Wham Last Christmas 30th Anniversary Ltd Ed 12" single RSD 2014 Color NM Vinyl

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Wham!

Last Christmas

30th Anniversary

Limited Edition 12" Single

Record Store Day 2014

Color Vinyl

Columbia Records ?88875042911  12" 33.3 rpm 2014 (USA)

Wham!‘s Last Christmas is arguably the best Christmas single EVER. It is the fun of the early 1980s distilled into a seemingly effortless pop song that was played everywhere at the time; school discos, supermarkets, on the radio (of course) and obviously every Christmas party. It was the perfect sign-off to the best year pop music has seen (1984) and it sold well over a million copies making it apparently the biggest selling number two of all time in the UK (Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas kept if off the top spot).

Ears do not normally deceive and Last Christmas sounded like a classic on first listen. George Michael had the midas touch during those 12 months having delivered Careless Whisper in July (bookended by Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and Freedom!!) and now Last Christmas in December. Just like chart sparring partners Frankie Goes To Hollywood George Michael was oh-so-close to bagging four number one singles in 1984.

It looks fantastic. The record comes in a transparent plastic sleeve with the title, artist and Record Store Day logo on a sticker. The twelve-inch record is appropriately Christmassy, pressed on green and red translucent vinyl and the typefaces are correct and of-the-era. A 12?x 12? insert provides all the artwork with the familiar photos of George and Andrew Ridgeley larking around, as well as lyrics.

The A-side of this new anniversary twelve-inch is the standard seven-inch version of Last Christmas while the B-side is a previously unreleased instrumental version of the song. It’s actually rather surprising that the instrumental is previously unreleased because unprolific George was always shoving instrumental versions of A-sides on the flip-side of Wham! singles (this was the case for all the previous Make It Big singles – including Careless Whisper). I guess the fact that Last Christmas was a double A-side with Everything She Wants was the only thing that stopped this happening for the fourth  single in a row. Incidentally, the new instrumental does still have the backing vocals in place which is quite cool when you’re singing along.

Tracklist
A Last Christmas 4:27
B Last Christmas (Instrumental) 4:27

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
Copyright (c) – Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited

A&R – Jeff James, Michael Duquette
Arranged By, Producer – George Michael
Written-By – George Michael

This release marks the 30th anniversary of "Last Christmas".

Track B: previously unreleased instrumental version.

Limited to 3,000 copies. Issued in clear plastic sleeve with flap on top, rectangular sticker on top.

Vinyl in a heavy vinyl protective sleeve with full color hard card insert sheet is NEW and SEALED