Because most of the day was spent on Wham Rap and Ridgeley's mother had returned home by that point, Careless Whisper had to be recorded in one take very quickly.
The original demo was recorded in 1981 alongside those for Club Tropicana and Wham Rap in the front room of Ridgeley's home (his parents’ lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with a hired TEAC 4-track Portastudio. They continued to work together on the song and lyrics both at Michael's house in Radlett, and Shirlie Holliman's aunt's basement flat in Peckham where Ridgeley was living at the time. Īndrew Ridgeley came up with the chord sequence on his Fender Telecaster he had received for his 18th birthday. "Careless Whisper" was us dancing, because we danced a lot, and the idea was – we are dancing. I did feel guilty about the first girl – and I have seen her since – and the idea of the song was about her. The whole time I thought I was being cool, being this two-timer, but there really wasn't that much emotion involved. Jane found out about her and got rid of me. But I started another relationship with a girl called Alexis without finishing the one with Jane. The whole idea of "Careless Whisper" was the first girl finding out about the second – which she never did. And I remember my sisters used to give me a hard time because they found out and they really liked the first girl. I thought I was being smart – I had gone from being a total loser to being a two-timer. So I went out with her for a couple of months but I didn't stop seeing Helen.
"And the girl who didn't even see me when I was twelve invited me in", he noted. Michael observed that after he stopped wearing glasses, he began getting invited to parties. She invited me in one day when I was waiting for my lift and I was. By this time she was that much older and a big buxom thing – and eventually I started seeing her. Then we played a school disco with The Executive and she saw me singing and decided she fancied me. It was a few years later and I looked a lot different. And one day I saw her walk down the path next to me and I thought – now where did SHE come from? She didn't know it was me. She had moved in right next to where I used to stand and wait for my next-door neighbour, who used to give me a lift home from school. It had just started to cool off a bit when I discovered that the blonde girl from Queensway had moved in just around the corner from my school. "A few years later, when I was sixteen, I had my first relationship with a girl called Helen", Michael continued. My sister used to go and do what she wanted when we got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this girl Jane."
I was a fat boy in glasses and I had a big crush on her - though I didn't stand a chance. "There was a girl there with long blond hair whose name was Jane. "When I was twelve, thirteen, I used to have to chaperone my sister, who was two years older, to an ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. I worked on it for about three months in my head." I remember I was handing the money over to the guy on the bus and I got this line, the sax line. It always happens on journeys.With "Careless Whisper" I remember exactly where it first came to me, where I came up with the sax line. I have always written on buses, trains and in cars. Michael wrote, "I was on my way to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote "Careless Whisper". Michael explained in his autobiography, Bare, that he conceptualized "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. In 1981, Michael was working as a DJ in the Bel Air restaurant near Bushey, Hertfordshire. Problems playing this file? See media help. The composition features a distinctive tenor sax solo performed by Steve Gregory.
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