Click here to view original GIFGIF: Wham-O61 years ago, the executives of Wham-O Inc.
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So, of course, they break the tension by singing Wham!
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When Chris Craymer met Michael and his childhood friend, Wham!
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Andrew Ridgeley penned a heartbreaking tribute to his late Wham!
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Will it be Wham, or will it be The Pogues?
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Grim forecasts from Applied Materials and Nvidia wham chip stocks .
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But it was their success with their duo group Wham!
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Adding Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou to Wham!
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From the enormous success he achieved with pop duo Wham!
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Mr. Wham said he doesn't believe he did anything wrong.
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Michael, who first gained fame with Andrew Ridgeley in Wham!
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Apparently, for other people, that sentiment is targeted at Wham!
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I know, I'll start with the blond hair from my Wham!
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However, along with success came difficult times for the former Wham!
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And yes, the movie is actually inspired by the 1984 Wham!
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The musician first shot to fame with the 1980s duo Wham!
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Had enough of the "Wham, bam, thank you...hot damn!" attractions?
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Mr. Vaughan said that "Wham!" was the first record he bought.
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Of course, there had indelible rumors since the heyday of Wham!
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I not only hope that the project gets funded and you receive your Wham-O Frisbee Sonic in the mail, but also that your Wham-O Frisbee Sonic is loads of fun and good for your dog.
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Though he had several short-lived flings with women while in Wham!
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A single earring in the right ear, and wham — you were broadcasting.
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"Careless Whisper" with Smokey Robinson (1985) Though he was still in Wham!
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It also seems unlikely that she'd be respectful for years, then — wham!
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In another instance of perfectly matched singer and material, Swift's wistful Wham!
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And the crowd gathered had only positive memories about the former Wham!
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The British singer came to prominence with the male pop duo Wham!
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Author Lu Jun, who was one of the 15,000 people at Wham!
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I turned and looked in the other direction, and about then -- 'wham!
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George Michael, famed pop star and former member of 80s group Wham!
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Herrine: The acidity, the tanginess, it's like, wham, bam, in your face.
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He will forever be tied to Christmas, as the mastermind behind Wham!
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The artist, who became famous in the 1980s in the duo Wham!
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So in the L.G.C.S. corner we have, like, "Last Christmas" by Wham!
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If you're trying to avoid hearing "Last Christmas" to win The Wham!
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English singer/songwriter Andrew Redgeley was half of the '80s pop group Wham!
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Jesse and the Rippers didn't peddle Guns N' Roses-esque rock or Wham!
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"We didn't know where she was," race organizer Ellen Brenner-Boutillier told WHAM.
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George, Andrew, and Shirlie changed my life by choosing me to join Wham!
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Photographer Chris Craymer – who worked with Michael in the early days of Wham!
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Then WHAM, big box of live crickets dumped on her head and lap.
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"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," released in May 000, was Wham!
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But strange it was in April 1985, when the British pop duo Wham!
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Muñoz sang the former WHAM frontman's song "Praying for Time" for his audition.
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Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham!
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"As an artist, you want to reach as many people as possible," Wham!
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The song that launched 1,000 covers, but nothing beats the original by Wham!
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Following Carey's hit, Spotify's most-streamed Christmas songs include "Last Christmas" by Wham!
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Friends who spoke to WHAM remembered Kane and Burrow as unique and caring individuals.
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Wham added that it would be "interesting to see" how the challenge turned out.
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The first Wham-O Frisbees of the 217s were, at the time, mere toys.
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Signorelli von Braunhut elaborated about what happened after the Wham-O Instant Fish disaster.
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" Becerra, he said, "had been fine, and then it was like a switch, wham.
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"I love her, and I would do anything for her family," he told WHAM.
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British pop singer George Michael, who shot to fame in the 1980s with Wham!
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It's important to have that before you have your wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am.
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You, WHAM, get to hear it from me: You've hit all of the categories. Bingo!
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Those in attendance at the service included ex Kenny Goss, boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, and Wham!
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Ex-Wham singer and solo artist George Michael has died at the age of 53.
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Chicago Cubs fans Pam Noie and Janet Wham are experiencing some nervous excitement, it seems.
