THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
991-Wham!-Club Tropicana.
1983-Number 4 single.
Best Bit-At 0.28. Fancy being constantly surrounded by beautiful bikini clad girls, and not appreciating it.
‘Club Tropicana’ is one of only a few songs in the Wham! catalogue that gives Andrew Ridgeley a co-writing credit, as it was written as far back as 1981, before the band was legally established (see also best songs 342 and 142.) In the early days of their musical collaboration George Michael, and Andrew Ridgeley co-wrote home demos, and this song was the second one they composed, the first being ‘Wham Rap!’
The songs famous video was shot at ‘Pikes Hotel,’ a luxury hotel in Ibiza, it was opened on the Island in 1978, by it’s owner Tony Pike, who appears in the video, he is the gentleman with the moustache, and can be first seen at 0.38. The two girls shown flirting with Michael, and Ridgeley are Dee C. Lee, and Shirlie Holliman, who were the bands backing singers at that time. Dee C. Lee would go on to marry Paul Weller, and Shirley Holliman would marry Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet.
‘Let me take you to the place, where membership’s a smiling face.
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