Everything She Wants

Everything She Wants is a pop song by Wham! from 1984, written and composed by George Michael. It was on the album Make It Big first released in October 1984, the single was released in the spring of 1985 and peaked in the Billboard Hot 100 on May 25, 1985 1 This place had Wham! three number-one hits in a row in the U.S. who were released from the same album. This was before last in 1979 the Bee Gees.

Formation

George Michael wrote the song based on the drum tracks. With the help of a synthesizer he took on an evening in the studio on the backing tracks. Back at his hotel, he wrote the lyrics the next morning. Because of this atypical for Michael approach the song for him did not come as a single release in question. The lyrics are about a man whose marriage there is a crisis, until he learns that he is father. So he has to work hard to support his family, and sees himself as trapped in a kind of trap. George Michael described the text as atypical for Wham!, As the songs of the band usually treated typical of the pop lightweight threads.

Publication

Following the global album release in October 1984, the song was released in December 1984 as the B- side of the single Last Christmas, the number 2 in the UK Top 40 reaching. Early 1985, the song appeared as a separate single with Like a baby on the B-side. This single did not reach the UK Top 40, but was in Germany and Austria a top ten hit. In the U.S., the single reached # 1 on the charts in 1985 in May.

1997 appeared a re-recorded version of the song titled Everything She Wants '97, which are both on the album The Best Of Wham - If You Were There ... was as also appeared as a single.

Cover versions

Footnotes

George Michael Andrew Ridgeley •

" Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do ) "•" Young Guns ( Go for It ) "•" Bad Boys "•" Club Tropicana "•" Club Fantastic Megamix "•" Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go "•" Careless Whisper " • "Freedom" • " Everything She Wants" • "Last Christmas" • " I'm Your Man " • " A Different Corner " • " The Edge of Heaven" • " Where Did Your Heart Go? "

  • Number -one hit
  • Pop song
  • 1984 Song
  • Wham! Song
  • Platinum - song (United Kingdom)
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985 Lip-synching in music Foxy Brown (rapper) Fatman Scoop Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) Young Guns (Go for It) Bad Boys (Wham! song) Freedom (Wham! song)
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