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Jolovan Wham, an activist, was jailed after organizing a public assembly from a Facebook page.
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In its very spareness Women and Power gains some wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am appeal.
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British singer Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham!
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Michael narrates the program, which contains unseen interviews that span his singing career in Wham!
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Even though Michael had a string of hits under his belt when he left Wham!
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The singer left behind a catalogue of hits, including "Careless Whisper" and "Faith," and Wham!
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Murphy told WHAM she called the police but wouldn't let the man in her house.
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Christmas has arrived early this year, in the form of a 4K remaster of Wham!
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"We just heard 'wham' and the three-story building was reduced to rubble," he said.
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Owen&aposs grandmother hasn&apost given up hope that he is alive, according to WHAM-TV.
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What I'd love more, however, is for Wham-O to make something completely new and incredible.
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I recently re-watched The Parent Trap and wham, just like that, I figured it out.
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Sade's jazz-infused "Sweetest Taboo" at Miraval in 1985 and the original album version of WHAM!
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As Corden belted out the lyrics to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," by Wham!
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The son of a Greek restaurateur, he grew up in Kingsbury, London, and met his Wham!
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Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, the singer catapulted to fame in the 1980s in the duo Wham!
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"We'll probably hold up cards with words like 'stomp' and 'bam' and 'wham," Ms. Elwell said.
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The song comes seven years since Michael released his last material and 35 years after Wham!
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Jolovan Wham, a Singaporean activist, was found guilty of organising a public assembly without a permit.
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That theory is also a nod to the song "Last Christmas" by the '143s band Wham!
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He also did product promotions for Hula Hoop creator Wham-O, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Kodak.
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Murphy told WHAM she hopes her story can inspire confidence in others, regardless of their age.
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They formed a band in their teens, hustled for years and broke out with the Wham!
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The church organ at the beginning of that "Faith" video is playing the chorus of Wham!
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I wanted to preserve my love for George in the pastel and neon shades of Wham!
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If a nominee reaches the magic number based on first choice, then wham-bam, she's a nominee.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Street artist Pegasus has paid tribute to George Michael with a mural of the Wham!
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It is a typical story, says Jolovan Wham of HOME, a charity that works with migrant workers.
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Wham-O's product was actually African killifish, which were supposed to come back to life when rehydrated.
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The idea took off almost instantly — 25 million Wham-O Hula Hoops were sold within four months.
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Further assisting this line of reasoning is the classic song "Last Christmas" from the '80s band Wham!
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Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, he once played music on the London underground train system before forming Wham!
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Likewise, New England could exploit rookie defensive tackle Ed Oliver's aggressiveness with trap/wham run schemes. 2.
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More than 90 dancers will be dressed in iconic "Choose Life" shirts, fluorescent outfits inspired by Wham!
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Even if you never paid much attention to Wham or Michael before this, Freedom should prove enlightening.
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You're browsing the web, open a tab here, click a link there, and wham: Watchcartoons wants to 🔔!
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Although the group was still at this point, this album didn't produce the kind of hits the Wham!
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What A Mess Hey WHAM, Over the past few weeks, I've gotten a bunch of letters about cheating.
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Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) launched his music career in the 1980s as a band member of Wham!
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She was referenced in The Beatles' song "Dig It," Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" and Wham!
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If one thing drives this home, it's what the Clinton campaign clearly hopes will be its wham line.
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Axel's brother, Rich Steenburg, also was in the limo, their aunt Jessica Andrews confirmed to CNN affiliate WHAM.
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But if you think of a sock as a punch, the "Sound from a sock" would be WHAM.
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Directed by Adult Swim regular Alan Resnick, a member of Baltimore-based artist collective, Wham City (read about Wham City in our article "Here's Why It's Great to Join a Creative Collective"), the film captures a birthday party gone awry when teenage daughter Madison won't stop lying facedown on the ground.
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The last time the pound was this low against the dollar, television viewers were glued to Dynasty and Wham!
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I clicked "Autofill" and wham: 44 songs—3 hours, 49 minutes of music—zapped life back into my shuffle.
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Singapore authorities charged human rights activist Jolovan Wham in late November for organising public assemblies without a police permit.
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Michael, born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, launched his decades-long music career in the '80s as a member of Wham!
