8/09/2008

Happy 25th Birthday Fantastic.


Released in July of 1983, Fantastic was the debut album by Wham!. Fantastic reached #1 in the UK and "included the previously-released singles 'Young Guns,' 'Wham! Rap,' and 'Bad Boys.' 'Club Tropicana' was also released as a single, as was 'Club Fantastic Megamix.'

"The album also features a hidden track (played on a honky tonk piano), which is included in the final 20 seconds of the 'Young Guns (Go For It)' track."

"Bad Boys" reached #2 in the UK charts, and became the biggest hit from the album, the full version of "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" was almost seven minutes long and went to #8, "Club Tropicana" was the fourth and final single to be taken from the album, and went to #4.

Waist High's favorite track from the album, "Young Guns (Go for It)," was the band's first hit and peaked at #3. The song, which George Michael wrote "about a teenage lad's worry that his best friend was getting too committed to a girl when he should have been enjoying his youth and the single life," features the great line, "Death by matrimony."

"Young Guns (Go for It)" has a big feature by backing singers Pepsi and Shirlie.

Quoted material: wikipedia.org