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| Single by George Michael (most territories)/Wham! featuring George Michael (Usa) | ||||
| from the album 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 The states 7" vinyl release credited to Wham! featuring George Michael. | ||||
"Careless Whisper" is a song by the English singer George Michael. It was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley[4] of Wham! and was released on 24 July 1984 on the Wham! album Make It Large.
The song features a prominent saxophone riff, and has been covered by a number of artists since its get-go release. It was released as a single and became a huge commercial success effectually the earth. It reached number 1 in most 25 countries, selling about six 1000000 copies worldwide—two 1000000 of them in the Usa.[v]
Background [edit]
Composition and writing [edit]
In 1981, Michael was working as a DJ in the Bel Air eating place near Bushey, Hertfordshire.[6] Michael explained in his autobiography, Bare, that he conceptualised "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. Michael wrote, "I was on my manner to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote 'Careless Whisper'. I have always written on buses, trains and in cars. It always happens on journeys... With 'Careless Whisper' I retrieve exactly where it starting time came to me, where I came up with the sax line... I remember I was handing the money over to the guy on the bus and I got this line, the sax line... I wrote information technology totally in my head. I worked on it for about three months in my head."[seven]
"When I was twelve, 13, I used to take to chaperone my sister, who was 2 years older, to an ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. "At that place was a girl there with long blonde pilus whose name was Jane. I was a fatty male child in glasses and I had a big crush on her - though I didn't stand a take chances. My sister used to go and do what she wanted when nosotros got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this daughter Jane."[8]
"A few years later, when I was sixteen, I had my showtime human relationship with a girl called Helen," Michael connected.
Information technology had just started to cool off a bit when I discovered that the blonde girl from Queensway had moved in just effectually the corner from my schoolhouse. She had moved in right adjacent to where I used to stand and wait for my next-door neighbour, who used to give me a lift domicile from school. And one day I saw her walk down the path adjacent to me and I thought – at present where did SHE come up from? She didn't know information technology was me. Information technology 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 eventually I started seeing her. She invited me in ane solar day when I was waiting for my lift and I was ... in heaven.[viii]
Michael observed that after he stopped wearing glasses, 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 simply I didn't stop seeing Helen. I thought I was being smart – I had gone from beingness a total loser to being a two-timer. And I remember my sisters used to requite me a hard time because they found out and they really liked the first girl. The whole idea of "Careless Whisper" was the start girl finding out about the second – which she never did. But I started another relationship with a daughter called Alexis without finishing the i with Jane. It all got a scrap complicated. Jane found out well-nigh her and got rid of me ... The whole time I thought I was being absurd, beingness this two-timer, but in that location really wasn't that much emotion involved. I did feel guilty about the outset daughter – and I have seen her since – and the idea of the song was about her. "Devil-may-care Whisper" was us dancing, because we danced a lot, and the thought was – we are dancing ... but she knows ... and it's finished.[8]
Andrew Ridgeley came upwardly 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'southward firm in Radlett, and Shirlie Holliman'south aunt's basement flat in Peckham, where Ridgeley was living.[nine] [10]
Demoing [edit]
The original demo was recorded by local music producer Paul Mex, in January 1982 alongside those for "Social club Tropicana" and "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" in the forepart room of Ridgeley'south home (his parents' lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with Mex's TEAC 4-track Portastudio. Because most of the day was spent on Wham Rap!... and Ridgeley's mother had returned dwelling past that point, Careless Whisper had to exist recorded in ane take very quickly. Information technology featured a Doctor Rhythm drum machine, an audio-visual guitar (played by Ridgeley) and a bass guitar (played past Dave West), with Michael'due south vocal (recorded with a microphone attached to a broom handle).[11] [12] The overall cost of the recording was £20 (largely due to the rental cost of the Portastudio) and the duo landed a deal with Innervision past Mark Dean on the strength of the demos.[13] [14]
A more than complete and fully realised second demo was recorded on 24 March 1982 at Halligan Ring Middle, Holloway, London with a backing band and a saxophone riff.[15] Withal, on the same mean solar day, Michael and Ridgely were called over past Dean to sign a contract in addition to the record bargain, which they did at a nearby greasy spoon café. Michael recalls of that day:
"One of the most incredible moments of my life was hearing 'Careless Whisper' demoed properly, with a band, a sax and everything. It was ironic that we signed the contract with Mark [Dean] that 24-hour interval, the day I finally believed we had number-one textile. That same day we signed it all away. But you can never really know what you are capable of, you can never really have that foresight."[15]
Production [edit]
The song went through at least two rounds of production. The outset was during a trip Michael made to Sheffield, Alabama, where he went to 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 song himself; the second version was the ane ultimately released every bit a unmarried.
