So Im Never Gonna Dance Again
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| Single by George Michael (most territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (The states) | ||||
| from the anthology Make It Big | ||||
| Released | 24 July 1984 | |||
| Studio | Sarm West, London | |||
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| "Careless Whisper" on YouTube | ||||
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 Artwork for the U.s. seven" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael. | ||||
"Devil-may-care Whisper" is a song by the English singer George Michael. It was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley[four] of Wham! and was released on 24 July 1984 on the Wham! anthology Brand Information technology Big.
The song features a prominent saxophone riff, and has been covered by a number of artists since its first release. It was released as a single and became a huge commercial success around the world. Information technology reached number one in nearly 25 countries, selling about half-dozen million copies worldwide—2 million of them in the United States.[5]
Background [edit]
Limerick and writing [edit]
In 1981, Michael was working as a DJ in the Bel Air restaurant near Bushey, Hertfordshire.[6] Michael explained in his autobiography, Blank, that he conceptualised "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. Michael wrote, "I was on my mode to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote 'Careless Whisper'. I take e'er written on buses, trains and in cars. It always happens on journeys... With 'Careless Whisper' I recollect exactly where information technology first came to me, where I came up with the sax line... I remember I was handing the money over to the guy on the coach and I got this line, the sax line... I wrote information technology totally in my head. I worked on information technology for about 3 months in my head."[7]
"When I was twelve, thirteen, I used to have to chaperone my sister, who was two years older, to an water ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. "In that location was a girl there with long blonde hair whose name was Jane. I was a fatty boy in glasses and I had a big beat on her - though I didn't stand a chance. My sister used to go and practise what she wanted when we got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this girl Jane."[8]
"A few years after, when I was 16, I had my kickoff human relationship with a girl called Helen," Michael continued.
It had just started to absurd off a scrap when I discovered that the blonde girl from Queensway had moved in but around the corner from my schoolhouse. She had moved in correct next to where I used to stand up and wait for my next-door neighbour, who used to requite me a lift home from schoolhouse. And one mean solar day I saw her walk down the path next to me and I idea – now where did SHE come from? She didn't know it was me. It was a few years later and I looked a lot different. And so we played a school disco with The Executive and she saw me singing and decided she fancied me. By this time she was that much older and a big buxom thing – and somewhen I started seeing her. She invited me in i day when I was waiting for my lift and I was ... in heaven.[8]
Michael observed that later he stopped wearing spectacles, he began getting invited to parties. "And the girl who didn't even see me when I was twelve invited me in," he noted.
So I went out with her for a couple of months merely I didn't finish seeing Helen. I thought I was being smart – I had gone from existence a total loser to existence a two-timer. And I remember my sisters used to give me a difficult time considering they plant out and they really liked the commencement girl. The whole idea of "Devil-may-care Whisper" was the beginning girl finding out most the 2d – which she never did. Only I started some other human relationship with a daughter called Alexis without finishing the one with Jane. Information technology all got a scrap complicated. Jane found out near her and got rid of me ... The whole fourth dimension I thought I was being cool, being this 2-timer, only there really wasn't that much emotion involved. I did experience guilty most the first girl – and I take seen her since – and the idea of the song was near her. "Devil-may-care Whisper" was us dancing, because nosotros danced a lot, and the idea was – we are dancing ... but she knows ... and it's finished.[8]
Andrew Ridgeley came up with the chord sequence on his Fender Telecaster he had received for his 18th birthday.[9] They continued to work together on the music and lyric both at Michael's house in Radlett, and Shirlie Holliman's aunt'southward basement flat in Peckham, where Ridgeley was living.[9] [ten]
Demoing [edit]
The original demo was recorded by local music producer Paul Mex, in January 1982 aslope those for "Guild Tropicana" and "Wham Rap! (Savour What Y'all Do)" in the front room of Ridgeley's home (his parents' lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with Mex's TEAC four-rail Portastudio. Considering most of the day was spent on Wham Rap!... and Ridgeley's mother had returned home by that signal, Devil-may-care Whisper had to exist recorded in one take very quickly. Information technology featured a Doctor Rhythm pulsate auto, an acoustic guitar (played by Ridgeley) and a bass guitar (played by Dave Westward), with Michael'south vocal (recorded with a microphone attached to a broom handle).[11] [12] The overall toll of the recording was £20 (largely due to the rental toll of the Portastudio) and the duo landed a deal with Innervision past Mark Dean on the forcefulness of the demos.[xiii] [14]
A more than complete and fully realised second demo was recorded on 24 March 1982 at Halligan Ring Eye, Holloway, London with a bankroll band and a saxophone riff.[15] However, on the same mean solar day, Michael and Ridgely were called over by Dean to sign a contract in improver to the record deal, which they did at a nearby greasy spoon café. Michael recalls of that day:
"I of the most incredible moments of my life was hearing 'Devil-may-care Whisper' demoed properly, with a ring, a sax and everything. It was ironic that we signed the contract with Marker [Dean] that mean solar day, the twenty-four hours I finally believed we had number-one material. That same day we signed it all abroad. But you tin can never really know what you are capable of, you tin can never really have that foresight."[15]
Production [edit]
The song went through at to the lowest degree two rounds of production. The first was during a trip Michael fabricated to Sheffield, Alabama, where he went to piece of work with producer Jerry Wexler at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1983.[16] [17] Michael was unhappy with the original version produced by Wexler, and decided to re-record and produce the vocal himself; the second version was the one ultimately released equally a single.
