Fantastic! had big hits (Young Guns, Bad Boys, Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do) and of course Club Tropicana) BUT also some excellent album tracks

A Ray Of Sunshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HybDV7NqBAM

Come On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPRTNeiKfQ

Nothing Looks The Same In The Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_IsB3LoOY

b-side Blue (Armed With Love) - should have made the album.
http://youtu.be/3CASJmZL1Ug

and the cool cover of Love Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67lMD...eature=related
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Make It Big - had bigger hits (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Freedom, Everything She Wants) but the album tracks were borderline crap!!

If You Were There
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJKHuClYVxI

Heartbeat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRxdVXnOSw

Credit Card Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofPKdHIgzhc

Like A Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pk26QDfFME

Tbh i'm a big george michael fan but with Wham it's more or less just the singles and some of them are a bit ropey

Wham! always had one more album in them. I always thought the end was a little abrupt with the fourth side of The Final obviously part of what should have been their third album.

But I loved loved loved Make It Big. Credit Card Baby should have been a single - sounds like a no. 1 to me.

George Michael was and is such a wonderful and underrated songwriter.

Yeah, a 1986 album would've been a better ending than The Final - America had the EP Music From The Edge Of Heaven (some say it's a 3rd album...it's not)

"The Edge of Heaven"
"Battlestations"
"I'm Your Man"
"Where Did Your Heart Go?"

A good start for a 3rd album - plus A Different Corner could have been added a la Careless Whisper on Make It Big

george was particularly embarrassed by the early material and i have to agree it was pretty weak. the later singles was far stronger, but they never made a credible album in my opinion.

Really? A Ray Of Sunshine is my favourite Wham song! I had the album for my 9th birthday....I can clearly remember receiving it from my Grandad in his front room...memories!!

I think Nothing Looks The Same In The Light is a cracking tune.

In my opinion Listen Without Prejudice is better than any of the Wham albums though.

i prefer his solo material to be honest.

Older is his best album by far

I don't like Jesus To a Child or the title track.

I thought this was pretty darned good though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoWwt6IJDGk

Star People is my least fave. LOVE Older though.

You Know That Want To is a wasted b-side - album track worthy....if not single

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_TFJqgfOk

it's clear by the second album that george wanted to launch his solo career, with 1 of the tracks from the album credited to him as a solo artist when released as a single, and then a different corner being released as a seperate solo single before the official end of wham, but after the announced their split

the edge of heaven EP only really had 3 "new" tracks on it, which was basically 2 singles and a b side. the rest was just stuff that had been previously released in one way or another, with a b side from club tropicana, both sides of the last christmas single, with the was (not was) cover, georges second solo single, and a remix of their first single. so altogether a bit of a hodge podge of stuff, and far from being anything like a third album, especially at the time when most fans already had most of it. i dunno why they put the live version of blue from china instead of the studio version

they could have stuck soulboy and golden soul on the cd version of make it big. maybe one day they will do deluxe editions with those tracks included and the b sides and all the single version of wham rap included (there's a few versions with different lyrics), and other 12"s etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Bc6OvuKp0mo

Just discovered "This Kind Of Love" from the Trojan Souls

I think this is still my favourite GM track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udtByWgt1Mk&ob=av2n

Closely followed by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9abYzI9ycjk

I wonder why Andrew Ridgeley didn't have a post Wham! career?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQoJtGaK1N8

interview ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEUY6...eature=related

that could have been an interesting album. it's funny how few people knew about it's very existance

i like now that i found you, the elton and george duet