Extended Play

Wham! - Make It Big

Extended Play: Wham! – Make It Big

In the autumn of 1984, two of the year’s hottest acts released albums a week apart. With the furore over Relax and Two Tribes yet to die down and Frankie Say having replaced Choose Life as the year’s essential T-shirt slogan, the clamour for Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasure Dome was enormous by the time it was finally unleashed at the end of October. One week later it was followed into the shops by Make It Big, Wham!’s second long player and an altogether more concise set than Frankie’s sprawling dΓ©but. read more