Title: Number 1 today in 1984: George Michael – Careless Whisper
Headings: Number 1 today in 1984: George Michael – Careless Whisper
Number 1 today in 1984: George Michael – Careless Whisper
2: Agadoo – Black Lace
3: Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
4: Hazell Dean – Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)
5: Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It
This time last year…

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If fans were put off by Andrew ’s absence, they didn’t show it – record shops (where you had to go to buy singles in those days) couldn’t stick it fast enough. It spent three weeks at Number 1 and ended up in the Top 5 sellers of 1984. Appearing on the band’s Make It Big album, Careless Whisper was credited to Wham! in some countries, including the US, where it also topped the charts, but any casual observer could tell you that things were soon to change for Wham! for ever. In the end, it took two more years and three more Number 1s before Wham! properly called it a day in summer 1986. But to the fans buying Careless Whisper, that crushing news was yet to come. In the memorable, impossibly glamorous video, George is the very picture of heartbreak as he laments those “guilty feet” of his and holds on to a lot of rope. And across the UK, and indeed the globe, millions of hearts broke with him.