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More often than not, I tell myself, These look like they need just one more minute, and then wham!
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Late in November, Singapore authorities charged human rights activist Jolovan Wham for organizing public assemblies without a police permit.
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The judge in charge of the case, however, has not provided grounds of his decision, Wham wrote on Twitter.
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A nervous child prone to bouts of sentimentality, Christmas felt custom-built to bring on tears, and the Wham!
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The memorial, located on Long Pier on Seneca Lake, was installed in September 2016, according to CNN affiliate WHAM.
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"Last Christmas," for its part, is a quintessentially '80s song, complete with a an unforgettable music video featuring Wham!
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Michael, born in London in 1963 as Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, first rose to acclaim as part of the duo Wham!.
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After Mack gained eight yards on a tight-end wham, two runs behind H-back Ryan Hewitt moved the chains.
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Adele sang "Fastlove" as a tribute to George Michael at the Grammys, but on Wednesday it was his band Wham!
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Could you just select the "right" variants of the 52 intelligence genes, and wham-o, we have our next Einstein?
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But many on social media disagreed with Wham, saying that the workers might have been in need of spare cash.
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If that or Clarke's past illness has anything to do with a certain cardiac-themed line in the eponymous Wham!
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I wanted the "Debut product sold by the Wham-O toy company" to somehow be Frisbee, but it's the SLINGSHOT.
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Wham faced similar charges of organizing public assemblies without police permits and refusing to sign statements under the Penal Code.
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"He would like to express solidarity from Hong Kong civil society with Wham, and to thank him for his bravery."
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"Wham bam thank ya glam," Lizzo wrote on Instagram, while tagging her hairstylist, Shelby Swain and makeup artist Alexx Mayo.
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SF When I got discovered — like "wham!" and just stepped into a television series — I couldn't see enough to dream.
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I always talk about the Wham City scene having roots much closer to the American new wave — Talking Heads, Devo.
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The group's manager at the time, Simon Napier-Bell, said it took 18 months to negotiate the two performances on Wham!
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A fist pulled back for a punch, WHAM, and a body flying; these are the hallmarks of a classic action comic.
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"And that's when it struck me I was in the half marathon instead of the 5k," Rodriguez-Espada told CNN affiliate WHAM.
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They're just 'Wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, here comes a pretty girl, there goes a car chase, let's shoot a helicopter down.
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"Malaysia's judges are more independent than Singapore's for cases with political implications," wrote Jolovan Wham, an activist, on Facebook on April 27th.
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George Michael's ex-boyfriend Fadi Fawaz has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of aggravated criminal damage after allegedly trashing the late Wham!
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The service center first opened on Wednesday morning but was closed by Henrietta's building inspector that afternoon, according to WHAM-TV's report.
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With pin-up good looks and soulful voice Michael burst onto the pop scene in the 1980s as one half of Wham!
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I would leaf through the illustrations by Igor Yershov, listen to Wham, drink a strawberry shake and eat a Big Boy burger.
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Michael himself fed into this idea; almost as a kind of metaphor for the self-hating gay man, he denigrated his Wham!
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First I was looking at those cute, grainy printouts from my OB/GYN, and started dreaming of baby names, and then WHAM!
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He sold it to Wham-O, a toy company based then in San Gabriel, which rolled out its first batch on Jan.
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The experimental visual artist, comedian, and founder of Baltimore's Wham City Comedy felt the Bern and posted corresponding emojis to his Twitter account.
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Tributes also poured in from the music world on Monday as the British pop star, who rose to fame with the duo Wham!
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"The last thing you expected to happen was for someone like Princess Margaret to land into that Bohemain world — and wham, she did."
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A character in a sitcom that I wrote was driving George Michael to a meeting for Comic Relief, and we were singing Wham!
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But at the bottom of the steps to his driveway, he lost his balance in the storm and fell, CNN affiliate WHAM reported.
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The key document from this era is The Choir Inside (Wham City, 2009), which consists mostly of lo-fi a cappella field recordings.
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George Michael was one of the artists listed—I remember reading an interview from a while back where you mentioned listening to Wham!
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In it we see how Michael correctly anticipated that music videos and touring was the way to success, and that's how he and Wham!
