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Wham! - Make It Big (1984)⠀
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Starting off Monday with something that's maybe slightly out of character for me. I was a child of the 70s and 80s and a lot of chart pop music formed the first soundtracks to my life. Although I don't often collect the mainstream pop albums I grew up with, that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them. As a 13 year old, Wham! and their British contemporaries were ubiquitous whether you were a music fan in the 80s. Their music played ceaselessly on radio, their music videos popped up on TV every now and then and the music magazines I started reading then would plaster them on the pages every other month. After a while, you get numbed by them and seek some solace away from the acts that dominated all the available media then. That's how I started stretching and becoming almost deliberately contrary in my choices. Of course I was still just a pop loving teenager, but I would often gravitate towards more left-field pop acts just for the heck of it. ⠀
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George Michael would eventually prove to be a supremely talented songwriter and performer but here, aside from the pop schmaltz such as Heartbeat and Careless Whisper, there is the sublime Everything She Wants. It grooves in a funky fashion that would later form much of his work. It showed the talent burgeoning but which I was probably too skeptical then to recognize. It might have taken me decades to overcome the disdain of familiarity to fully appreciate some of his finest moments, but at least I came round to it. ⠀
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Sadly he left us too soon but his wonderful music lives on. ⠀
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Location: Singapore / Singapura / 新加坡 / சிங்கப்பூர்
🌎 Día Mundial del Rock 🎸
¿Por qué se celebra el 13 de julio?
🎤 La fecha conmemora el mega concierto benéfico #LiveAid que se realizó en 1985 por iniciativa del músico Bob Geldof en el que participaron los artistas más grandes del momento en su mayoría exponentes del #Rock.
👉 En aquellos años los habitantes de países africanos afrontaban una hambruna por lo que se organizaron 2 conciertos: uno en el estadio de Wembley en Reino Unido y otro en el J.F. Kennedy de Estados Unidos.
💵 Con 16 horas de transmisión en distintos países, se convirtió en uno de los espectáculos musicales más vistos de la historia y logró recaudar más de 100 millones de dólares.
👑 Para muchos es el mejor concierto de todos los tiempos, destacando la presentación de #Queen que se convirtió en la más emblemática de aquel evento.
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1️⃣ #GeorgeMichael#Bono#PaulMcCartney#FreddieMercury y todos los artistas en tarima al cierre del concierto interpretando “Do They Know It's Christmas?”
2️⃣ #TheBoomtownRats (con su líder #BobGeldof organizador del concierto)
3️⃣ #DavidBowie
4️⃣ #JudasPriest
5️⃣ #DireStraits#Sting
6️⃣ #Madonna
7️⃣ #LedZeppelin
8️⃣ #SpandauBallet
9️⃣ #TheWho
🔟 #Queen
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