its weird watching some show where they are explaining the pop band 'wham' has a number one hit in the uk with that irritating song, 'last christmas.'
i knew those guys and girls from wham, it's so weird that they ever made it so big, but george was pretty ambitious and driven. i must admit i loathe their music. 

while they were on the ascent i was playing lou reed and bowie covers in a band called the blue meanines with a bunch of south london misfits. we were no pop stars, we were the opposite, sort of arrogant, ugly, unruly, not a club band but a garage one. we did have one musician who played guitar and guided us through our follies. i am still very good friends with tez. and we had one talented  musician who played keyboards. he's gone on to do amazing things. the rest were more pirate than players. martin von donaldson looked like ziggy but played like keef, mano our intrepid spanish base player who liked the jazz cigarettes. tez was like a sage, he had experience and wisdom, we all looked up to him, even me with my weird outta whack singing, and cavorting. there was no way were were pop star material like those wham boys, but we had a certain mystique and appeal to the more avant garde, a soul and depth. no songs about xmas and broken hearts, just crack baby crack i just want your sex, we were all sneer and spite.

anyways, my memories of wham are fading, i was good friends with both of them especially shirley whom went on to marry martin kemp from that god awful spandu ballet, but when i knew her she was a punk.

yeah, last christmas i gave you my heart.