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Videos posted to Instagram by Mario Lopez, also a guest, show the couple dancing to "Never Gonna Give You Up" as well as Wham!
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The first death in the county was reported Tuesday, a 22020-year-old man who worked at Rochester General Hospital, ABC affiliate WHAM reported.
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"Wham, Sam, dig them gams," Louis Jordan sings in the 1947 musical film "Reet, Petite and Gone" before the camera ogles Ms. Lee's legs.
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Well, the film was directed by Alan Resnick and Ben O'Brien, who both belong to the Baltimore-based art and performance Collective Wham City.
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That's why it was imperative to get his blessing before making a movie inspired by one of his most famous songs — "Last Christmas," by Wham!.
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The truck is still pulling hard at this point, charging up the speedometer until — WHAM — you smack into the speed limiter like a brick wall.
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Wham will be sentenced on January 53 and faces a fine of up to S$5,000 or a jail term of up to three years.
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Meanwhile, the channel will also begin to stream live sporting events from the Adventure Sports Network, COMBT GO, EDGEsport, Stadium and Wham Network, among others.
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I was quite star-struck at the time because I grew up with Wham and their music; he was one of my first teenage crushes.
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And then that last one, it just looked good from the moment it left her hand, and I was going, 'Wham, bam, can of ham!
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According to local station 13 WHAM, firefighters first responded to the scene at around 10 AM when they received reports that residents were having trouble breathing.
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Despite the stories of Michael's admitted drug use and the rumors surrounding his sudden death, the crowd gathered had only positive memories about the former Wham!
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You basically slip it into a special undershirt with a pocket at the base of the neck, connect to an app, hit a button, and wham.
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The coroner said that there was no need for further inquiries into the death of Michael, 53, who rose to stardom in the 1980s with Wham!
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On November 26, 2016, Wham organized an indoor forum called "Civil Disobedience and Social Movements" at a small event space inside a shopping mall in Singapore.
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That's one of the untold stories about Google people forget is, they think Google did search, and they'd gone to advertising and wham, it took off.
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Bubble Wrap is a trademark of Sealed Air, Frisbee remains a trademark of Wham-O, and Velcro is trademarked by the company of the same name.
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That didn't last, but they continued to make music together — nearly all of it composed and sung by Mr. Michael — and began releasing singles as Wham!
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In addition to Boy George, tributes have been pouring in from the rest of the music world for Michael, who rose to fame with the duo Wham!
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"Thelma's case made it to court because it was so egregious," Wham said, adding that HOME was approached by an average of 20 domestic helpers a week.
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"In bands that survive a long time, there's often an agreement to disagree," says Simon Napier-Bell, a manager of multiple bands, including the Yardbirds and Wham!
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Around the same time, the big-time toy company of the day, Wham-O, started selling a similar product called Instant Fish, which was an immediate dud.
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The 23-year-old from New York felt compelled to help when his girlfriend, Ashley Turcotte, told him about her father's many health problems, he told WHAM.
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The opening is a wham: A man appears from the fog and holds the hero aloft by his foot, thus turning his life upside down, as well.
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In addition to the talk last November talk with Mr. Wong on social movements, Mr. Wham also held a "silent protest" on the Singapore subway in June.
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Then all hell broke loose: --- Marco Rubio, desperate to stay relevant in the race, hit front-runner Donald Trump on pretty much everything: immigration (wham!), health care (boom
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Shari McCollough of Indiana introduces us to a harem, imitates a mating dance and discusses what she calls the "wham, bam, thank you, ma'am" nature of chicken sex.
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He would pick her up on weekends and drive her around on his Vespa, and they would dance badly to Wham in "a nice discothèque" by the cathedral.
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Despite being advised by the police to obtain a permit prior to the event, Wham proceeded without said consent, according to a statement by the Singapore Police Force.
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Jolovan Wham, 37, was accused of organizing three small gatherings over the past year, including one that featured Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong democracy advocate, speaking by Skype.
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Finally, Murphy grabbed a broom and continued to hit the suspect with it until the intruder was ready to "get the heck out of there," she told WHAM.
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Expect Shanahan to mix in trap runs — inviting Donald upfield only to "wham" block him with a puller — and tosses to the perimeter early to make Donald think.
