"Ah, "Last Christmas". At this point, the festive favourite by Wham! is more than just a song that gets pulled out the attic with the tinsel every year. Written in George Michael's childhood bedroom and recorded in August 1984, the track remains part of the very fabric of the holiday season 40 years on from its release. It took 36 years for it to reach number one in 2018, two years after Michael's death, and this year, it has bagged the top spot once again."
"Not only has it sold millions of copies, the song has also been covered by a plethora of artists (six versions were released in 2020 alone). It appears that covering "Last Christmas" is the first lesson in the Open University course for pop stars hoping to obtain an endless festive revenue stream. As it stands, there are more than 50 official covers of it uploaded to Spotify."
'Last Christmas' was written in George Michael's childhood bedroom and recorded in August 1984. The track remains part of the holiday season forty years after its release. It reached number one in 2018, thirty-six years after release, and topped the charts again this year. The song has sold millions of copies and has been widely covered; six versions were released in 2020 alone. More than fifty official covers are uploaded to Spotify. Almost every cover version of Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' has been ranked from harrowing to the original. Several covers draw harsh criticism, including Kidz Bop, Ludwig Ahgren and The Wiggles.
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