Songoftheday 3/3/14 - They told me marriage was a give and take, well you showed me you can take you've got some giving to do...

Wham! - "Everything She Wants"
from the album Make It Big (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 14

Today's Song of the Day is by the British pop duo Wham!, who "made it big" with their second album, scoring two #1 hits in America in 1984 with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Careless Whisper". For their third American single release the pair put out the sassy and funky "Everything She Wants", a mid-tempo rant against a high-maintenance lover sung with full campy gusto by writer/producer George Michael....

"Everything She Wants" became Wham!'s "hat trick" third #1 pop hit in the U.S. in May of 1985, while also reaching the top-10 on the American dance (#7) and adult contemporary (#4) charts. It crossed over big into R&B radio stations, landing the pair on that format chart at #12. In their native Britain, where it was released at Christmastime, peaked at #2 (behind the phenomenon of the Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single).

It remains probably the most acceptable Wham! single to be fond of today...

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Here's Wham! in concert in China back in 1984...