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The song, which has nothing to do with the sort of music Wham! popularized, is wannabe hair metal in the vein of Skid Row or Warrant, replete with bombastic Mutt Lange-ish production and dive-bomb guitar soloing (most assuredly not played by Ridgeley himself). In fact, watching the video for his would-be hit “Shake,” it is rather startling to see him actually sing and seemingly play. It did little to shore up his musical reputation. Then, perhaps because he was contractually obligated, Ridgeley recorded a solo album in 1990, the widely ignored Son of Albert, featuring his brother Paul on percussion. While Michael was soaring to ever greater fame on the strength of Faith, Ridgeley spent several years as a layabout Lothario.
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In this 1984 TV interview, Ridgeley claimed he hoped he could “retire with grace,” but this did not immediately seem destined to be. Instead, he tended to bounce around stage like a tween hopped up on too many jellybeans, while occasionally striking faux-sexy poses that make the Jonas Brothers seem risqué. Though Ridgeley was occasionally seen wearing a guitar, he was rarely seen playing it, even during actual Wham! concerts. Is this entirely fair? The official biography of the band tends to credit Ridgeley for nothing musical, only for taking the pudgy, unpopular Michael under his wing at Bushey Meads School in Hertfordshire when they were teenagers, and for perhaps guiding the duo’s fashion sense (though its evolution was more likely the brainchild of Wham!’s shrewd manager, Simon Napier-Bell) while Michael was busy writing and singing all the songs. It would seem that time has not been particularly kind to “the other guy in Wham!” The always enigmatic Ridgeley has gone from being one half of the world’s most successful pop duo in the 1980s to a punch line on Family Guy.