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“We were killing time around his mom and dad’s house. It was a Sunday afternoon, and the soccer was on TV,” Ridgeley, 61, told The Post. “And George disappeared upstairs he had a little Fostex four-track recording studio, which used a cassette tape to record four tracks onto. And came back about an hour later and said, ‘Andy, Andy, you gotta come upstairs and listen to this!’”What Ridgley heard “written on the spot” was the beginning of the “Last Christmas ” journey to 40 years of festive feels.
“It was going to be the icing on the cake for 1984. That was the intended purpose,” said Ridgeley. “When we were growing up in the ’70s, the Christmas No. 1 was a really big deal.”But, he added, “It was a challenge for George as a songwriter to write within prescribed parameters… And to write with such originality as well — the story of a love betrayed.”
“It was largely group of friends that we enjoyed time with back in England, and so it was natural to take them away to shoot a video that basically was a house party,” said Ridgeley. “You take a bunch of 21 year olds away and you give them free lodging, food and drink, you’re gonna have a bit of a party on your hands.”
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