After the backing runway and George's song had been recorded, Wexler had booked the top saxophone histrion from Los Angeles to fly in and do the solo.[eighteen] "He arrived at eleven and should have been gone by twelve", recalled Wham! director Simon Napier-Bong. "Instead, after ii hours, he was even so in that location while everyone in the studio shuddered with embarrassment. He just couldn't play the opening riff the way George wanted it, the style it had been on the demo. Just that had been made two years earlier by a friend of George's who lived round the corner and played sax for fun in the pub."[18]
While the saxophonist appeared to be playing the function perfectly, Michael told him, "No, it'due south however not right, you lot see..." and he would lower his head to the talkback microphone and patiently hum the part to him all the same again. "It has to twitch upwards a niggling only there! Run across...? And not too much."[18]
Napier-Bell consulted with Wexler over Michael's dispute with the sax sound. "Is there really something George wants that'south different from what the sax player is playing?" Napier-Bong asked.[eighteen] "Definitely!" replied Wexler.
I've seen things similar this earlier. There's some tiny nuance that the sax player is somehow not getting right. Although you and I can't hear what it is, information technology may be the very thing that volition make the tape a hit. The success of pop records is so ephemeral, so unbelievably unpredictable, nosotros just can't take the take a chance of being impatient. Just this sax player'southward not going to go it, is he![eighteen]
The version Wexler produced was released afterward in the year, every bit a (4:41) B-side "Special Version" on 12" in the UK and Japan.
The record label Innervision was going to put out the Wexler version of "Careless Whisper" afterward the Club Fantastic Megamix as early as 1983. Song publisher Dick Leahy said that while he could not stop the release of the Guild Fantastic Megamix, he could stop the release of this single on the basis that as a publisher they "take the correct to grant the first license of the recording of a tune of which he controls the copyright". He was unable to do annihilation about the Guild Fantastic Megamix because it was already released material. He said: "We knew how big that vocal could be, so it was necessary to upset a few people to stop information technology."[nineteen] Towards the end of 1983, Michael was as well committed to touring with Wham! to promote Fantastic, so co-ordinate to him it would not have made sense to release "Careless Whisper" as a solo single in the middle of the tour, despite it being part of the setlist.[20]
Michael later went dorsum to London's Sarm Westward's Studio two to re-tape the track, the courage of which was washed with a live rhythm department in one have, with "loads of stuff bunged on [overdubbed] later" as Michael added, although the feel of information technology was basically alive.[21] [22] Michael elaborated on the song's production and how information technology turned out in the end:
"Jerry Wexler did one recording of "Devil-may-care Whisper" with me. And so we re-mixed that, which meant re-shooting the video then we completely re-did the runway nigh four weeks earlier information technology was due to be released. When we originally made it I was totally in awe of Jerry Wexler and it was the kickoff fourth dimension that I had ever felt like that about anybody that I'd worked with. Usually I have trouble convincing myself that people know what they're doing. In this case I had to get drunk in order to sing, I was and so nervous. Anyway, my publisher [Dick Leahy] and I had loads of discussions about whether the tape was good plenty for the song and whether in that location was enough of me in information technology because it simply did not sound like me. I said 'information technology'southward great. Jerry's done a slap-up job on it', and for the outset time since we'd started I was blind to what was going on because the song was already two and a half years old and I only did not accept a clue almost where else I could accept it. Somewhen I just thought, 'sod this. I'm going to go in and practice it as if it had never been done before with the musicians we unremarkably utilise and see what happens.' The track was much better because I was relaxed and I call back that our musicians did a much better chore than the Muscle Shoals department". [22]
Co-ordinate to English jazz musician Dan Forshaw, saxophonist Steve Gregory had received a phone call to re-record the song'south distinctive solo; he was the eleventh saxophone thespian to record the solo, for Michael was adamant to become the audio he wanted.[23] "Session musicians exercise non have much idea what they are going to exist recording until they make it, and this was the instance for Steve and another saxophonist who was alee of him in the (queue)", Forshaw recalled.
