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Here’s #11 on our Top 25 Christmas Songs: Last Christmas, George Michael, 1984, is a song by the British Pop Duo, Wham! • The duo, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, was visiting Michael’s parents at Christmas in 1983. Michael wrote the song in just a few hours alone in his childhood bedroom • The original recording was made the following August in London. Michael decorated the studio to set the mood, also performing every instrument on the track • The duo donated all of their royalties made in 1984 to relief efforts for the Ethiopian Famine • In 2012 in a UK-wide poll it was voted 8th for the Nation’s Favourite Christmas Song • It was the most played Christmas Song of the 21st Century in the UK until being overtaken by Fairytale of New York in 2015 • It was released in the US in 2014 • This image best represents today’s the calm before the storm. Snow is on the way tomorrow and Saturday! • Happy Holidays, my friends!