers with tired eyes
I’m looking for you
And your soul of lies
My God, I thought you were
Someone to rely on
Me?
I guess I was a shoulder to lie on

A face of a voter with a fire in his heart
A voter under cover, but you took me apart
Now I’ve found a real leader, you’ll never fool me again

Last Election
I gave you my vote
But the very next day, you threw it away
This year
To save me from fears
I’ll vote for someone better

A face of a voter with a fire in his heart
A voter under cover, but you took him apart
Maybe next year I’ll vote for someone
I’ll vote for someone better.

Posted by Andrew on Sunday, 08/25/2013 @ 22:18pm


George Michael was WHAM!. They'll be inducted as WHAM!/George Michael.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 08/13/2014 @ 09:12am


Whom do you think was a better duo, Wham or Go West?

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 10/29/2014 @ 17:26pm


RIP George Michael

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/25/2016 @ 22:14pm


Like Joy Division/New Order, The Small Faces/Faces, The (Young) Rascals, Parliament-Funkadelic, he should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just once for his entire career as Wham!/George Michael. That's how Joel Whitburn has him listed in the Billboard books. George Michael was a great songwriter. The songs he wrote as a member of Wham! are classics. Songs like Bad Boys, Young Guns (Go For It), Wham Rap, I'm Your Man, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Careless Whispers, Everything She Wants, Freedom, Last Christmas. If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts George Michael solo, they are leaving out all that great material he produced with Wham!, which is where his career started. The right thing to do would be to nominate and induct him for his entire career as Wham!/George Michael, not so much for Andrew Ridgeley's sake, but for George Michael's sake. George Michael's solo career was equally successful to his career with Wham! Wham! and George Michael each had a classic number one album. Wham! had 1984's Make It Big, and George Michael had 1987's Faith. I wouldn't induct George Michael twice. I can see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating and inducting him under Wham!/George Michael for his entire body of work. The case is made. It will happen! WHAM! produced 3 studio albums with original material, while George Michael produced 4 studio albums with original material. So they are pretty much even. A joint induction as Wham!/George Michael is the right thing to do.

This isn't like Rufus with Chaka Khan because there were only two people in WHAM!. If they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as Wham!/George Michael, only one other person will have George Michael's name on his trophy, and that would be Andrew Ridgeley.

THE ALBUMS

Wham!/George Michael

Fantastic * Make It Big * Music From The Edge Of Heaven * Faith * Listen Without Prejudice * Older * Songs From The Last Century * Patience

THE SINGLES

Wham!/George Michael

Bad Boys * Young Guns (Go For It) * Wham Rap * Freedom * Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go * Everything She Wants * Careless Whisper * Last Christmas * The Edge Of Heaven * A Different Corner * I'm Your Man * I Knew You Were Waiting For Me * Faith * Father Figure * I Want Your Sex * Monkey * One More Try * Kissing A Fool * Praying For Time * Freedom * Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me * Too Funky * Fastlove * Jesus To A Child

Posted by Roy on Monday, 12/26/2016 @ 08:58am


Should be nominated and inducted as WHAM!/George Michael.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 01/10/2017 @ 04:45am


ABBA > CHIC > BOSTON > WHAM!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 02/6/2017 @ 00:59am


I already told Steven Van Zandt and that guy from the Roots (I forgot his name) on twitter that George Michael should be nominated and inducted as WHAM!/George Michael.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 03/12/2018 @ 08:20am


QUEEN > ABBA > CHIC > WHAM!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/9/2019 @ 09:29am


In the early hours of 25 December 2016, Michael died in bed at his home in Goring-on-Thames, aged 53. He was found by his Australian partner, Fadi Fawaz.

In March 2017, a senior coroner in Oxfordshire attributed Michael's death to dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and a fatty liver.

Owing to the delay in determining the cause of death, Michael's funeral was held 29 March 2017. In a private ceremony, he was buried at Highgate Cemetery in north London, near his mother's grave. That summer an informal memorial garden was created outside his former home in Highgate. The site, in a private square that Michael had owned, is tended by fans.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/8/2020 @ 02:34am


Imagine if they only induct him as George Michael, but they also perform WHAM! songs at the induction ceremony. Just like when they inducted Linda Ronstadt and they performed one song from Stone Poneys. Please induct him as WHAM!/George Michael.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 07/6/2020 @ 11:47am


I would be fine with that. But knowing the nom com it would likely be just George Michael alone.

Posted by Greg on Monday, 07/6/2020 @ 21:20pm


They might nominate him as George Michael / WHAM!, instead of Wham! / George Michael, to keep it alphabetical.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 08/13/2022 @ 12:10pm


So I guess we could still see a WHAM! induction, and second induction for George Michael.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 11/4/2023 @ 09:16am


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