Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Late George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley formed Wham in 1980 and hit fame with their debut album in 1983 and the second album just got bigger. By the time George was already willing to go solo and do more serious music but third album was released, including Careless whisper that was nothing but his first solo effort, in true Diana Ross and the Supremes split style. Someday we'll be together.... not. Curious fact is the song is written by the guys when they were just 17... I never cared for George's solo stuff to be honest but Wham was fun. And comes around every Christmas again.  Check out also

The Temptations would take this song to #1 and win three Grammys in 1973 with it, but it was originally recorded by another Motown group: The Undisputed Truth in 1971. Their  original version only went to #63, and pretty much forgotten these days as the Temps made it theirs so well.  Anyways, this is a real weird single track as even the single mix almost 7 minutes long, and the album one over 12 minutes! It also has four different lead vocalists and the instruments keep changing and variating.  It would also be The Temptations fourth #1 and also the last. In UK this went to #14.    Countless cover versions have been recorded and performed throughout the decades, including Bill "Wolf" Wolfer with backing vocals by Michael Jackson, Issac Hayes with Soul II Soul's Charlotte Kelly,   Seal , Was (Not Was) , George Michael , Craig David and many others. Run-D.M-C sampled it to their Papa Crazy as did Montenegrin Eurovision star Knez in Autom...

No doubt Mixalis Hatzigiannis is a superstar in Greece and his native Cyprus. His career took off from Eurovision 1998 with Genesi when he was just 19 ( in 1995 he wasn't that lucky yet) but these days he doesn't seem that keen on Eurovision. Oikotimes writes he has said "no thanks" three times to Greece and twice to Cyprus. At least. In 2007 he may have originally said "yes" to come to Helsinki 2007 as a composer but demanded George Michael to sing the song!? Now that would have been something! Then again 2010 ERT was after him but money came in between those plans. The year after, in 2011 he apparently just said "No". But in 2010 and 2011 also CyBC was after him but once again it all fell flat because of money. Or so the story goes.... I would love to see him back in Eurovision if he ever has a change of heart as he has matured a fantastic songwriter and performer. And he has once again a new single/video out, Tharros h alitheia .