After the backing runway and George's vocal had been recorded, Wexler had booked the top saxophone player from Los Angeles to fly in and exercise the solo.[18] "He arrived at eleven and should have been gone by twelve", recalled Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell. "Instead, afterwards two hours, he was nonetheless there while anybody in the studio shuddered with embarrassment. He just couldn't play the opening riff the way George wanted information technology, the style it had been on the demo. Merely 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 office perfectly, Michael told him, "No, it's even so not right, you run across..." and he would lower his head to the talkback microphone and patiently hum the part to him even so again. "It has to twitch upwards a trivial but there! See...? And not also much."[18]
Napier-Bell consulted with Wexler over Michael'southward dispute with the sax sound. "Is there actually something George wants that'southward different from what the sax player is playing?" Napier-Bell asked.[18] "Definitely!" replied Wexler.
I've seen things similar this before. There's some tiny nuance that the sax actor is somehow non getting right. Although you and I can't hear what it is, it may be the very thing that will make the record a hit. The success of popular records is then imperceptible, so unbelievably unpredictable, we simply tin can't take the run a risk of being impatient. Only this sax player'south not going to get it, is he![18]
The version Wexler produced was released later in the year, as a (4:41) B-side "Special Version" on 12" in the UK and Nippon.
The record characterization Innervision was going to put out the Wexler version of "Devil-may-care Whisper" subsequently the Club Fantastic Megamix as early as 1983. Song publisher Dick Leahy said that while he could not stop the release of the Club Fantastic Megamix, he could stop the release of this single on the basis that as a publisher they "accept the right to grant the first license of the recording of a tune of which he controls the copyright". He was unable to do anything well-nigh the Guild Fantastic Megamix because information technology was already released material. He said: "We knew how big that song could be, so information technology was necessary to upset a few people to finish it."[nineteen] Towards the end of 1983, Michael was as well committed to touring with Wham! to promote Fantastic, so according to him it would not take fabricated sense to release "Careless Whisper" as a solo unmarried in the center of the tour, despite it being role of the setlist.[20]
Michael later went back to London's Sarm West'south Studio ii to re-record the rail, the backbone of which was done with a live rhythm section in 1 take, with "loads of stuff bunged on [overdubbed] later" as Michael added, although the feel of it was basically live.[21] [22] Michael elaborated on the song's production and how information technology turned out in the cease:
"Jerry Wexler did 1 recording of "Careless Whisper" with me. Then nosotros re-mixed that, which meant re-shooting the video and and so we completely re-did the track nigh 4 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 first time that I had ever felt similar that about anybody that I'd worked with. Usually I take trouble convincing myself that people know what they're doing. In this case I had to become drunk in lodge to sing, I was so nervous. Anyway, my publisher [Dick Leahy] and I had loads of discussions near whether the record was good plenty for the song and whether in that location was plenty of me in it because it just did not sound like me. I said 'it's peachy. Jerry'south done a great chore on information technology', and for the first time since we'd started I was blind to what was going on because the vocal was already ii and a half years old and I only did non have a clue nearly where else I could take information technology. Somewhen I simply thought, 'sod this. I'thousand going to go in and do it every bit if it had never been done before with the musicians nosotros normally use and run into what happens.' The track was much better because I was relaxed and I recollect that our musicians did a much better job than the Muscle Shoals section". [22]
According to English language jazz musician Dan Forshaw, saxophonist Steve Gregory had received a phone call to re-record the song's distinctive solo; he was the eleventh saxophone player to record the solo, for Michael was determined to go the sound he wanted.[23] "Session musicians do non have much idea what they are going to be recording until they make it, and this was the example for Steve and another saxophonist who was ahead of him in the (queue)", Forshaw recalled.