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The pop-up is a fanboy's dream, with everything from Daft Punk New Era Hats and KWay Jackets to Wham-O Frisbees, Russell Yo-Yo's, and Medicom Toys.
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Another unforgettable night we went to see underground legend Dan Deacon, a founding member of Baltimore's Wham City collective, perform at "Rhino," as the space is known colloquially.
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During a special hour-long BBC Radio 6 show with Shaun Keaveny, which Moss co-hosted, the supermodel revealed that she was a huge fan of Michael's band, Wham!
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It might also be something that was close to a final design, but needed a little test run on Kickstarter so that Wham-O could work out the kinks.
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They pitched the idea to Wham-O, and within a few weeks the spray was on its way to becoming a longtime staple of pranksters and birthday parties.[YouTube]
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"Our laws suppressing free speech are so broad it gives the government arbitrary powers to crackdown on whoever it wants to," Wham said in an email to BuzzFeed News.
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While we don't know exactly what's going down in the summer of 1985 (other than the massive commercial success of Wham!), the account also revealed the upcoming season's episode titles.
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George Michael may not have had a discography to rival his fellow peers like Madonna and Prince — he released only five studio albums as a solo artist; three with Wham!
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"Wham is recalcitrant and has repeatedly shown blatant disregard for the law, especially with regard to organizing or participating in illegal public assemblies", Singapore Police Force said in a statement.
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Dan Wham wants us to smoke weed and drink some more at his apartment after, but it's 1 AM, I don't smoke weed, and I can't stand up now anyway.
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"Wham is recalcitrant and has repeatedly shown blatant disregard for the law, especially with regard to organizing or participating in illegal public assemblies," the police said in a written statement.
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"This is the story of just how fame and tragedy intervened," Michael says in the documentary – according to The Sun – about his personal life during the height of his band Wham!
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We had Brandon Wardell and Kate Berlant and Official Sean Penn and Alan Resnick from Wham City doing a comedy night, but it didn't feel anything like a shitty comedy night.
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"Foreign workers can hardly say no to their bosses because their employment is dependent on the goodwill of their employers," Jolovan Wham of the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics pointed out.
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"The government has never proven that those detained were involved in a conspiracy or were a threat to national security," the activist, Jolovan Wham, told the news website, the Online Citizen.
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Democrats keep saying they want to restore the American dream but, if you dare achieve it and get rich, wham, they are going to snatch most of it away from you.
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Related: Why the 16-Panel Grid Is the Holy Grail of Action Comics How to Scare the Sh*t Out of People, with Comics How to Make Action Comics Go "WHAM!"
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But if there's one song that everyone can agree on, the musical equivalent of soldiers laying down arms for a post- Top of the Pops kickabout, it's "Last Christmas" by Wham!.
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Florida Georgia Line and Nelly would have wanted me to stay up and smoke a little, drink a little, spend some time with the boys, hang with guys like Dan Wham.
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Willie Murphy said she was getting ready for bed Thursday night when a man began pounding on her door, urging her to call an ambulance for him, CNN affiliate WHAM reported.
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Hosted by Wham City Comedy, a comedy night featured comedians of all types, experimental, alternative, and classic, bringing their all to a crowd full of sweaty, happy people intent on enjoying themselves.
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We had done a sketch for a charity at home called Comic Relief back in 2010 where part of the sketch involved me and George Michael in a car singing Wham songs.
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A new Tesla service center in Henrietta, New York, was temporarily shut down by the city's building inspector after failing to get an inspection, the local ABC News affiliate WHAM-TV reported.
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"Walking through that front door is like: Wham," said Ms. Knudsen, who was in awe of the 34-foot-high ceilings, across a 25-foot-wide expanse without a single vertical column.
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"Prosecuting Jolovan Wham for holding peaceful gatherings demonstrates the absurdity of Singapore's laws on public assemblies and the government's willingness to penalize those who speak out," its deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said.
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You come across a bunch of papalo , a leafy herb native to central Mexico, and toss it in your mouth (your tastes are expansive; a papalo leaf is nothing to you) and wham!
