Hit Parade: The Imperial Elton and George Edition
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George Michael and Andrew Ridgley's Young Guns
Apply for Apple Card now in the Wallet app on iPhone and start growing your daily cash with savings today. George Michael formed Wham with his secondary school Chum Andrew Ridgley while they were still teenagers. Like Elton John more than a decade earlier, George Michael was an enormous fan and assimilator of American music,. including not just R&B, but the then-new genre, Hip Hop. Young Guns was the first of four straight British top tens for Wham - which made even heavier use of Michael's raps.
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