Every bit usual there was a lot of waiting around and the guy in forepart of Steve threw in the towel saying, 'it's only going to exist some crappy B side anyway and then I'm off'. Steve waited and then discovered that the solo wasn't that easy to play in the written central, as his old Selmer Mark VI tenor didn't have a elevation F♯ key. And so, the engineer slowed the tape downwards so that Steve could record the solo a semitone lower than intended. Once the record was put back to the normal speed, an 'unnatural' saxophone sound was created that sounded a bit similar an Alto in the Paul Desmond vibe, but lacking a bit more depth and darkness to the sound. George Michael had just arrived at the studio and said 'that'due south the one, that's the sax solo I want'. This could exist down to that whole 80s synth concept where sounds became increasingly 'manufactured', or but that George never recognized information technology was 'wrong'.[23]
The officially released single was issued in August 1984, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 12. Within two weeks it was at number one, ending a nine-week run at the top for "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[four] It stayed at number ane for iii weeks, going on to become the fifth all-time-selling single of 1984 in the United Kingdom; outsold only past the two Frankie Goes to Hollywood tracks, "Two Tribes" and "Relax", Stevie Wonder with "I Just Called to Say I Dearest You", and Band Aid'southward "Do 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 nether the credit "Wham! featuring George Michael". Spending three weeks at the top in America, the song was later on named Billboard 'due south number-one vocal of 1985. The song was #1 on the smooth radio top 500 songs of all fourth dimension 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 office of my emotional development ... information technology disappoints me that you can write a lyric very flippantly—and not a particularly good lyric—and information technology can hateful so much to and so many people. That'south disillusioning for a author."[xix]
Music video [edit]
The official music video (which uses the shorter single version instead of the total album version and was directed by Duncan Gibbins, who previously directed "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go") shows the guilt felt by a homo (portrayed past Michael) over an matter, and his acknowledgement that his partner (Lisa Stahl) is going to find out. Madeline Andrews-Hodge plays the woman who lures George abroad. It was filmed on location in Miami, Florida, in Feb 1984[24] and features such locales equally Coconut Grove and Watson Island. The final part of the video shows Michael leaning out of a top floor balustrade of Miami's Grove Towers.[25] [26]
A commencement original version of the video was edited with the Jerry Wexler 1983 version, and featured Andrew as a cameo, handing over a alphabetic character to a night-haired George. This version had a more detailed storyline, but 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 so we had to reshoot information technology, which I didn't complain about ... Then George decided he didn't similar his hair so he flew his sister over from England to cut it and we had to reshoot more scenes."[29]
Equally the ring felt they had "screwed up" the video, further footage of Michael singing the vocal onstage was later shot at the Lyceum Theatre, London.[28] The video functioning (1984 Version) was officially uploaded to George Michael YouTube aqueduct on 24 October 2009. Information technology has over 834 million views every bit of 2022.
Track listing [edit]
All tracks are written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
| No. | Championship | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" (Single Edit) | 5:04 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | 5:02 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| ane. | "Devil-may-care Whisper" (Extended Mix) | 6:31 |
| two. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | 5:02 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | vi:20 |
| two. | "Careless Whisper" (Instrumental) | 4:52 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Whisper" | 4:50 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" | 4:50 |
| No. | Championship | Length |
|---|---|---|
| ane. | "Careless Whisper" (Extended Mix) | six:31 |
| 2. | "Careless Whisper" (Jerry Wexler Special Version) | five:34 |
| 3. | "Careless Whisper" (Condensed Instrumental Version) | 4:52 |
- Note: The Extended Mix is identical to the album version from Go far Big.
Credits and personnel [edit]
- George Michael – pb and backing vocals
- Andrew Ridgeley – acoustic 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 adapted from the Extended Mix'southward liner notes.[32]
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Cover versions [edit]
"Careless Whisper" has been covered by many other artists. Among the most significant versions are:
- Sarah Washington on a dance 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 culling rock band Seether covered the song on their 2007 anthology Finding Dazzler in Negative Spaces. It charted at number 63 in the United states of america.[94]
- Dutch rapper Lil' Kleine sampled the chorus for his song, titled "Dansen", on his nigh recent album Ibiza Stories.[95]
Meet also [edit]
- Listing of best-selling singles in the Britain
- List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s
- List of Dutch Meridian 40 number-one singles of 1984
- List of number-one singles of 1984 (Ireland)
- Listing of number-i hits of 1984 (Switzerland)
- List of number-1 singles from the 1980s (Britain)
- List of RPM number-one singles of 1985
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985 (U.Southward.)
- Listing of number-one adult gimmicky singles of 1985 (U.S.)
Notes [edit]
- ^ The name of Wham!'due south drummer was Trevor Murrell.[30] He is listed on the liner notes as Trevor Morrell.
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External links [edit]
- Careless Whisper sheet music PDF
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