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Indianapolis ran inside zone, outside zone, split zone, iso lead, power (sometimes with a pulling guard, sometimes a pulling tackle), counter, trap/wham and a few pin-and-pull schemes — almost all before halftime.
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Kickstarter used to be a place to donate money to weird art projects, but increasingly, it's becoming the testing ground for larger companies like Wham-O to test the market for half-baked ideas.
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Last Christmas, which stars Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke and Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding, is named for the holiday classic tune of the same name, which Michael sang with his Wham!
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Vietnam '3000 From the early stages of the Vietnam War, American officials insisted that winning the hearts and minds (yes, the acronym was WHAM) of the South Vietnamese people was the key to victory.
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"Best Friends" takes place in a time warp of '80s nostalgia, where Christa McAuliffe hasn't yet taken off into space and the cool kids watch "The A-Team" on television and listen to Wham!
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I should have seen it coming (it is, after all pothole season) but it was a tight merge, in heavy traffic, and by the time I saw the pothole, I was in it. WHAM!
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Mr. Michael was one of pop's reigning stars in the 20143s and '90s — first as a handsome, smiling teen-pop idol making lighthearted singles like "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" with Wham!
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Oh jeez, I forget which one it is now, but there was one that had me like howling, it was some stupid '80s song, it's gonna be something like Wham or Toto or something stupid.
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Five years after Outside was released, the controversial Section 28 — legislation banning the "intentional promotion of homosexuality" in Michael's native UK — was finally repealed, after being introduced in the same year that Wham broke up.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore authorities charged human rights activist Jolovan Wham on Wednesday for organizing public assemblies without a police permit, prompting rights groups to call on the government to guarantee the right to peaceful assembly.
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While people have been playing with hoops of varying materials all throughout history, the modern plastic Hula Hoop was invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr, cofounders of the Wham-O toy company.
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The book was to be called "Answered Prayers," and Capote imagined it going off like a gun: "It's going to come out with a speed and power like you've never seen — wham!" he told People magazine.
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Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Singapore to drop the case against "peaceful protestor" Wham and to amend what it called a "draconian" law on public order to guarantee Singaporeans the right to peaceful assembly.
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The authorities say Mr. Wham did not receive a police permit for the gatherings, a violation of the city-state's Public Order Act that is punishable by fines of up to $3,715 for a first offense.
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"It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period," said the statement which was released by Britain's Thames Valley Police. Wham!
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Wham was involved in a protest in June by several blindfolded activists who held up books on a subway train in a call for justice for 22 people detained in 1987 under a tough internal security law.
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A court in the Southeast Asian city-state this week convicted human rights activist Jolovan Wham of organizing a public assembly via Skype without a permit and refusing to sign his statement when ordered by the police.
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George Michael's trajectory was different, and hinged on an overt effort to move from teen idol status with Wham to being taken seriously – his second solo album was titled Listen Without Prejudice – as a songwriter and record producer.
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" It is not so much what you might think of as a conventional song as it is a cavalcade of Wayne and Pain coming up with successively more beautiful sounding ways to say "damn" and "wham" and "whoa.
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In 22016, a group of New Jersey high schoolers invented Ultimate Frisbee, a sport combining the strategy of football, the athleticism of soccer, and the whirlwind pace of basketball with the unique loftiness of the Wham-O Frisbee.
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"Wham Rap!" was George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's affirmative mission statement for "club men" and "pub men" alike and, to this day, remains a love letter to living life however you want to irrespective of anyone else's opinions.
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"It seems whatever kind of pepper they were using, once its aerosolized, if you've ever gotten pepper in your eyes, you know how hard it can be on your system," the fire department lieutenant, Dana Cieslinski, told 13 WHAM.
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"Prosecuting Jolovan Wham for holding peaceful gatherings demonstrates the absurdity of Singapore's laws on public assemblies and the government's willingness to penalize those who speak out," Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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The 24-year-old singer, who tweeted on March 1 that he was "logging off for a while" and since posted only once following the June massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, shared a touching message about the influence the Wham!
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The 37-year-old Wham, the former executive director of a group advocating the rights of foreign workers in Singapore, could be fined up to $10,000 or imprisoned for up to 6 months, or both, if found guilty of repeat offences.
