While Mariah Carey gets most of the pop music attention every Christmas season, Wham! doesn’t do too shabby either.
Their now iconic ‘Last Christmas’ became their greatest hit.
But the band’s former manager said the late George Michael would sometimes get frustrated by the song’s popularity.
Too Perfect
People reports:
“Last Christmas” remains Wham!’s most iconic song — as it returns to the charts every holiday season — and the late George Michael had a lot of thoughts on its staying power.
In a recent interview with The Telegraph, former Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell reflected on his time working with the pop duo from their 1981 inception to their 1986 breakup, and admitted Michael thought the success of their 1984 holiday song could get a bit “annoying.”
Napier-Bell, 84, explained that the Grammy winner (who died at age 53 on Christmas Day in 2016) liked the song itself but felt frustrated due to how “perfect” it was.
The music manager told the outlet, “He was always slightly upset by the fact [that] he naggingly knew it was the best thing he ever wrote.”
“George, above all, really wanted to be remembered as a great songwriter,” Napier-Bell explained. “And I think at the bottom of his mind … it was rather annoying that the song he got so perfect was a Christmas song.”
An Extraordinary Holiday Hit
The story added, “The executive also took a moment to reflect on how timeless Michael’s Christmas tune is, noting, ‘It’s a magnificent piece of work, isn’t it? How can you create a Christmas song that has bells in it, which says ‘Christmas’ every three seconds, and yet has nothing cheesy about it?”
He reiterated, “It’s extraordinary how ‘Last Christmas’ stands up.”
Extraordinary indeed.
But imagine having a mega holiday hit and being upset about it?
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