Wham! - Freedom (Part Time Love Extended Mix) Vinyl
"Freedom" is a song by British pop duo Wham! in 1984, becoming the group's second number one on the UK Singles Chart. It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo.
The song finds George Michael telling a girl that he wants to fully commit to her, and not have one of those relationships where they can see other people.
When Wham! went to China in April, 1985, they became the first Western Pop act to play a concert in that country. While there is absolutely nothing political about the song, footage from the trip was used to make a music video for the track, implying a more global meaning of the title.
The video opens with about a minute of the band talking under clips of the Chinese people and the countryside. Wham! was one of the biggest acts on MTV at the time, but the network, fearing the short attention spans of their viewers, wanted to cut out the intro (this was before Michael Jackson changed the game with “Thriller”). The band’s manager, Simon Napier-Bell, refused, and MTV ended up airing the full video. Napier-Bell apparently found the negotiations with MTV much easier than those with the Chinese government.
In an interview with the Christmas 2009 issue of THE BIG ISSUE, Michael said of this song, that when he wrote it he knew he had arrived: “When I was 19, I wrote Freedom – the original version – and I thought, ‘I can’t believe I’ve just done that!’ I was absolutely thrilled. Because until then I had no real understanding of my abilities, but with Freedom, I started to take myself seriously as a writer.”
Видео Wham! - Freedom (Part Time Love Extended Mix) Vinyl канала The Vinyl Revival
The song finds George Michael telling a girl that he wants to fully commit to her, and not have one of those relationships where they can see other people.
When Wham! went to China in April, 1985, they became the first Western Pop act to play a concert in that country. While there is absolutely nothing political about the song, footage from the trip was used to make a music video for the track, implying a more global meaning of the title.
The video opens with about a minute of the band talking under clips of the Chinese people and the countryside. Wham! was one of the biggest acts on MTV at the time, but the network, fearing the short attention spans of their viewers, wanted to cut out the intro (this was before Michael Jackson changed the game with “Thriller”). The band’s manager, Simon Napier-Bell, refused, and MTV ended up airing the full video. Napier-Bell apparently found the negotiations with MTV much easier than those with the Chinese government.
In an interview with the Christmas 2009 issue of THE BIG ISSUE, Michael said of this song, that when he wrote it he knew he had arrived: “When I was 19, I wrote Freedom – the original version – and I thought, ‘I can’t believe I’ve just done that!’ I was absolutely thrilled. Because until then I had no real understanding of my abilities, but with Freedom, I started to take myself seriously as a writer.”
Видео Wham! - Freedom (Part Time Love Extended Mix) Vinyl канала The Vinyl Revival
Показать
Комментарии отсутствуют
Информация о видео
Другие видео канала
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper (Extended Remix) UK 12" VinylPaul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (7" Single) VinylWhen In Rome - The Promise (O.N. Mix) VinylABC - Poison Arrow (New Re-mix) US 12" VinylWet Wet Wet - Sweet Little Mystery (12" Version) UK 12" VinylRick James - Give It To Me Baby (12" Vocal) US 12" VinylPato Banton Featuring Ali & Robin Campbell Of UB40 - Baby Come Back (UK 12") VinylA ha - Take On Me (Long Version) German 12″ VinylAgnetha Fältskog - I Won't Let You Go (Extended Re-Mix Version) UK 12" VinylM|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume (Remix) UK 12" VinylShannon - Let The Music Play (Special Remix) Germany 12″ VinylKim Wilde - Kids In America (Germany 12") VinylPaul McCartney & Michael Jackson – Say Say Say (Special Version) US 12" VinylThe Human League - Keep Feeling Fascination (Extended Version) Greece 12" VinylSoft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (UK" 12) VinylBilly Idol - White Wedding (Parts 1 And 2) US 12" VinylPat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield (Extended Version) Europe 12" VinylMadonna - True Blue (The Color Mix) VinylShania Twain - Dance With The One That Brought You (US 7" Single) VinylThe Housemartins - Caravan Of Love UK 7" VinylA-ha - The Living Daylights (Extended Version) Vinyl