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Jolovan Wham of the network said although police advised him Wong needed a permit, he and other organizers went ahead anyway as they considered it a "simple discussion about the role of civil disobedience, social movements and civil society activism".
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Though the offerings that followed — stonewashed jeans and matching extra-blouson bomber jackets; mega tweeds and miniskirts; shirred metallic jacquard sheaths and rainbow leathers — largely seemed to describe a cast of stock personality types: the '50s bombshell, the '80s Wham!
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The two posthumously honored artists, both known for provocative performance styles and lyrics, each hit their creative strides in the 1980s - Prince with the blockbuster album and motion picture "Purple Rain" and Michael as part of the British pop duo Wham!
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During the AIDS epidemic, direct action groups like ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and WHAM (Women's Health Action Mobilization) held protests like the legendary "die ins" to protest the Church's inaction and misinformation, particularly as they pertained to safer sex education.
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"I thought it was like a dream, I really didn't know what to think, I was more concerned about his health than I was my own, I really was afraid for him," Paul told WHAM of finding out his daughter's boyfriend was a match.
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" She also had some choice words for the American male: "I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am cretins who just don't give a damn about anyone's gratification but their own.
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Nicomi Stewart told WHAM TV that she was in disbelief after receiving a robocall informing her that her daughter had not arrived at Edison Career and Technology High School — and that instead of correctly pronouncing Nicarri's name, the automated call pronounced it as the N-word.
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Lonnie Mack, a guitarist and singer whose impassioned, fast-picking style on the early 21968s instrumentals "Memphis" and "Wham!" became a model for the blues-rock lead-guitar style and a seminal influence on a long list of British and American artists, died on Thursday in Nashville.
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A rave review of "The Wham of That Memphis Man!" in Rolling Stone magazine in 1968 led to bookings at the Fillmore East and West and a contract with Elektra, where he recorded three albums and played bass guitar on the song "Roadhouse Blues," by the Doors.
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Give it some time, a viral moment or a featured spot on a CW show, and "New Year's Day" should and could, belatedly, become one of her most enduring songs ever – the kind we and our offspring drag out every holiday season alongside the likes of Mariah Carey, Wham!
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Inspired by the classic George Michael (back when he was with Wham!) song, "Last Christmas," Thompson pens a heartwarming relationship story about a struggling singer named Katie (Emilia Clarke) who while working at a year-round Christmas store in London meets the happy-go-lucky Tom (Henry Golding).
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Morey (made by Wham-O) is the quintessential manufacturer of bodyboards, and the intermediate Cruiser model is well worth the price, so don't cheap out and buy anything less, which is bound to snap or get critically waterlogged and end up in the trash sooner rather than later.
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Recently chart-topping songs noted as being on the sadder side of the index included Sam Smith's hit "Stay With Me" and "Unmissable" by Gorgon City, which compares to the prevalence of popular happier songs from the '80s like "Would I Lie to You?" by the Eurythmics, and "Freedom" by Wham!
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In the wake of the online harassment they received over their trip to Malaysia, Han, Thum, and Wham sent a letter of complaint to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong asking that he look into what they say were the false comments made by Seah, the MP, and Shanmugam, the minister, on Facebook.
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He was a man who, four months after being arrested for having sex in a Beverly Hills toilet, released a hit single about shagging, accompanied by a video that features a police helicopter hovering over couples of all sexualities getting it on all over LA. It felt strange, then, that after a moving tribute by Andrew Ridgeley and Wham!
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In 1985, the duo became the first major Western pop group to perform in China as part of its world tour, and Mr. Michael appeared at the Live Aid charity concert, telecast worldwide, joining Elton John to sing Mr. John's song "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me." The worldwide 1984 hit "Careless Whisper," credited in Britain to George Michael solo and to Wham!
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" But anyone who got through the ambient overkill of Culture II without falling asleep should kick meth, and the parodies of the trio here are overdue—"Brain dead, eyedrops/Pain meds, Cyclops/Daybed, iPod/May-back, Maybach" or "Lug nut coaster [actual online-available consumer durable]/Lung jug roaster [set-up]/Young Thug poster [wham]/Unplugged toaster [cool]" even more than the thematic "Hatata batata, why don't we make a bunch of songs about nothin' and mumble 'em.
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