Wham - Make It Big • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

They look like a Gleem ad; George Michael's music is an unabashed rehash of Motown; and no one seems to know what exactly Andrew Ridgely does. No matter: Make It Big is an almost flawless pop record, a record that does exactly what it wants to and has a great deal of fun doing it. Sure, it's slight stuff and too thinly orchestrated at times, but George Michael can write and sing rings around fellow teen dream Simon Le Bon. He may be less soulful than Boy George (remember, we're talking British white boys only) but he's got a much wider range, from rumbly bass to keening falsetto, which he uses to first-rate effect on "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."

As a songwriter and performer,
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