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“It was a dull, boring Sunday in 1984 and we were just passing the time,” Andrew Ridgeley recalls of the day Wham! bandmate George Michael wrote Last Christmas. While Andrew watched football on the TV

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Christmas is… a really good time to spend time with family and see people’s faces when they open gifts. Christmas, when you’ve lost people, is never the most fun, but I try not to be the Grinch. Which