As usual there was a lot of waiting around and the guy in front of Steve threw in the towel maxim, 'information technology's only going to be some crappy B side anyhow so I'k off'. Steve waited and so discovered that the solo wasn't that easy to play in the written key, as his old Selmer Marker VI tenor didn't have a top F♯ cardinal. So, the engineer slowed the record down so that Steve could record the solo a semitone lower than intended. One time the tape was put back to the normal speed, an 'unnatural' saxophone audio was created that sounded a bit similar an Alto in the Paul Desmond vibe, only lacking a flake more depth and darkness to the audio. George Michael had but arrived at the studio and said 'that's the one, that'due south the sax solo I want'. This could exist down to that whole 80s synth concept where sounds became increasingly 'manufactured', or only that George never recognized it was 'wrong'.[23]
The officially released unmarried was issued in August 1984, inbound the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Nautical chart at number 12. Within two weeks information technology was at number one, ending a 9-week run at the acme for "Two Tribes" past Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[4] It stayed at number one for three weeks, going on to get the fifth best-selling single of 1984 in the Great britain; outsold only by the two Frankie Goes to Hollywood tracks, "Two Tribes" and "Relax", Stevie Wonder with "I Only Called to Say I Love You", and Band Assist'due south "Practise They Know It's Christmas?". The song also topped the charts in 25 other countries, including the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in February 1985 under the credit "Wham! featuring George Michael". Spending iii weeks at the top in America, the vocal was after named Billboard 's number-one song of 1985. The song was #i on the smooth radio top 500 songs of all time chart – proving its iconic status.
Despite the success, Michael was never fond of the song. He said in 1991 that it "was not an integral part of my emotional development ... it disappoints me that you can write a lyric very flippantly—and not a peculiarly good lyric—and information technology can mean so much to so many people. That's disillusioning for a writer."[19]
Music video [edit]
The official music video (which uses the shorter single version instead of the total anthology version and was directed by Duncan Gibbins, who previously directed "Wake Me Up Earlier You Go-Go") shows the guilt felt by a homo (portrayed by Michael) over an affair, and his acknowledgement that his partner (Lisa Stahl) is going to find out. Madeline Andrews-Hodge plays the adult female who lures George away. It was filmed on location in Miami, Florida, in Feb 1984[24] and features such locales as Kokosnoot Grove and Watson Island. The final part of the video shows Michael leaning out of a top flooring balcony of Miami'south Grove Towers.[25] [26]
A offset original version of the video was edited with the Jerry Wexler 1983 version, and featured Andrew every bit a cameo, handing over a alphabetic character to a nighttime-haired George. This version had a more detailed storyline, merely was then re-edited later.[27]
According to producer Jon Roseman, production of the video was "A fucking disaster".[28] Co-ordinate to Michael's co-star Lisa Stahl, "They lost footage of our kissing scene and then nosotros had to reshoot it, which I didn't complain about ... Then George decided he didn't similar his hair and so he flew his sister over from England to cut it and we had to reshoot more scenes."[29]
As the band felt they had "screwed up" the video, further footage of Michael singing the song onstage was later shot at the Lyceum Theatre, London.[28] The video performance (1984 Version) was officially uploaded to George Michael YouTube channel on 24 October 2009. It has over 834 1000000 views as of 2022.
Track list [edit]
All tracks are written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" (Single Edit) | 5:04 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | five:02 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| i. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | six:31 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | 5:02 |
| No. | Championship | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Extended Mix) | 6:20 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | four:52 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" | iv:50 |
| ii. | "Careless Whisper" | 4:l |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | six:31 |
| two. | "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Jerry Wexler Special Version) | 5:34 |
| three. | "Careless Whisper" (Condensed Instrumental Version) | four:52 |
- Note: The Extended Mix is identical to the album version from Make It Big.
Credits and personnel [edit]
- George Michael – lead and backing vocals
- Andrew Ridgeley – audio-visual guitar (uncredited)
- Steve Gregory – saxophone
- Deon Estus – bass
- Trevor Murrell – drums[nb ane]
- Chris Parren – keyboards
- Anne Dudley – keyboards [31]
- Hugh Burns – electrical guitar
- Danny Cummings – percussion
Credits adjusted from the Extended Mix's liner notes.[32]
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Cover versions [edit]
"Devil-may-care Whisper" has been covered by many other artists. Among the about meaning versions are:
- Sarah Washington on a trip the light fantastic version that peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart (1993).[91]
- 2Play produced a cover version in 2004. It charted at number 29 in the UK.[92]
- Kamasi Washington and El Debarge performed it to pay tribute to George Michael at the 2017 BET Awards.[93]
- South African alternative rock band Seether covered the song on their 2007 album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces. It charted at number 63 in the US.[94]
- Dutch rapper Lil' Kleine sampled the chorus for his vocal, titled "Dansen", on his virtually recent album Ibiza Stories.[95]
Encounter also [edit]
- List of acknowledged singles in the U.k.
- List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s
- List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1984
- List of number-one singles of 1984 (Ireland)
- List of number-one hits of 1984 (Switzerland)
- Listing of number-one singles from the 1980s (UK)
- List of RPM number-i singles of 1985
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985 (U.Southward.)
- List of number-i adult gimmicky singles of 1985 (U.Due south.)
Notes [edit]
- ^ The proper noun of Wham!'s drummer was Trevor Murrell.[30] He is listed on the liner notes as Trevor Morrell.
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External links [edit]
- Careless Whisper canvass music PDF
arnetterepasustem.blogspot.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_Whisper
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