The Edge of Heaven – Wham (1986)

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Additional information about this Wham vinyl art.

Wham – The Artist/s

Wham were an English musical duo formed by school friends George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. After three successful albums Wham became one of the most successful pop acts of the 1980s. They made a highly publicised 10-day visit to China, the first by a Western pop group and sold more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. George Michael was  keen to create music targeted at a more sophisticated adult market rather than the duo’s primarily teenage audience, and therefore split to continue working as a solo artist.

The Edge of Heaven – The Song

The Edge of Heaven is a song by English pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in 1986. It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo, and was promoted in advance as Wham!’s farewell single. The single, a five-minute tale of emotional and physical frustration within a relationship, featured a guest appearance by the duo’s friend Elton John on piano. The song became Wham!’s fourth No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and their final US top-ten hit.
Michael has said the lyrics to the song were “deliberately and overtly sexual, especially the first verse”. The reason for this, he says, was he thought no one would care “because no one listens to a Wham! lyric. It had got to that stage.” Epic released a double record set in the UK, with an updated version of Wham!’s early signature song “Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)” on the flip of disc one, and two new songs—”Battlestations” and a cover of the Was (Not Was) song “Where Did Your Heart Go?”—on the flip-side of the second disc. “Where Did Your Heart Go?” was later given an equal billing and reached the UK Top 40 as a result.

George Micheal – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the side profile of George Michael wearing his distinctive crucifix earring that he wore at the time. A crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning ‘(one) fixed to a cross’) is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for ‘body’). The crucifix is a principal symbol for many groups of Christians, and one of the most common forms of the Crucifixion in the arts.

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